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1973ref. 156210Paris: Paris Match 1973. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1973 film showing actress Paloma Picasso half-nude in costume as Elizabeth Bathory for the fourth segment of the film. Stamps of Paris-Match and France-Match on the verso along with the stamp of photographer G. Wurtz. Director Walerian Borowczyk's fourth feature length film a sexually explicit time-traveling romp ranging from the bloodthirsty exploits of Elizabeth Bathory to a nineteenth-century country girl masturbating to thoughts of Jesus Christ. 12 x 8 inches. Very Good only with moderate wear at the left and right edges and a fingernail-sized chip at the bottom left corner. Bier 354. Paris Match unknown books
1968ref. 156925Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1968. Revised Estimating script for the 1969 film. Based on the 1961 novel by Frank O'Rourke. A genre-bending film combining a heist feature and a comedy Western in which multiple gangs converge on Friendly Texas in order to attempt to rob the most unrobbable bank in the West. Tan titled wrappers noted as REV. ESTIMATING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 99 dated August 1 1968. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated August 1 1968 with credits for screenwriter William Peter Blatty. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 133. Mimeograph on yellow stock with pink Confidential page and white distribution page bound in at the front. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Pitts 1631. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
1964ref. 155108Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1964. Two vintage borderless reference photographs one double weight of director John Huston and playwright Tennessee Williams on location of the 1964 film. One photo with a National FIlm Archive stamp on verso and one with a Sunday Telegraph stamp on the verso. Based on Williams' 1961 play. An alcoholic former priest finds himself caught between the attentions of three women while leading a failing tour of Puerto Vallarta. Nominated for four Academy Awards winning one. Set and shot on location in Mismaloya and Puerto Vallarta Mexico the latter of which became a popular tourist destination after the film's release. 9 x 11 inches and 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
2002ref. 156807Los Angeles: Miramax 2002. For Your Consideration script for the 2002 film. Based on Michael Cunningham's 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about three women of different generations whose lives are connected by Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel "Mrs. Dalloway." Nominated for nine Academy Awards winning one for Best Actress for Nicole Kidman. Shot on location in Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood Florida and New York in the US and in London and Longborough in England. White titled wrappers undated with credits for screenwriter David Hare and novelist Michael Cunningham. 97 leaves with last page of text numbered 97. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. In a custom red cloth slipcase. Miramax unknown books
1964ref. 150645N.p.: N.p. 1964. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Philippe de Broca on the set of the 1964 film. Dufourquet Jean-Paul Belmondo is in Paris on shore leave eager to see his Agnes Francoise Dorléac. When he finally briefly sees her 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 Screenplay. Shot on location in Rio de Janeiro Brazil and Paris 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1960ref. 150632N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Philippe de Boca on the set of the 1960 film. Victor Jean-Pierre Cassel is in love with Suzanne Genevieve Cluny but doesn't understand her need for commitment and desire for a family until his friend Francois Jean-Louis Maury declares his willingness to offer Suzanne everything she wants. Shot on location in Paris France. 9.25 x 7 inches. Light creasing along top else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1962ref. 150683N.p.: N.p. 1962. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1962 film one of Michelangelo Antonioni with Alain Delon and Monica Vitti and one of Antonioni and crew shooting a scene in Rome from scaffolding built in the water. One with French "L'Eclipse" stamp and provenance stamp of film historian "Maurice Bessy" on verso one with "P.I.P." and "Copyright" stamps on verso. A woman's newfound relationship with a power-hungry stockbroker gradually erodes as she becomes dissatisfied with his shallow interests. The final film in Antonioni's modernity trilogy all starring Vitti preceded by "L'avventura" 1960 and "La notte" 1961. Awarded the Jury Special Prize and nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. Shot on location in Rome and Verona Italy. 6.75 x 9.25 inches and 9.5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing and edgewear. Criterion Collection 278. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese My Voyage to Italy. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown books
