4,958 results
1969ref. 148268Paris: Cocinor 1969. Collection of 17 vintage black-and-white French lobby cards from the 1969 film. As a theater group prepares for a production of Racine's "Andromanque" we follow the collapse of the marriage between Claire Bulle Ogier the actress and Sebastien Jean-Pierre Kalfon the director of the production. 11.75 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus eleven with pinholes at corners. Rosenbaum 1000. Cocinor unknown
1982ref. 139662Paris: Elephant 1982. Vintage borderless oversized reference photograph from the 1982 film depicting director Jacques Rouffio going over the script with actress Romy Schneider on the set. Scheider's final film before her untimely death. Based on the 1936 novel by Joseph Kessel. 12 x 7.75 inches. Fine. Elephant unknown
1958ref. 157095N.p.: N.p. 1958. Vintage reference photograph from the 1958 film showing director Jacques Tati and a camera operator filming an outdoors scene. National Film Archive stamp on the verso along with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil regarding cropping. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Tati's second of four films featuring the inimitable Monsieur Hulôt. In this chapter Hulôt strays from his rather ordinary Paris neighborhood and into a modern suburban one where technological chaos reigns. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes and winner of the Jury Special Prize and winner of an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Set in the Parisian suburbs. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1971ref. 149665N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1971 French film. The final film to feature Jacques Tati as the iconic lovable Monsieur Hulot following "Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot" 1953 "Mon Oncle" 1958 and "Playtime" 1967. This feature finds Hulot as a naive but intrepid Parisian automobile designer whose plan to show off his newly created camper car at an auto show in Amsterdam is waylaid by a plethora of roadway obstacles including Dutch customs a car accident and a slow-moving mechanic. Set and shot on location in Paris and the Netherlands. 11.75 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1932ref. 151808Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation 1932. Final Shooting script for the 1932 film seen here under the working title "Divided By Two" which has been crossed out with the title "Handle With Care" written in manuscript ink just above. A single mother's peaceful family life is disturbed by her growing attraction to a handsome gangster. Green titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 9/28/32 with credits for director David Butler and screenwriters Frank Craven and Sam Mintz. Title page present. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered K-3. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated 10-18-32. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus moderately edgeworn bound internally with three gold brads. Fox Film Corporation unknown
1964ref. 160155Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1964. Collection of eleven vintage studio still photographs from the 1964 film. Based on William Bradford Huie's 1959 novel. A biting antiwar satire which follows a laconic US Navy officer who falls in love with a British woman shortly before being sent off on a dangerous D-Day mission. Shot on location in London and Oxnard California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1966ref. 155646N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the iconic 1966 British film showing actors Alan Bates and Lynn Redgrave. Printed label of The Salt Lake Tribune on the verso along with a Received stamp dated Feb 18 1967. Based on the 1965 novel by Margaret Forster a portrait of 1960s Swinging London about a young woman who is torn between romances with her father's employer and the boyfriend of her pregnant flatmate. Set in London. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Very Good plus with a manuscript annotation in pencil on the bottom left corner of the recto. N.p. unknown
1966ref. 168483N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1966 film showing a sex scene between actors Jane Birkin and Gillian Hills with David Hemmings looking on on the right. Provenance stamps and annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on the verso. Michelangelo Antonioni's first English-language film marking the beginning of the final phase of his work co-produced by companies in Italy the United States and the United Kingdom featuring an international cast. The director's brash use of color set design nonstandard editing techniques and typical emphasis of atmosphere over plot would carry over into the two major films that followed "Zabriskie Point" 1970 and "The Passenger" 1975. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay. Set and shot on location in London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 865. Ebert I. Grant UK. N.p. unknown
