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1989ref. 163313N.p.: N.p. 1989. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1989 film showing actors James Spader and Laura San Giacomo talking with director Steven Soderbergh. Director and screenwriter Steven Soderbergh's directorial debut and a landmark of independent cinema. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Winner of the Palme d'Or making Soderbergh the youngest director to receive the prize. Set and shot on location in Baton Rouge Louisiana. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 938. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 163314Tokyo: Shibata Organization 1970. Three vintage reference photographs from the US release of the 1970 Japanese pink film. Printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. Pink film auteur K ji Wakamatsu was one of the most successful Japanese filmmakers of the 1960s directing a number of notable erotic and softcore adult films with strong political bents including "Go Go Second Time Virgin" 1969 and "Ecstasy of the Angels" 1972 as well as producing Nagisa shima's controversial film "In the Realm of the Senses" 1976. 6.5 x 4.75 inches. Near Fine. Shibata Organization unknown
1979ref. 163316N.p.: N.p. 1979. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Werner Herzog directing actress Isabelle Adjani on the set of the 1979 film. Stamp of photographer Michael Ciment on the verso. Based on F.W. Murnau's 1922 film. The third collaboration between Herzog and the infamously ill-tempered Klaus Kinski who starred as Count Dracula. Herzog lauded Murnau's classic horror tale as the greatest picture Germany every produced and fittingly many shots from Herzog's adaptation directly replicate shots from the 1922 film. Shot on location in Mexico the Czech Republic the Netherlands and Germany. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. BFI 2030. Ebert IV. N.p. unknown
1971ref. 163342N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1971 film showing director Norman Jewison talking with actor Paul Mann on the set. Annotations in manuscript ink and Dutch agency label on the verso. Based on several stories from "Tevye the Dairyman" from Yiddish writer Sholom Aleichem and adapted from the 1964 stage musical about a poor Jewish milkman must come to terms with the modernity of the world outside of his orthodox traditions. Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Cinematography and Best Score; nominated for five others including Best Picture and Best Director. Set in Anatevka Russia filmed on location in Croatia and London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Hirschhorn p. 398. N.p. unknown
1947ref. 163341Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1947. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1948 film showing actress Marlene Dietrich. Mimeo snipe on the verso. An Iowa congresswoman enlists an American army captain to assist her in an investigation of a former Nazi entertainer in postwar Berlin. Unbeknownst to the congresswoman however the captain and the entertainer are engaged in an affair leading the captain to seduce the congresswoman in an attempt to hide his conflicting motives. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Shot on location in Berlin. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. Selby US. Selby UK. Paramount Pictures unknown
1960ref. 163339N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of actor Charles Aznavour and director François Truffaut on the set of the 1960 film. Annotations in manuscript ink and a printed provenance label on the verso. Aznavour spends half his time playing saloon piano and half his time on the run in this early Truffaut masterpiece one of the great French noirs based on the 1956 hard-boiled novel "Down There" by American pulp author David Goodis. Criterion notes: "François Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this his most playful film. Part thriller part comedy part tragedy Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie Charles Aznavour in a triumph of hangdog deadpan as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. Loaded with gags guns clowns and thugs this razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure nouvelle vague." 9 x 11.25 inches. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 315. Grant France. N.p. unknown
1987ref. 163925Los Angeles: New World Pictures 1987. Revised First Draft script for the 1991 film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher with her annotations throughout the script highlighting locations and a post-it note in her hand affixed to the front wrapper verso noting sets to build. A black comedy about a group of mutant shapeshifting bugs who travel from Brazil to suburban Ohio where they disguise themselves as a human family in order to wreak nuclear destruction on the town's unsuspecting inhabitants. Shot in 1988 and 1989 the film's release was delayed until 1991 due to financial problems with New World Pictures. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Shot on location in Oshkosh Appleton and Neenah Wisconsin. Generic white New World Pictures wrappers. Title page present dated 11/12/87 noted as Revised First Draft with an annotation noting copy No. 11 in manuscript ink and credits for screenwriters Michael Lehmann and Redbeard Simmons. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with front wrapper dampstained and partially detached from the binding. Bound internally with two gold brads. New World Pictures unknown
