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1969ref. 151305N.p.: N.p. 1969. Collection of eight vintage borderless photographs from the 1969 French film. Based on Rene Barjavel's 1969 novel. A young Parisian man travels to Nepal to find his deadbeat father only to fall in with a group of drug-loving hippies. Set in Paris and Nepal. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 149633Paris: Fox Europa 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 French film showing director Henri Verneuil actor Alain Delon and other members of the cast and crew on a constructed set used for the airplane flight sequence in the film. With two provenance stamps on the verso. Based on the 1967 novel by Auguste Le Breton about a small Mafia family planning to steal a collection of diamonds while being pursued by a police commissioner. Set and shot on location in Rome New York and Paris. 9 x 6.5 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased throughout. Grant US. Lee The Heist Film. Fox Europa unknown books
1964ref. 150307N.p.: N.p. 1964. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1964 film showing actors Jean-Louis Trintignant and Jeanne Moreau between takes. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of PRPresse. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. Loosely based on the adventures of Dutch dancer-turned-spy Mata Hari who worked as a secret agent for the Germans during World War I. Shot on location in Paris. 8 x 11.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1961ref. 138215Paris: N.p. 1961. Vintage black-and-white borderless still photograph of Godard and Macha Meril on the set of the 1961 film. With the Paris stamp of photographer Claude Schwartz on the verso. 9 x 6 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 238. N.p. unknown books
1965ref. 151996N.p.: Andre Michelin Productions 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Eddie Constantine as Lemmy Caution in bed armed and reading a French translation of Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep" from the 1965 film. Printed snipe and provenance stamp of "G. Toussier" on verso. Jean-Luc Godard's neo-noir foray into science fiction transplanting the fictional detective Lemmy Caution Constantine into a dystopian future assigned to kill the machine intelligence that rules over a fascist state where emotion is outlawed. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Very light edgewear to the corners else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 25. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Grant France. Rosenbaum 1000. Andre Michelin Productions unknown books
1965ref. 152493N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photograph of Jean-Paul Belmondo from the set of the 1965 film. "14 Mai 1965" stamp and annotation in holograph marker of "credit Y-Debraine" on verso. Based on the 1962 novel "Obession" by Lionel White about an unhappily married man who goes on a traveling crime spree with an ex-girlfriend who herself is being pursued by right wing paramilitary hit men. 9 x 13.25 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and slight chipping on lower right edges. Criterion Collection 421. Godard Histoires du cinema. N.p. unknown books
1967ref. 149386N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage reference photograph of director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of the 1967 film with actors Jean Yanne Jean-Pierre Leaud and Mireille Darc. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso with celo tape from the Institute of Contemporary Arts Cinema for a July 5 1968 showing with annotations of actors names in holograph ink. In one of Godard's most misanthropic films a loveless bourgeois couple Corinne Darc and Roland Yanne fantasize about killing each other when they aren't cheating on the other. They ponder these matters as they take a nearly never-ending nightmarish road trip to visit Corinne's parents intent on securing an inheritance resolved to murder if necessary. Shot on location in Ile de France and Paris. 8 x 10 inches with wide horizontal margins. Light curling else Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. Criterion Collection 635. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown books
1964ref. 144481Paris: Les Films Ariane 1964. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1964 film. With an agency stamp and holograph annotations on the verso. Dufourquet Belmondo is in Paris on shore leave eager to see his Agnes Dorléac. When he finally sees her only briefly before she's kidnapped and held for ransom by a treasure-hungry family friend. A James Bond spoof in the wake of Belmondo's swashbuckling success "Cartouche" 1962 opposite Claudia Cardinale with puzzle solving murder in Brasilia art thieves and a pursuit to find sacred Amazon treasure. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing Story and Screenplay: Written Directly for the Screen 1965 and winner of a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film 1964. Shot on location in Rio de Janeiro Brazil and Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Les Films Ariane unknown books
1973ref. 140845Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film. With a single notation to the title page in holograph ink indicating this copy is from Barry Levinson. Based on the 1955 novel "Le Blockhaus" by Jean-Paul Clebert the story follows a mixed-group of forced laborers held by German forces taking shelter in a German bunker on D-Day. However due to the heavy shelling they are entombed in the blockhouse. Fortunately it is a storehouse as well so the prisoners have food to last them for years but unfortunately they are permanently trapped in there. The film deals with how they lived in their underground prison and their eventual deaths. Set in Normandy shot on location in Guernsey Channel Islands. Blue blank wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter John Gould and author Jean-Paul Clebert. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 140. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1972ref. 149967N.p.: N.p. 1972. Four borderless reference photographs one oversize of Jean-Pierre Melville Catherine Deneuve Alain Delon and Richard Crenna on the set of and on location for the 1972 film. A police detective played by Delon in a switch from his usual criminal roles in Melville pictures is on the trail of a gang of thieves unaware that they are led by a friend. Melville's final film. Shot on location in Paris and Bordeaux France. Oversize photo 11.5 x 8.25 inches. Other photos variously from 9 x 7 inches to 10.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Grant France. Selby France. Spicer France. N.p. unknown books
1959ref. 142159France: Radio-Television Francaise RTF / Societe Financiere de Radiodiffusion / Compagnie Jean Renoir 1959. Archive of 36 press photographs taken on the set of the 1959 film mounted to four printed card stock proof sheets from "Telerama" magazine with each sheet containing holograph ink annotations with the name of the production credits for Renoir and photographer R. Saguet and with three dated January 26 1959 and one dated April 4 1959. Accompanying the photographs are 35 negatives for photographs in the archive and 1 negative for a photograph that was not struck and mounted. All the photographs featuring cast and crew working on the set and 16 feature images of Renoir on the set. Also included are two vintage borderless press photographs depicting scenes for the film. Each with the stamp of "Telerama" on the verso along with holograph annotations identifying the film and for layout. Renoir's loose adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" premiering at the Venice Film Festival followed by airing on French television and an international theatrical release. Proof photographs and negatives roughly 2 x 2 inches. Fine. Proof sheets 11.5 x 9.5 inches. Card stock. About Near Fine with some wear at the corners. Press photographs 7.25 x 5 inches. Light diagonal creasing to the upper corner of one photograph else Near Fine. Radio-Television Francaise [RTF] / Societe Financiere de Radiodiffusion / Compagnie Jean Renoir unknown books
1951ref. 151232Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1951. Collection of four vintage studio still photographs from the 1951 film three showing crew members on the set including novelist Rumer Godden cinematographer Satyajit Ray producer Kenneth McEldowney and director Jean Renoir. One with a partially faded provenance stamp on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. 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. Three photographs 8 x 10 inches one 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. United Artists unknown books
1957ref. 138551Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1957. Vintage reference photograph of Jean Seberg from the 1957 film. An image we have never seen. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1988ref. 142577N.p.: Millimeter Films 1988. Vintage First Re-Write script for the 1989 film. A rare example of a sequel that rivals its predecessor. Following up on the cult horror classic "The Stepfather" Terry O'Quinn reprises his pitch-perfect role as a psychotic killer escaped from an insane asylum who obsessed with "family values" marries into broken homes and murders his new family when he is inevitably unsatisfied with the results. Set in Los Angeles shot on location in Vancouver and California. Cream untitled wrappers. Title page present noted as copy No. 172 dated November 15 1988 with a credit for screenwriter John Auerbach. 97 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Noted at copy No. 79 in holograph ink on the title page. Xerographic duplication first generation photocopy with punch holes with blue revision pages throughout dated 12/07/88. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Millimeter Films unknown books
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 books
1970ref. 144863Beverly Hills CA: United Artists / Chrislaw Productions 1970. Vintage borderless double weight photograph of actor Sammy Davis Jr. and director Jerry Lewis on the set of the 1970 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Chris Pepper Peter Lawford and Charlie Salt Sammy Davis Jr. are about to lose their London nightclub. In desperation they turn to Pepper's aristocrat twin brother for help who shortly after they contact is murdered. Pepper assumes his dead brothers identity and together with Salt they try to solve the crime. Shot on location in Herefordshire and London England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists / Chrislaw Productions unknown books
1975ref. 147480N.p.: Grafopress-Ciampino 1975. Vintage Italian Locandina poster for the 1975 film here under the title "Le Viziose." "Exorcisme" was released under a number of titles including "Le Viziose" and "Exorcisme et Messes Noires" as well as an X-rated version "Sexorcismes." Footage from "Exorcisme" was later re-edited in 1979 as "El Sadico de Notre-Dame." Jess Franco directs here under the pseudonym of James P. Johnson or L.P. Johnson as on the poster is the screenwriter under the pseudonym David Khune and acts under the pseudonym Jess Frank. Franco's "Exorcisme" features Franco in the lead as Mathis Vogel a psychotic defrocked priest who writes S&M stories by day and tortures and murders Satanic black mass dinner theater patrons by night. Also starring Franco's longtime collaborator and later wife Lina Romay as the free spirit Anne. 13 x 27.5 inches folded as issued. Near Fine. Thrower Stephen. Flowers of Perversion: The Delirious Cinema of Jess Franco Volume Two 1975-2013. Grafopress-Ciampino unknown books
