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1994ref. 153192N.p.: N.p. 1994. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director John Waters on the set of the 1994 film. Brief manuscript ink annotations to the verso noting the film title and Waters' name. A seemingly normal middle-class housewife in suburban Baltimore moonlights as a maniacal unstoppable serial killer. Waters' ninth feature film. Shot on location in Baltimore. 5 x 7 inches. Fine. Carlson and Connolly Destroy All Movies. N.p. unknown books
1925ref. 151451N.p.: N.p. 1925. Vintage reference photograph from the 1925 film showing actors George K. Arthur Bruce Guerin Otto Matiesen and Georgia Hale. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. An impoverished group of dockside dwellers decide to move to the city to make their fortunes. Josef von Sternberg's directorial debut. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly and evenly toned with light foxing to the verso. N.p. unknown
1925ref. 151451N.p.: N.p. 1925. Vintage reference photograph from the 1925 film showing actors George K. Arthur Bruce Guerin Otto Matiesen and Georgia Hale. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. An impoverished group of dockside dwellers decide to move to the city to make their fortunes. Josef von Sternberg's directorial debut. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly and evenly toned with light foxing to the verso. N.p. unknown books
1981ref. 150157N.p.: N.p. 1981. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Jennifer Jason Leigh and John DiSanti from the 1981 film. Television reporter Jane suspects a neighbor is the serial killer/rapist terrorizing the city and must prove it before the killer catches on. Leigh's film debut as Tracy Jane's deaf mute sister. Set in and shot on location in Miami Florida. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Very Good plus with light splashing. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. N.p. unknown
1981ref. 150157N.p.: N.p. 1981. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Jennifer Jason Leigh and John DiSanti from the 1981 film. Television reporter Jane suspects a neighbor is the serial killer/rapist terrorizing the city and must prove it before the killer catches on. Leigh's film debut as Tracy Jane's deaf mute sister. Set in and shot on location in Miami Florida. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Very Good plus with light splashing. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. N.p. unknown books
1931ref. 160653London: National Film Archive 1931. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1931 film showing director King Vidor. National Film Archive stamp and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1929 play a light romance which takes place over twenty-four hours in a small community of immigrants in Hell's Kitchen. Set in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Archive unknown books
1966ref. 154899Dallas: Orbit Films 1966. Vintage pressbook for the US release of the 1966 Japanese film. In a futuristic world young girls are abducted and transformed into Love Robots living sex dolls available for sale. Pink film auteur Koji Wakamatsu was one of the most successful Japanese filmmakers of the 1960s directing a number of notable erotic and softcore adult films including "Go Go Second Time Virgin" 1969 and "Ecstasy of the Angels" 1972 as well as producing Nagisa Oshima's controversial film "In the Realm of the Senses" 1976. Six pages bi-fold with one laid-in leaf. 11 x 17 inches. Near Fine. Orbit Films unknown
1966ref. 154899Dallas: Orbit Films 1966. Vintage pressbook for the US release of the 1966 Japanese film. In a futuristic world young girls are abducted and transformed into Love Robots living sex dolls available for sale. Pink film auteur Koji Wakamatsu was one of the most successful Japanese filmmakers of the 1960s directing a number of notable erotic and softcore adult films including "Go Go Second Time Virgin" 1969 and "Ecstasy of the Angels" 1972 as well as producing Nagisa Oshima's controversial film "In the Realm of the Senses" 1976. Six pages bi-fold with one laid-in leaf. 11 x 17 inches. Near Fine. Orbit Films unknown books
1959ref. 155776N.p.: N.p. 1959. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1959 Japanese film. One photograph with a stamp noting the film's French title "L'Etrange obsession" on the verso and all three photographs with manuscript ink annotations on the verso. Based on Jun'ichir Tanizaki's 1956 novel "The Key" about an aging voyeuristic antique collector who manipulates his wife into having an affair with his daughter's fiancé as a means of curing his impotence. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Photos 6 x 4.5 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1959ref. 155776N.p.: N.p. 1959. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1959 Japanese film. One photograph with a stamp noting the film's French title "L'Etrange obsession" on the verso and all three photographs with manuscript ink annotations on the verso. Based on Jun'ichir Tanizaki's 1956 novel "The Key" about an aging voyeuristic antique collector who manipulates his wife into having an affair with his daughter's fiancé as a means of curing his impotence. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Photos 6 x 4.5 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1987ref. 163715N.p.: N.p. 1987. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1987 Polish film one showing actors Bogus awa Pawelec and Tadeusz omnicki the other showing actors Monika Gozdzik and Bogus aw Linda. Dutch distributor labels and annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos. A predecessor to "Sliding Doors" 1998 and "Run Lola Run" 1998 about a young man presented with three choices which lead his life in three separate political directions. Although completed in 1981 the film's release was suppressed in Poland for several years and finally released in 1987 albeit in a censored format. Shot on location in ódzkie and Warsaw Poland. 9.5 x 7 inches. One Near Fine one Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 772. N.p. unknown
1987ref. 163715N.p.: N.p. 1987. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1987 Polish film one showing actors Bogus awa Pawelec and Tadeusz omnicki the other showing actors Monika Gozdzik and Bogus aw Linda. Dutch distributor labels and annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos. A predecessor to "Sliding Doors" 1998 and "Run Lola Run" 1998 about a young man presented with three choices which lead his life in three separate political directions. Although completed in 1981 the film's release was suppressed in Poland for several years and finally released in 1987 albeit in a censored format. Shot on location in ódzkie and Warsaw Poland. 9.5 x 7 inches. One Near Fine one Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 772. N.p. unknown books
1960ref. 153701Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1960. First Draft script for an unproduced television pilot. Signed by screenwriter Larry Cohen on the title page. A crime series loosely based on "Tarzan" about a semi-feral highly agile man who captures criminals in the Amazon Rainforest. An unproduced venture by screenwriter Larry Cohen best known for his Blaxploitation films "Bone" 1972 "Black Caesar" 1973 and "Hell Up in Harlem" 1973 as well as several popular horror and science fiction films including "It's Alive" 1974 "God Told Me To" 1976 and "The Stuff" 1985. Set in Brazil. Black titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present undated noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Larry Cohen. 81 leaves with last page of text numbered IV-79. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
1960ref. 153701Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1960. First Draft script for an unproduced television pilot. Signed by screenwriter Larry Cohen on the title page. A crime series loosely based on "Tarzan" about a semi-feral highly agile man who captures criminals in the Amazon Rainforest. An unproduced venture by screenwriter Larry Cohen best known for his Blaxploitation films "Bone" 1972 "Black Caesar" 1973 and "Hell Up in Harlem" 1973 as well as several popular horror and science fiction films including "It's Alive" 1974 "God Told Me To" 1976 and "The Stuff" 1985. Set in Brazil. Black titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present undated noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Larry Cohen. 81 leaves with last page of text numbered IV-79. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown books
1954ref. 157104Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1954. Vintage studio still photograph from the set of the 1954 film showing director Lewis Gilbert and a camera crew setting up a shot with Gloria Grahame. Based on the 1953 novel by Richard Macaulay about four desperate men who meet in a pub and decide to rob a post office. The novel's original Beverly Hills setting was changed to 1950s London. Set in London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1966ref. 159144Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1966. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1966 UK film showing actor Michael Caine in conversation with director Lewis Gilbert. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Bill Naughton's 1966 play set in sexy swinging 1960s London about a young working class chauffeur who decides to change his womanizing behavior after a tuberculosis diagnosis and the birth of his son. Director Lewis Gilbert breaks the fourth wall in this film with Caine directly addressing the camera in attempt to gain sympathy from the audience a technique used again by Gilbert in "Shirley Valentine" 1989. Gilbert also addressed the then-taboo issues of pregnancy and abortion in an uncommonly candid style. Set and shot on location in London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine lightly age toned. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1954ref. 157104Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1954. Vintage studio still photograph from the set of the 1954 film showing director Lewis Gilbert and a camera crew setting up a shot with Gloria Grahame. Based on the 1953 novel by Richard Macaulay about four desperate men who meet in a pub and decide to rob a post office. The novel's original Beverly Hills setting was changed to 1950s London. Set in London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1974ref. 170507N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage reference photograph from the 1974 Italian film showing director Liliana Cavani and actor Charlotte Rampling on the set. Cavani's international breakthrough a deeply controversial film about a Holocaust survivor who renews her sadomasochistic sexual relationship with her Nazi captor after a chance encounter which threatens to expose his fellow former SS officers now living in secret in postwar Vienna. Shot on location in Vienna Austria and Rome Italy. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 59. Grant Italy. N.p. unknown