1966ref. 150657N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage borderless reference photograph with narrow top margin from the 1966 film. "Cinema 66" and "Rahrenheit 451" stamps on verso. Based on the 1953 novel by Ray Bradbury. Truffaut's fifth film set in a dystopian future in which all books are burned and free thought is discouraged. Set in and shot on location in England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1972ref. 150687N.p.: N.p. 1972. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Michelangelo Antonioni on the set of the 1972 film. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil and "Collection" stamp obscured struck with manuscript pencil on verso. In 1972 during China's Cultural Revolution Antonioni was invited by the People's Republic of China to direct a documentary on the "New China." The final film at 220 minutes was divided into three parts. The first focusing on Beijing the second Suzhou and the third Shanghai. In each section Antonioni focuses primarily on the faces of the people. Mao Zedong was reportedly so displeased with the film Antonioni was charged with being anti-Chinese and counterrevolutionary. Shot on location in Beijing Henan Jiangsu and Shanghai China. 6.75 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with very light creasing and a tiny bruise on mid right edge. N.p. unknown books
1968ref. 154428Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1968. Vintage reference photograph of Genevieve Bujold from the 1968 film. The first of Canadian director Paul Almond's ambitious trilogy with his then-wife Bujold followed by "Act of the Heart" 1970 and "Journey" 1972 attempting to establish an understated highly interiorized Canadian art cinema greatly influenced by Ingmar Bergman. Isabel finds herself haunted by memories from her childhood upon returning to her family's farm shortly after her mother's death. Set in and shot on location in Gaspe Peninsula Quebec Canada. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1975ref. 150678N.p.: N.p. 1975. Vintage reference photograph of François Truffaut and Isabelle Adjani on the set of the 1975 film. Based on the diaries of Adele Hugo youngest daughter of French writer Victor Hugo. Adele Hugo's Isababelle Adjani romantic obsession with the indifferent British officer Lieutenant Pinson Bruce Robinson leads her to follow him to Halifax and eventually succumb to madness and despair. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Adjani at age 20 making her the youngest nominee for the award at the time. Set in Halifax Nova Scotia shot on location in Senegal and Channel Islands. 12 x 9.5 inches. Light soiling in margin else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1984ref. 157842Beverly Hills CA: Orion 1984. Six vintage studio still photographs from the 1984 film. An extravagant production with a star-studded cast following the lives of musicians in the famed Jazz Age in Harlem who become involved in the dealings of local mobsters. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Set and shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Orion unknown books
1989ref. 157850Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1989. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1989 film. Two photographs with the stamp of photographer S. Karin Epstein on the verso. Having both been abandoned by their respective spouses a man and a woman living in New York begin dating but discover that their pasts make trust and respect difficult. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1982ref. 157840Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1982. Six vintage studio still photographs from the 1982 film. Two photographs with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. A young cadet begins dating a beautiful working girl during his time at the Naval Aviation training camp while attempting to survive in the punishing attitude of a hard-nosed Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant. Shot on location at Port Townsend and Fort Worden. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing and wear on the bottom edges. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1975ref. 157962Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1975 film showing director Steven Spielburg talking with producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. The film that basically invented the concept of the summer blockbuster forever changing how movies were greenlit and marketed and along with "Star Wars" two years later effectively signaling the end of the New Hollywood Cinema. Based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley. Winner of three Academy Awards with a fourth nomination for Best Picture. Set on the fictional Amity Island shot on location in Martha's Vineyard MA. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert II. Universal Pictures unknown books
1989ref. 157880Beverly Hills CA: Orion Pictures 1989. Vintage press kit for the 1989 film. Kit includes an oversize full color promotional graphic with credits on the verso four gatherings of promotional material and twelve black and white compilation studio still photographs all housed in a two-color "Great Balls of Fire" folder. Based on the biography "Great Balls of Fire: The Uncensored Story of Jerry Lee Lewis" by Myra Lewis and Murray M. Silver Jr. Dennis Quad stars as the arrogant remarkable and controversial Lewis whose career was derailed after marrying his thirteen year old cousin Myra Gale Brown played by Winona Ryder. Shot on location in Arkansas and Tennessee. Oversize promotional graphic 9 x 11.5 inches. Very Good plus with some light edgewear. Promotional materials 8.5 x 11 inches. Fine Photographs 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Folder 9 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus with some light edgewear and faint toning to the extremities. Olive 20031. Orion Pictures unknown books
1988ref. 157881Los Angeles: Cineplex-Odeon Films 1988. Vintage press kit for Academy screenings of the 1988 film. Kit includes a 31 page press booklet twelve black and white studio still photographs in their original glassine envelope twelve clippings of "For Your Consideration" ads for the film two ad clippings and an article clipping for the film two copies of "Photo Captions for Color Slides" presumably for the screenings and a Cineplex Odeon Films January Academy Screening Schedule bi-fold all housed in a color Cineplex Odeon Films folder. Laid in is a bi-fold for the 1988 Robert Altman television film "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" starring Eric Bogosian housing two clippings of articles and a promotional photograph of the cast. Based on the 1987 Pulitzer Prize nominated play by Eric Bogosian and Tad Savinar and the 1987 book "Talked to Death: The Life and Murder of Alan Berg" by Stephen Singular. Bogosian stars as the acerbic Jewish radio talk show host Barry Champlain who as his show is about to go nationwide must confront his distrust of the network management his dysfunctional relationship with his wife and the increasingly threatening neo-nazis angered by his outspoken opinions. One of director Oliver Stone's more modest and affecting films. Set in and shot on location in Dallas Texas. Folder and contents Near Fine. Cineplex-Odeon Films unknown books
1927ref. 148296Buffalo NY: Pathe Exchange 1927. Vintage reference photograph from the 1927 film showing actress Eileen Percy. A nightclub dancer is suspected of killing a foreign spy. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good with light wear and chipping to the margins image not affected and a light dampstain to the right edge. Pathe Exchange unknown books
1921ref. 148257Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1921. Vintage reference photograph of actress May McAvoy from the 1921 silent film. With the stamp of Realart Pictures on the verso. Today considered a lost film. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with a few small one inch tears and accompanying creasing to the edges. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1928ref. 148280Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1928. Vintage reference photograph from the 1928 film showing actress Dorothy Sebastian. Based on screenwriter Michael Arlen's 1924 novel "The Green Hat" which he also adapted for theatre in 1925 about two childhood sweethearts who are banned from marriage due to class differences. Arlen's novel was considered so daring in the US that producers attempted to distance the film from the source text as much as possible in order to placate the Hays Commission eliminating all references to drug use sexually transmitted diseases and homosexuality which were key points within the original narrative. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1922ref. 148249Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1922. Vintage linen-backed keybook photograph from the 1922 film showing actress Alma Rubens. With the stamp of Movie Star News on the verso. A corrupt theatrical agent turns up dead leading police to investigate a prospective client and several targets of the agent's blackmail scheme for the murder. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1926ref. 148247Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1926. Vintage reference photograph of actress Arlette Marchal from the 1926 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Zane Grey not published until a year after the film's release. A fugitive is left in the desert to die by his outlaw partner but is rescued by a young rancher unaware that romantic entanglements with a neighboring rancher's daughter will complicate their friendship. Now considered to be a lost film. Shot on location in Hurricane Bluffs Utah. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good with light toning and edgewear and a small chip to the right edge. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1967ref. 157986N.p.: N.p. 1967. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1967 film. One with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso regarding cropping. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A bold film adaptation of the controversial allegorical drama by Amiri Baraka writing here as he often did in the 1960s as Leroi Jones. An erratic white woman meets an African American man on a subway car. When he begins to respond to her erotic advances she begins to taunt him viciously goading him until he explodes into violence. Anthony Anthony Harvey's important and still impactful first directorial effort followed by many successful films including "The Lion in Winter" 1968 "They Might Be Giants" 1971 and "The Glass Menagerie" 1973. Set in New York with subway exteriors shot in Manhattan and interiors shot in London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 157979London: The Other Cinema 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 Canadian film. Stamps of The Other Cinema and ICA Press Office on the verso. In the future the Canadian Academy for Erotic Enquiry CAEE investigates the claims of a parapsychologist by recruiting seven volunteers to submit to a form of brain surgery that removes their power of speech but increases their telepathic ability. Director David Cronenberg's feature film debut. 9.75 x 7.75 inches. Near Fine. The Other Cinema unknown books
1921ref. 148293Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1921. Vintage press portrait photograph of Nita Naldi to publicize the 1921 film. With a seller stamp on the verso. Based on the 1914 Broadway play. A moral allegory wherein Youth Richard Barthelmess leaves home at the urgings of Ambition guided by Experience and Opportunity and hopefully not waylaid by Pleasure Beauty Temptation or Chance. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with a horizontal crease to the bottom edge and light even toning. Paramount Pictures unknown books
