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1981ref. 151952N.p.: Filmways 1981. Vintage reference photograph of Brian De Palma on the set of the 1981 film. Based on Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film "Blow Up" with an audio recording replacing a photograph early 1980s Philadelphia replacing Swinging London and a tight political thriller plot replacing the looser and less immediate one in the original. Shot on location in Philadelphia. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Criterion Collection 562. Grant US. Spicer Neo-Noir. Filmways unknown
ref. 150990N.p.: N.p. 1970. Collection of nine vintage reference photographs from the 1970 film including eight borderless and one with narrow margins and wide bottom margin. Two bear provenance stamps on the verso and one bears the stamp of photographer Andre Marinie. Three in the collection are on the set photographs featuring director Jacques Demy. Based on the 1695 French fairytale in verse by Charles Perrault and loosely based on Jean Cocteau's 1946 "Beauty and the Beast." Shot on location in Chambord Ecuille Gmabais Manche and Oise France. Photographs range in size from 7 x 5 inches to 10.5 x 7 inches. Generally about Near Fine. Criterion Collection 718. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 150607Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1972. Complete set of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the 1972 film. Four photos shown please inquire to see the others. Loosely based on the 1950 film "The Asphalt Jungle" which was in turn based on W. R. Burnett's 1949 novel. A former inmate decides to gather a gang of criminals to execute a diamond heist in the hopes of using the profits to start a community bank for black-owned businesses. Set in Los Angeles and San Quentin. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Lee The Heist Film. Parish and Hill 66. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 69 119-121. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1973ref. 150828Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Vintage borderless reference photograph of John Huston and Paul Newman on the set of the 1973 film. Based on the 1971 novel "The Freedom Trap" by Desmond Bagley. Director John Huston's neo-noir Cold War spy thriller with Paul Newman as a British Intelligence officer who allows himself to be imprisoned to infiltrate a spy organization. Screenwriter Walter Hill's third produced screenplay. Shot on location in Ireland and England. 9.25 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
1977ref. 151940Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1977. Vintage reference photograph of Steven Spielberg and François Truffaut on the set of the 1977 film. Roy Neary Dreyfuss is one of several people who witness UFOs at night and subsequently begins to have visions of a mysterious place. Government agents also have similar encounters only they discover physical evidence of extraterrestrials. Roy and the agents join together and are led to a place not unlike the place in Roy's visions where they have a close encounter of the third kind: contact. Winner of an Academy Award Best Cinematography 1978 and Spielberg's third feature as director following "Jaws" 1975 and "The Sugarland Express" 1974. Set in Muncie Indiana shot on location in Alabama and India. 9.75 x 8.25 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Columbia Pictures unknown
1974ref. 150864N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Robert Bresson and crew on the set of the 1974 film with two provenance stamps of film scholar and author "J. P. Berthome" on verso. Bresson's bloody take on the King Arthur legend was an expansion of the aesthetic he had already developed where the violence that was once implied became a reality-though certainly still quite surreal. Shot on location in Noirmoutier-en-L'Ile France. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1979ref. 151011N.p.: N.p. 1979. Two vintage reference photographs with bottom margins from the 1979 film one of Catriona MacColl and Barry Stokes and one on the set photograph of MacColl Stokes and director Jacques Demy. One with with provenance stamp of film scholar and author "Jean-Pierre Berthome" and layout annotations in manuscript red pencil on verso. Based on the 1972-1973 Japanese manga series "The Rose of Versailles" by Riyoko Ikeda which was also made into a 40 episode anime series under the same name directed by Tadao Nagahama and Osamu Dezak and broadcast on Nippon Television from October 10 1979 to September 3 1980. Oscar Francois de Jarjayes captain of the guards at the Palace of Versailles under King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette was born a girl and raised as a boy by her militant father. She now finds herself conflicted while in the maw of the French Revolution with the boy she loved in her youth Oscar on the opposite side of the struggle. Shot on location in Paris Seine-et-Marne Oise and Versailles France. 9.25 x 7 inches. Some faint creasing else Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 150969N.p.: N.p. 1969. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1969 film. Provenance stamps of film scholar and author J. P. Berthome on versos of all three and one with a National Film Archive stamp on the verso. Demy's first English language film recently a subject of renewed interest in two different documentaries about the Laurel Canyon music scene of the late 1960s. A young discontented man in a dead-end relationship learns his draft notice has arrived and he is due to report for Army duty the following week. While out trying to raise money to keep his car from being repossessed he sees and becomes obsessed with the beautiful Lola an older French model who works in a "model shop" posing for photographers. Set and shot on location in Laurel Canyon Los Angeles California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Twilight Time 327. N.p. unknown