1977ref. 166688N.p.: N.p. 1977. Ten vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1977 film. Annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on the versos. Director Robert Altman's experimental dreamlike masterwork about three ethereal fractured women originally overlooked but later celebrated. Featuring brilliant performances from Shelley Duvall as the self-deluded socially maladroit Millie Janice Rule as the mysterious pregnant painter Willie and Sissy Spacek as the young timid and fawning Pinky. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in a small California desert town and shot on location in Palm Springs Thousand Palms and Desert Hot Springs California. 10 x 8 inches three with wide bottom margins. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 230. Ebert III. N.p. unknown
1990ref. 163900Los Angeles: Linguini Productions 1990. Draft script for the 1991 film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. A British bartender and a magic-obsessed waitress at a successful brasserie in Chelsea decide to team up to rob the restaurant. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 films including "The Last Seduction" "Pulp Fiction" "From Dusk Till Dawn" "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Set in New York shot on location in New York City and Los Angeles. Blue rear wrapper lacking front wrapper. Title page present dated April 26 1990 with credits for screenwriters Tamar Brott and Richard Shepard. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with a large binder clip. Linguini Productions unknown
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
1966ref. 148214Universal City: Universal Film 1966. Collection of 16 vintage color French lobby cards from the 1966 film. Based on the 1953 novel by Ray Bradbury. Set in and shot on location in England. 11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus pinholes to corners with come corner and edgewear. Universal Film unknown
1976ref. 166668N.p.: N.p. 1976. Nine vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1976 Italian film including one photograph of director Luchino Visconti on the set. Stamp of photographer Mario Tursi on the versos. Based on Gabriele d'Annunzio's 1892 novel "The Intruder" about an unfaithful aristocrat who falls back into love with his wife when he suspects her of cheating on him. Luchino Visconti's final directorial effort considered by many among his finest films released three months after his death. Set and shot on location in Rome and Lucca. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1961ref. 166645Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1961. Three vintage reference photographs from the set of the 1961 film including two bordered and one borderless. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos noting the name of actor Anthony Quinn. Based on Alistair MacLean's 1957 novel wherein a group of Allied soldiers plan to destroy an airtight German fortress in order to save British naval ships stranded in the Aegean Sea. Set and shot on location on the Greek islands. Approximately 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1980ref. 166666N.p.: Amanda Films 1980. Vintage borderless publicity photograph from the best-selling 1980 adult film showing a topless Marilyn Chambers. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. An orphaned model and heiress embarks on a sexual journey but can find no man to satisfy her lusts. A return to pornography for Chambers who largely unsuccessfully attempted to break into mainstream films throughout the 1970s. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Amanda Films unknown
1960ref. 166647Paris: L'Express 1960. Eight vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1960 Swedish film including multiple images of cast and crew on the set. Italian and French distribution stamps on the versos. A landmark twentieth century film whose irregular dramatic structure and juxtaposition of beauty and violence has inspired many other controversial and renowned films from "The Last House on the Left" 1972 to "Irreversible" 2002. The first of two Bergman efforts to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and nominated for the Palme d'Or with Bergman receiving a Special Mention at Cannes. Set in medieval Sweden. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine to Very Good plus. L'Express unknown
1976ref. 166641Paris: Sygma 1976. Vintage oversize matte-finish borderless reference photograph from the 1976 film showing a crying nude Jane Birkin with Joe Dallesandro in the foreground. Mimeo snipe on the verso. A tomboyish waitress at a truck stop develops a crush on a gay garbage truck driver and in spite of all odds they begin a relationship. Serge Gainsbourg's directorial debut. 11.75 x 8 inches. About Fine. Sygma unknown
1988ref. 166665N.p.: N.p. 1988. Six vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1988 film including three showing cast and crew members between takes on the set. Based on Milan Kundera's 1984 novel set during the Prague Spring about a womanizing brain surgeon who struggles between his childlike wife and his free-spirited lover. Set in 1960s Prague and Switzerland shot on location in Paris and Lyon France. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 55. N.p. unknown
1993ref. 166676N.p.: N.p. 1993. Vintage black-and-white reference photograph from the 1993 film showing actress Uma Thurman joyfully riding a horse. Printed snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1976 Tom Robbins novel following the adventures of a woman who capitalizes on her genetic mutation: enormous thumbs. Shot on location throughout Oregon. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 148288Universal City: Universal Pictures 1972. Collection of 12 vintage French color lobby cards from the 1972 film. Based on the 1966 novel "Goodbye Piccadilly Farewell Leicester Square" by Arthur La Bern. London is terrorized by a serial rapist who then strangles his victims with a necktie. Police suspect Richard Blaney Jon Finch whose wife was brutally killed. Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film. Set in and shot on location in London. 11.25 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Grant US. Universal Pictures unknown
1932ref. 166686Berlin: Universum Film UFA 1932. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1932 film showing director Robert Siodmak and a camera crew capturing a scene with actress Lilian Harvey. French mimeo snipe and UFA stamp on the verso. A young woman falls in love with a stage clown unaware that the man wooing her offstage is the performer behind the costume. 7 x 5.25 inches. Very Good plus. Universum Film [UFA] unknown
1923ref. 166685Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1923. Vintage publicity photograph of Pola Negri in profile taken to promote her appearance in the 1923 film. Paramount stamps and annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on Paramount's 1915 film of the same name which was based in turn on Hichens' 1909 novel about the titular seductress and the men who fall into her love trap. Early noir antecedent. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus moderately age toned. Paramount Pictures unknown
1967ref. 148302N.p.: Anouchka Films 1967. Collection of 17 vintage French color lobby cards from the 1967 film 15 with "CFDC - LYON" stamp on the versos. One of three feature films Godard released in 1967 and like both "Weekend" and "La chinoise" one that showcases Godard's increasing focus on filmic deconstruction as well as vocalization of leftist political ideas. Godard has stated that his overall desire with the film was "to include everything: sports politics even groceries" to make "an attempt at description of a phenomenon known. as a complex." 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes to corners light to moderate wear and a couple of small dampstains. Criterion Collection 482. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Anouchka Films unknown
1966ref. 148170Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1966. Collection of 16 vintage oversize French color photographs from the 1966 film. Based on the 1964 novel "A Mule for the Marquesa" by Frank O'Rourke about four men hired to by a wealthy Texan to rescue his wife from a Mexican revolutionary only to discover the job in not exactly what it seems. A sometimes overlooked and underrated entry into the Western canon despite being nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Set in Mexico and Texas shot on location in Mexico Arizona Nevada and California. 9.5 x 11.5 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1997ref. 163589Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox / Lucasfilm 1997. Vintage press kit for the 1997 re-release of the original "Star Wars" trilogy. Full-color pocketed folder with eight black-and-white photographs and three gatherings of promotional material. The remastered trilogy consisting of "Star Wars" 1977 "The Empire Strikes Back" 1980 and "Return of the Jedi" 1983 were released theatrically from January through March of 1997 for the 20th anniversary of Star Wars. Folder Very Good plus lightly foxed photographs and promotional material about Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox / Lucasfilm unknown
1976ref. 163599N.p.: N.p. 1976. Draft script for the 1976 film musical. Approximately 23 revision pages bound in at the rear of the script. Loosely based on the story of all-Black girl group the Supremes a rags-to-riches story about a trio of singing sisters from Harlem. The breakthrough performance of actress Irene Cara who would go on to appear in a number of films most prominently "Fame" 1980. Self wrappers. Missing title page presumably as issued. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication rectos only with goldenrod yellow pink and blue revision pages bound in at the rear of the script dated variously between 5/7/75 and 6/19/75. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