1977ref. 156226N.p.: N.p. 1977. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Liliana Cavani with actors Dominique Sanda Erland Josephson and Robert Powell on the set of the 1977 film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Loosely based on the life of German philosopher Friedrich Nietszche exploring his opium addiction and his relationships with author Paul Rée and Russian psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé. Shot on location in Germany and Italy. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1974ref. 170507N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage reference photograph from the 1974 Italian film showing director Liliana Cavani and actor Charlotte Rampling on the set. Cavani's international breakthrough a deeply controversial film about a Holocaust survivor who renews her sadomasochistic sexual relationship with her Nazi captor after a chance encounter which threatens to expose his fellow former SS officers now living in secret in postwar Vienna. Shot on location in Vienna Austria and Rome Italy. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 59. Grant Italy. N.p. unknown books
1957ref. 160651Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1957. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1957 documentary film showing Louis Armstrong and Edmond Hall in performance. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A biography following Armstrong and his band as they embark on a world tour. Shot on location in Cape Town South Africa in London and in Memphis New Orleans and New York in the US. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly curled with a short closed tear repaired with paper tape on the left edge. United Artists unknown books
1963ref. 150521Rome: Titanus 1963. Vintage oversize borderless double weight photograph of Burt Lancaster. Photographer "G. B. Poletto" stamp on verso. Based on the 1958 novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Visconti's classic spacious homage to the quiet death of the Sicilian aristocracy of the mid-nineteenth century one of the great films of Italian cinema. Perhaps the apex of Ms. Cardinale's career and one of a handful of examples of Burt Lancaster's willingness to take on literate complex roles. Nominated for an Academy Award. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Rome Lazio and Sicily Italy. 11.75 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with some light creasing and edgewear. BFI 1087. Criterion Collection 235. Ebert II. Godard Histoires de cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader Canon Fodder 22. Titanus unknown
1963ref. 150521Rome: Titanus 1963. Vintage oversize borderless double weight photograph of Burt Lancaster. Photographer "G. B. Poletto" stamp on verso. Based on the 1958 novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Visconti's classic spacious homage to the quiet death of the Sicilian aristocracy of the mid-nineteenth century one of the great films of Italian cinema. Perhaps the apex of Ms. Cardinale's career and one of a handful of examples of Burt Lancaster's willingness to take on literate complex roles. Nominated for an Academy Award. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Rome Lazio and Sicily Italy. 11.75 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with some light creasing and edgewear. BFI 1087. Criterion Collection 235. Ebert II. Godard Histoires de cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader Canon Fodder 22. Titanus unknown books
1994ref. 150000N.p.: N.p. 1994. Draft script for an unproduced film. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations throughout most highlighting locations and noting editorial changes. Based on Lynda Barry's 1991 play set in a small interracial neighborhood in the 1960s about two little girls-one white and one Black-who become best friends in the face of discrimination and hardship. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated May 6 1994 with credits for screenwriter Kevin Rodney Sullivan and playwright Lynda Barry. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a paperclip impression at top right corner bound with three gold brads. Full provenance available. N.p. unknown
1994ref. 150000N.p.: N.p. 1994. Draft script for an unproduced film. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations throughout most highlighting locations and noting editorial changes. Based on Lynda Barry's 1991 play set in a small interracial neighborhood in the 1960s about two little girls-one white and one Black-who become best friends in the face of discrimination and hardship. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated May 6 1994 with credits for screenwriter Kevin Rodney Sullivan and playwright Lynda Barry. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a paperclip impression at top right corner bound with three gold brads. Full provenance available. N.p. unknown books