1960ref. 152019N.p.: Pennebaker Productions 1960. Vintage double weight reference photograph of Marlon Brando Joanne Woodward Anna Magnani Sydney Lumet and cinematographer Boris Kaufman on the set of the 1960 film. Based on Tennesee Williams' 1957 play "Orpheus Descending" which itself was a revision of Williams' 1940 play "Battle of Angels." A man flees the law in New Orleans and finds work at a small-town store run by the resentful and frustrated Lady Torrance whose husband lies ill in the apartment above the store. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with thin two inch bruise to upper left portion of the image. Criterion Collection 515. Pennebaker Productions unknown
1958ref. 151065N.p.: N.p. 1958. Vintage reference photograph with wide vertical right border and cropped bottom of Douglas Sirk and Lana Turner on the set of the 1959 film. "Telegram and Gazette" stamp dated "AUG 15 1958" "Associated Press" stamp and descriptive newspaper clipping of photo now separated all on verso. Based on the 1933 novel by Fannie Hurst. Two single mothers-one white one black-struggle to raise their rebellious daughters. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Set in New York City shot on location in Los Angeles. 8 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with two small closed tears in right margin and cropped bottom. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown
1968ref. 150870N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vntage borderless double weight reference photograph of Jeanne Moreau and Jean-Claude Brialy from the 1968 film. Based on the classic 1940 crime novel by Cornell Woolrich a Haycraft Queen Cornerstone. A beautiful widow hunts down then seduces and kills the five men responsible for accidentally killing her beloved on their wedding day. An unforgettable performance from Moreau. Shot on location throughout France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 150827N.p.: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1967. Vintage borderless reference photograph with bottom margin of John Huston and Elizabeth Taylor on the set of the 1967 film. Illegible release stamp with annotations in manuscript pencil on verso. John Huston's lurid and campy adaptation of Carson McCuller's 1941 novel. A melodrama of lust infidelity repressed homosexuality self mutilation suicide and murder with a spectacular cast: Elizabeth Taylor Marlon Brando Brian Keith Julie Harris and Robert Forster. Shot on location in New York and Lazio Italy. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown
1972ref. 150813Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1972. Vintage reference photograph of Federico Fellini on the set of the 1972 film. A semi-autobiographical impressionistic portrait of Rome featuring two contrasting sections one based on Fellini's first journey to the city as a young man under Mussolini the other featuring scenes of contemporary city life. Set and shot on location in Rome. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 848. Eureka! 86. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. United Artists unknown
ref. 150845Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph of Jacques Demy on the set of the 1970 film. Based on the 1695 French fairytale in verse by Charles Perrault with numerous references to Jean Cocteau's 1946 "Beauty and the Beast." Upon the deathbed of his beautiful wife the Blue Queen the Blue King promises he would only marry someone more beautiful than her and the only woman lovelier in the kingdom is their daughter the Blue Princess. With the help of her wise godmother the Fairy of the Lilac the Blue Princess escapes to a nearby village wearing the foul skin of the king's prize donkey. Shot on location in Chambord Ecuille Gmabais Manche and Oise France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 718. unknown
1973ref. 151057Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1973. Vintage borderless compilation photograph of six Saul Bass title designs and portrait of Saul Bass to promote the 1974 Bass directed film. Bass' title designs shown are "The Man with the Golden Arm" "Carmen Jones" "Anatomy of a Murder" "Bonjour Tristesse" "Exodus" and "Seconds." Mimeo snipe affixed to verso and folded over recto. Bass' first and only directorial effort now a cult favorite which was featured on Season 1 Episode 9 of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" which aired on January 15 1989. Ants suddenly begin building strange towers and geometric designs in the Arizona desert and begin to exhibit greater intelligence threatening the scientists studying them and ultimately all of humanity. Set in the Arizona desert shot on location in Rift Valley Kenya and Eloy and Yuma Arizona. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Olive Films 1116. Paramount Pictures unknown