1968ref. 160678N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1968 film showing actress Jane Fonda nude underneath a blanket of moss and feathers. Based on the adult comic book by Jean-Claude Forest published in the French magazine "V" in 1962 and 1964. Likely the campiest space-opera sex comedy in film history. Though not popular upon its release it was re-released to greater acclaim in 1977 and has since influenced countless fashion designers films and musicians including Duran Duran whose name is a play on that of the main villain. Set in outer space shot on location in Rome. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown
1948ref. 151699N.p.: N.p. 1948. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Jean Cocteau in conversation with actress Silvia Monfort while cinematographer Christian Matras looks on to the left. With the stamp of Le Parisien archive on the verso. Based on Cocteau's 1946 play. In nineteenth-century Europe a suicidal anarchist poet falls in love with the long-secluded queen who has been absent from the public eye for ten years due to her grief over her husband's death. Set in the fictional country of Krantz. 7 x 5.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 140952France: Les Films du Cyclope / Omnia Films 1962. Vintage photograph from the 1962 film showing Jean Renoir directing star Jean-Pierre Cassel and some supporting actors during an outdoor shot with the boom operator in the background. Manuscript pencil notation on the verso identifying the subjects and film. Based on Jacques Perret's 1947 novel a comedic account of a French aristocrat's repeated attempts to escape from a German POW camp during WWII and a companion piece to Renoir's earlier WWI set masterpiece "Le Grande Illusion" 1937. 10.75 x 8.25 inches. Light creasing to the borders Near Fine. Les Films du Cyclope / Omnia Films unknown
1951ref. 149591Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1951. Vintage studio still photograph of director Jean Renoir and screenwriter Rumer Godden on the set of the 1951 film. Based on Godden's 1946 novel. Renoir's first feature length film in color following an adolescent girl coming of age in British colonial India. Shot on location in West Bengal India. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Ebert III. BFI 619. Criterion Collection 276. United Artists unknown
1933ref. 161157Paris: Franfilmdis 1933. Vintage oversize double weight studio still photograph for the landmark 1933 silent film. Provenance stamp on the verso. Although he only made four films before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 29 Jean Vigo would come to have an outsized influence on cinema particularly the French New Wave with François Truffaut in particular paying homage to Vigo's anarchic boarding school students in "Zero for Conduct" during the classroom and recess scenes in his 1959 film "The 400 Blows." 11.75 x 9.75 inches with wide bottom margins. Very Good plus lightly creased at the edges. Criterion Collection 578. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Franfilmdis unknown
1961ref. 150014N.p.: N.p. 1961. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Jean-Claude Brialy and Anna Karina from the 1961 film. "Michel Casanova" stamp and "R. Levy" stamp on verso. Godard's homage to romantic comedies and the Hollywood musical about a woman who wants to have child but is caught between her resistant boyfriend and his overeager best friend. Perhaps the director's warmest and funniest film. Set in and shot on location in Paris. 9.25 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 238. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 155298N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage reference photograph from the 1967 French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard showing actors Raoul Lévy and Anny Duperey. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A day in the life of a seemingly normal suburban housewife who intersperses her daily routine of housework cleaning and shopping with appointments as a call girl. One of director Godard's most highly regarded and stylistically innovative films released the same year as "Weekend" and "La chinoise." Set and shot on location in Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 482. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 163800N.p.: N.p. 1962. Two vintage borderless oversize reference photographs from the 1962 film both showing actress Anna Karina. Annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on the versos. Director Jean-Luc Godard's least "intellectual" film and also one of his finest a drama about a well-educated Parisian woman who drifts into prostitution out of boredom with the working world. The third of seven influential films between 1960 and 1965 directed by Godard and starring his then-wife and muse Anna Karina. Shot on location in Paris. 11.75 x 9.5 inches. Very Good moderately edgeworn. BFI 2055. Criterion Collection 512. Ebert I. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 168470N.p.: N.p. 1967. Two vintage borderless reference photographs showing a car accident sequence from the 1967 film one showing director Jean-Luc Godard looking back at the camera smiling wryly as plumes of smoke rise in the background. Layout annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the versos. One of Godard's most misanthropic films about a loveless bourgeois couple who fantasize about killing each other while on a long road trip to visit the woman's parents with the intent of securing an inheritance. Shot on location in Ile de France and Paris. 6.75 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 635. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 158145N.p.: N.p. 1972. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1972 French adult film. One with annotations in manuscript pencil regarding cropping on the verso. A young drug addict wanders into a secluded Canadian villa where she is drawn into a wild party that quickly degenerates into violence. Shot on location in Mont Saint-Hilaire. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall. Bier 1203. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 158219N.p.: N.p. 1962. Collection of eleven vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1962 French-Italian film. A peplum sword-and-sandal swashbuckler set in 1700s France about a highwayman who forms a band of knaves who steal from the rich and give to the poor. The second of three films starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale following Mauro Bolognini's "La viaccia" 1961 and preceding José Giovanni's "Scoumoune" 1972. Shot on location in Aveyron Hérault Seine-et-Marne and Oise France. 9.25 x 7 inches. One moderately faded else Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 150709Los Angeles: Cinerama Releasing 1972. Collection of eleven vintage studio still photographs from the 1972 documentary film. A documentary capturing the first performance of an all-Black rodeo in Harlem and the varied audience reactions to seeing African Americans participating in what was widely considered a white sport. Featuring appearances by Muhammad Ali who rides a horse down 125th Street and noted Western actor Woody Strode. Set and shot on location in Harlem. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Cinerama Releasing unknown
1974ref. 169584N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage oversize reference photograph from the 1974 French film showing actors Alice Arno and Tania Busselier. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil regarding layout on the verso. Loosely based on the works of the Marquis de Sade about a murderous countess who is released from a mental institution proceeding to return to her perverse and bloodthirsty ways. 11.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1984ref. 170425N.p.: Cinesthesia Productions 1984. Seven vintage photographs from the 1984 film including six studio stills and one reference photograph. One with a production company label on the verso and five with provenance labels to same. Director Jim Jarmusch's first effort "Permanent Vacation" 1980 was his final thesis at New York University's film school. As with the earliest films of Jean-Pierre Melville and David Lynch he then spent four years making "Stranger than Paradise" shooting as money allowed. The resulting film was the stunning breakthrough of an auteur who both understood his masters and paved the way for a new kind of cinema. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine to Fine one with annotations in manuscript pencil to the margins. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 400. Rosenbaum 1000. Cinesthesia Productions unknown
1955ref. 170764Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1955. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1955 film showing Joan Collins in a glittering two-piece ensemble and matching jewelry. French release stamp on the verso. An epic drama set in Ancient Egypt about the construction of the Great Pyramid co-written by William Faulkner. Although poorly received upon release-and notable as Howard Hawks' first commercial failure-the film has since been reevaluated by a host of critics including Jonathan Rosenbaum who praised the film for its continued relevance in relation to contemporary politics. Shot on location in Egypt. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Warner Brothers unknown
1974ref. 170745N.p.: John Boorman Productions 1974. Vintage color reference photograph of Sean Connery and Sara Kestlman from the 1974 film. After the critical and commercial success of 1972's "Deliverance" director John Boorman was given almost total creative freedom for his next film. He responded by costuming Sean Connery in red briefs and suspenders thigh-high boots a handlebar mustache and a long braid and setting him loose in a utopian city of nearly catatonically bored immortals as a ruthless killer doing the violent bidding of a giant floating talking stone head. In his spare time he woos and has a child with Charlotte Rampling. Somewhat obviously the film has since become a cult classic. Shot on location in Ireland. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Arrow 1147. John Boorman Productions unknown
1967ref. 151240N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1967 film showing actor Eddie Powell as The Mummy carrying actress Elizabeth Sellars. With a provenance stamp on the verso. A team of archaeologists revive an Egyptian pharaoh who subsequently seeks retribution for the violation of his tomb. The third in Hammer Films' Mummy cycle preceded by "The Mummy" 1959 and "The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb" 1964 and followed by "Blood from the Mummy's Tomb" 1971. The final Hammer film to be produced at Bray Studios before the company's 1967 relocation to Elstree and Pinewood Studios. Set in Egypt. 7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