1980ref. 149409N.p.: N.p. 1980. Collection of five vintage borderless color photographs from the 1980 film with title labels affixed to the verso of each. Jim Jarmusch's directorial debut fresh from dropping out of film school his signature patient ambling and dryly humorous approach to storytelling firmly established. Set against the backdrop of a grungy late-1970s New York City we follow the young unemployed Allie Chris Parker full of ennui meandering through the city contemplating his life and encountering curious and odd characters along the way. Set in and shot on location in New York City. Four photographs 5.5 x 3.75 inches one phtoograph 5.25 x 3.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 400. Destroy All Movies The Complete Guide to Punks on Film. N.p. unknown books
1974ref. 147465Munich: Concorde Film 1974. Vintage borderless candid reference photograph of Warhol superstar Joe D'Allesandro in the 1974 Italian film. With a mimeo snipe to the verso. By the time D'Allesandro appeared in the torrid 1974 film he was already well established as a gay icon and sex symbol as a result of his breakthrough appearances in Andy Warhol's "Four Stars" 1967 "San Diego Surf" 1968 "Flesh" 1968 "Trash" 1970 and "Heat" 1970. 7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with light soil. Concorde Film unknown books
1983ref. 152235N.p.: N.p. 1983. Six sets of original storyboards for the 1983 film. Housed in a MCA Universal City Studios manila envelope. The dead-end drivers of a rundown cab company must band together with the help of their naive newest member to save themselves from a rival company and to help Mr. T teach kids to say no to drugs. Set and shot on location in Washington DC. Approximately 200 leaves in total. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine each set partially bound with a single paperclip. N.p. unknown books
1959ref. 141014N.p.: Lion International 1959. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1959 film. The first film by Cassavetes for which he raised the entirety of the production budget himself the story of three African American siblings in Harlem two of whom often pass for white. Begun as an acting exercise in a workshop Cassavetes was conducting with Burt Lane the story was originally filmed in 1958 with completely improvised dialogue and action based on scene outlines created by Cassavetes. After the film was poorly received at its three initial screening by just about everyone Cassavetes knew he reworked the ideas into a more traditional script with screenwriter Robert Alan Arthur and reshot the film replacing between half and two thirds of the original footage and dramatically altering the story. Released in 1959 this version better reflected his vision for the film and received a critics award when shown at the Venice Film Festival the following year. A watershed moment in American independent films heralding not just the arrival of a new iconoclastic director but the birth of an entire movement. Shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Lion International unknown books
1952ref. 140216Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1952. Draft script for the 1953 film here under the working title "Vaquero." A two Mexican stepbrothers raid the homesteads of settlers in Texas until one of them develops a mutual attraction to the wife of one of the ranchers leading to a showdown between the two. Set in Texas shot on location in Utah USA. Light blue titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 67 dated February 11 1952. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Mimeograph duplication with revision pages throughout dated variously between November 5 1951 and February 11 1952. Pages Very Good wrapper about Good with some repairs to the rear wrapper bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1980ref. 142430New York: LaMarca Productions 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film based on the 1960 novel by John Hersey. A satire about the American educational system in which a man tries to buy a smart young child with a difficult home life in order to utilize him in an experiment to engineer super-intelligent humans. Adaptation written by Lee Minoff writer of the screenplay for the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine." Tan untitled agency wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Lee Minoff and novelist John Hersey. 147 leaves with last page of text numbered 145. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver brads. LaMarca Productions unknown books
1956ref. 144374Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1956. Collection of four vintage photographs two borderless from the 1956 film. Mimeo snipe with press agency stamps and stickers on the verso Shot on location in the UK Spain Portugal and the Atlantic coast in the USA. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Borderless: 6.5 x 8.5 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1952ref. 149361London: Romulus 1952. Two vintage borderless reference photographs fromt he set of the 1952 film. The first shows director John Huston and actors Colette Marchand and Jose Ferrer with the stamp of photographer Serge Lido on the verso. The second shows Huston and actors Zsa Zsa Gabor and Suzanne Flon all sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. Based on Pierre La Mure's 1950 novel. A dramatization of the life of Parisian bohemian and post-Impressionist painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec with a focus on his frequent visits to the Moulin Rouge a burlesque club in the Pigalle district of Paris. Nominated for seven Academy Awards winning two. Set and shot on location throughout Paris and London. 7 x 9.25 inches. Very Good with light ink stains to the lower half of the image. Romulus unknown books