1962ref. 151080N.p.: N.p. 1962. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1962 film including one of Jean Renoir sitting amongst the cast on the set of the film. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil provenance stamp and label of film historian "Maurice Bessy" and "Le Caporal Epingle" stamp all on verso. Two photos shown please inquire to see others. Based on the 1947 novel by Jacques Perret. A comedic account of a French aristocrat's repeated attempts to escape from a German POW camp during WWII. A companion piece to Renoir's earlier WWI set masterpiece "Le Grande Illusion" 1937. Shot on location in Paris France and Vienna Austria. 9.5 x 7 inches. Some light edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1964ref. 150865N.p.: N.p. 1964. Vintage borderless reference photograph of L-R Jean-Paul Belmondo Henri Verneuil Lino Ventura and Bernard Blier on the set of the 1964 film. Photographer "Claude Schwartz" stamp on verso. Based on the 1972 French novel "Nous n'irons pas en Nigeria" by Claude Veillot. Rocco and his girlfriend hijack a truck with a mysterious payload and proceed to drive it through the Saharan desert toward the border. The trucking company gets Rocco's friend Herve and the new German employee Hans to go after him and retrieve the goods. Nominated for the Palm d'Or. Set in the Saharan desert shot on location in Morocco. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Near Fine. Lee The Heist Film. Olive FIlms 324. N.p. unknown
1957ref. 150862N.p.: N.p. 1957. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Luchino Visconti cinematogrpher Giuseppe Rotunno and Maria Schell on the set of the 1957 film. Loosely based on the 1848 short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Remade in 2008 as "Two Lovers" directed by James Gray and starring Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow. A young man Marcello Mastroianni new to the city meets a girl Schell crying on bridge for a lover who may not return striking up a tentative romance. 6.75 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine with light wear and creasing at extremities. Criterion Collection 296. N.p. unknown
1971ref. 154479N.p.: N.p. 1971. Draft script for the 1971 film. Text and titles in French. A coming of age story following an intelligent jazz loving teenage boy growing up in a complicated bourgeois family in 1950s Dijon. Nominated for an Academy Award. Set and shot on location in Dijon Yvelines and Nievre France. Orange titled wrappers. Title page present undated. 71 leaves with last page of text numbered 70. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages and wrapper Near Fine with perfect binding. Criterion Collection 328. N.p. unknown
1986ref. 154238Paris: Interpress 1986. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Marushka Detmers and director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of the 1983 film. Loosely based on Georges Bizet's 1875 opera. A young woman involved in a terrorist gang is embroiled in a plan to rob a bank but her plans are waylaid when she falls for the security guard. Set and shot on location in Paris. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Interpress unknown
1975ref. 154401New York: Independent International Pictures Corporation 1975. Vintage pressbook for the US release of the 1970 German exploitation film. Detective Perrak's investigation into the murder of a transgender woman leads into an underworld of sexual corruption and blackmail. Shot on location in Bendestorf and Hamburg Germany. 11 x 17 inches Bi-fold. Horizontally Folded as issued. Near Fine. Independent International Pictures Corporation unknown
1944ref. 154237N.p.: N.p. 1944. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1944 film showing actress Tallulah Bankhead sitting and reading a newspaper that makes reference to World War II. A group of survivors are stranded on a lifeboat following a Nazi attack on their merchant ship. Tensions are high as the group negotiates food rations and tries to plot a course to land or rescue. The first film in Alfred Hitchcock's "limited setting" series followed by "Rope" 1948 "Dial M for Murder" 1954 and "Rear Window" 1954. Shot on location in Florida and California. 5 x 4.25 inches. Near Fine. Eureka Masters of Cinema 30. N.p. unknown
1979ref. 150728N.p.: AVCO Embassy Pictures 1979. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1979 film. With the stamp of a Canadian film distributor on the verso and a stamp noting production No. 79-22 on the bottom right corner of the recto. Based on Sylvia Plath's influential semi-autobiographical 1963 novel about a young woman who suffers a series of mental breakdowns at her family's home in New England in the 1950s. Set in New York and New England shot on location in New Jersey and New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. AVCO Embassy Pictures unknown
1937ref. 154246New York: Filmarte 1937. Vintage reference photograph from the 1937 film showing L-R Jean Gabin Gaston Modot Pierre Fresnay Julien Carette Jean Daste and Marcel Dalio. Provenance stamp and library stamps to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A disparate group of French soldiers plan an escape from their German captors during World War I. Widely regarded as a masterpiece of French cinema a poignant look at nationalism class differences and prejudice. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to the corners. Criterion Collection 1. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Filmarte unknown
1966ref. 150731Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1966. Complete set of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the 1966 film. Based on Jack Finney's 1959 novel. A group of adventurers pull up a World War II submarine and plan to use it to rob the RMS Queen Mary a large cruise liner. Set in the Bahamas. 10 x 8 inches. One with light wear and pinholes to the corners else Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown
