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1985ref. 150336N.p.: N.p. 1985. Vintage oversize reference photograph of director Alan Rudolph and Genevieve Bujold on the set of the 1985 film. Ex-cop Hawk Kris Krisofferson released from jail after serving eight years for murder is in need of "a woman and a job" and returns to his former hangout Wanda's Cafe run by his ex Wanda Bujold. Wanda's new waitress Georgia Lori Singer whose errant husband Coop Keith Carradine has gotten embroiled in shady dealings catches Hawk's eye in Alan Rudolph's stylish unusual Neo-Noir. Set in the fictional Rain City shot on location in Seattle. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Carlson and Connolly Destroy All Movies: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film. N.p. unknown books
1973ref. 150574New York: National General Pictures 1973. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1973 film. An erotic thriller following a television reporter who becomes increasingly obsessed with filming his neighbors' private lives. Noted author Michael Crichton's first original screenplay. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National General Pictures unknown books
1992ref. 150347N.p.: N.p. 1992. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Louis Malle on the set of the 1992 film. Based on the 1991 novel by Josephine Hart. British cabinet minister Dr. Stephen Fleming Jeremy Irons falls desperately and obsessively in love with his son's fiancee Anna Juliette Binoche. After beginning a tempestuous affair Stephen tells Anna that he is willing to sacrifice his family and his cabinet position to be with her something which Anna has no intention of allowing. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Miranda Richardson. Shot on location in England and France. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1974ref. 150708Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1974. Collection of nine vintage studio still photographs from the 1974 film. Based on Jeff Jacks' 1971 novel "Murder on the Wild Side." A former police officer turned private eye investigates a silent film star's death which is linked to a mysterious religious cult moonlighting as a drug ring. Set and shot on location throughout California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 64 95. Warner Brothers unknown books
1975ref. 150745N.p.: Premiere Releasing 1975. Six vintage studio issued still photographs from the 1975 film. A cop pursues a serial killer responsible for a string of murders of cocktail waitresses at a popular club. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Premiere Releasing unknown books
1969ref. 150740Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1969. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film. Adapted by director Elia Kazan from his own 1967 novel about an advertising executive on the verge of a nervous breakdown balancing the demands of his unhappy wife younger mistress and dying father. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles and New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
1991ref. 150744N.p.: Alliance Entertainment 1991. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1991 film. An unorthodox insurance claims adjuster and his family are approached by a wealthy voyeuristic couple who want to make a film in their house. Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan's fourth feature a fetishistic and unsettling psychological journey. Shot on location in Toronto. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Alliance Entertainment unknown books
1971ref. 150773Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM / EMI 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 musical film showing actresses Georgina Hale Sally Bryant Antonia Ellis and Caryl Little. Based on the 1953 West End musical by Sandy Wilson about a mousy stage manager forced to take the lead in a low-budget musical revue after the lead actress breaks her leg. While Wilson's original is a straightforward pastiche of 1920s musicals director Ken Russell's adaptation is a full-blown parody of 1930s musical films particularly Busby Berkeley with heavy metatextual elements as the more lavish numbers take place in the imagination of a Hollywood producer watching the show. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] / EMI unknown books
1967ref. 150716Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1967. Collection of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the US release of the 1967 British film. With a stamp noting production No. 68-43 on the bottom right corner of the recto. Based on Len Deighton's 1966 novel. A private eye takes on a case involving a sophisticated computer used by an anticommunist global spy network. The third and last film in the Harry Palmer series preceded by "The Ipcress File" 1965 and "Funeral in Berlin" 1966. Set and shot on location throughout Finland and England. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1979ref. 150770N.p.: New World Pictures 1979. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1979 film. With the stamp of a Canadian film distributor on the verso. Canadian auteur David Cronenberg's sixth film completed shortly after an acrimonious divorce following the dissolving relationship between a demonically disturbed man and his mentally ill ex-wife who is confined in an unorthodox controversial psychiatric institute. Although the film initially received mixed critical reception it has since been reconsidered as a cult film notable in particular for its frank discussion of mental illness and motherhood. Set and shot on location in Toronto and Mississauga Ontario. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. Canuxploitation Complete. Criterion Collection 777. New World Pictures unknown books
1972ref. 150718Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1972. Complete set of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the US release of the 1971 Italian film. A police detective investigates a string of murders where the victims are paralyzed and disemboweled. Set and shot on location in Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1962ref. 150717Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1962. Vintage borderless studio still photograph from the 1962 film. Stamped production No. 63-83 on the verso and on the bottom right corner of the recto. Based on Allen Drury's Pulitzer Prize-winning political shocker of 1959 but detached from the novel's Cold War agenda about how American government functions in a free society. Set in Washington DC and shot on location there. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall with a short closed tear to the left edge. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1960ref. 150715Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1960. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1960 film. Seven with dealer stamps on the verso. Not to be confused with the 1950 film of the same name. A group of teenagers find a briefcase of money leading to discord and consternation about what to do with the cash. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1930ref. 151357Los Angeles: First National Pictures 1930. Archive of 68 vernacular photographs housed in a contemporary photo album each photo with descriptions in silver manuscript ink just below it and distributed in three sections as follows: 1 34 photos taken on the set of "The Dawn Patrol" Howard Hawks 1930 an aviation drama set during World War I. Included are shots of planes in flight and several others of star Douglas Fairbanks Jr. With manuscript annotations to the album pages identifying most of the photographs; 2 16 vernacular photographs taken on the set of the pre-Code film "The Life of the Party" Roy Del Ruth 1930 and 18 vernacular photographs of the sinking of the RMS Tahiti off cost of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands on August 16-17 1930 taken from the nearby SS Ventura. The front cover of the photo album identifies the photographer as J.N. Boucher and he appears four times in the album twice dressed as a pilot in "The Dawn Patrol" section and twice in "The Life of the Party" section in one standing in front of a Vitaphone truck along with a man identified as Dolph Thomas who worked as an uncredited sound engineer on the film. Photographs variously sized generally between 3.5 x 2.5 and 5.25 x 3.25 inches Very Good plus. Photo album Good only with several pages detached a few loose photographs. First National Pictures unknown books
1985ref. 151372N.p.: N.p. 1985. Collection of 25 vintage reference photographs from the 1985 film. A multiethnic group of pizza delivery boys are united by their shared interest in break dancing. Set and shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. McPadden Teen Movie Hell. N.p. unknown books
1975ref. 149627Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1975. Set of seven vintage reference photographs from the 1975 film five in black and white one in color the last being a striking still shot of the altered RKO Radio Picture logo one of the earliest examples of a stately studio logo being customized for a particular film. A cult film favorite based on a now lesser-known 1973 stage musical by Richard O'Brien. On a dark and stormy night an uptight young couple finds that their car has broken down in the middle of nowhere forcing them to seek shelter at the weird and wonderful home of Dr. Frank-N-Furter a mad and perverse scientist. Photos vary from 9.25 x 7 inches to 10.25 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. National Film Registry. McPadden Heavy Metal Movies. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1976ref. 151230Burbank CA: Columbia Pictures 1976. Vintage reference photograph from the 1976 film showing Peter Bogdanovich directing actor Burt Reynolds with actor Alan Gibbs looking on to the right. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Bogdanovich's ode to silent film. A lawyer turned film director falls hopelessly in love with his beautiful but klutzy leading lady who is in turn engaged to a vile action actor. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1981ref. 151236N.p.: N.p. 1981. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1981 film showing actress Lynn Hancock. An unpopular orphaned military cadet seeks revenge on his bullies by summoning demonic spirits through his computer. Shot on location in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Nightmare USA. N.p. unknown books
1951ref. 151232Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1951. 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. United Artists unknown books
1965ref. 151229N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1965 film showing actresses Lucy Bartlett and Charlotte Rampling in between takes wearing matching wetsuits. Based on Ann Jellicoe's 1962 play. An awkward young man seeks out the help of his slick womanizing flatmate in learning how to seduce women but trouble arises when they both set their marks on the same girl. Although nominally a comedy a film that bears far more similarity to a kitchen sink drama due largely to its polarizing final act. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Set and shot on location in London. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1959ref. 151251N.p.: N.p. 1959. Vintage reference photograph from the 1959 film showing actors Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. An innocent man is pursued across the US by a group of foreign spies who have mistaken him for a government agent. Widely considered one of director Alfred Hitchcock's best films the last of four the director made with Cary Grant with a score by Bernard Hermann and a famous title sequence by Saul Bass. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. Penzler 101. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1961ref. 151262N.p.: N.p. 1961. Vintage reference photograph of director John Cassavetes in conversation with actors Bobby Darin and Stella Stevens on the set of the 1961 film. With manuscript pencil layout annotations on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Struggling jazz musician John "Ghost" Wakefield Bobby Darin pursues a romantic relationship with beautiful singer Jess Polanski Stella Stevens to the detriment of both parties' careers. John Cassavetes' second directorial effort following "Shadows" 1958 and his first film made for a Hollywood studio. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall with a few nicks to the top left corner. Olive Films 391. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1959ref. 149576Rome: Union Photos 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1959 Italian film showing actress Elsa Martinelli. With the stamps of Union Photos and Atlantic Press on the verso. Loosely based on Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1955 novel "Ragazzi di vita" following three amoral young men as they make their way through Rome's seedy criminal underworld. The third collaboration between director Mauro Bolognini and screenwriter Pasolini who would of course go on to become a great and arguably better-known filmmaker in his own right preceded by "Marisa" 1957 and "Giovani mariti" 1958 and followed by "Bell' Antonio" 1960 and "From a Roman Balcony" 1960. Set and shot on location in Rome. 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Union Photos unknown books
1959ref. 151243N.p.: N.p. 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1959 film showing actor Anthony Perkins balancing a folding chair on his chin. With the stamps of Globe Photos and Pictorial Press on the verso and a printed mimeo snipe. A Venezuelan man flees his home country to avoid a revolution traveling to the Amazon forest where he meets and falls in love with a young orphan named Rima. Shot on location in Santa Clarita California and in Venezuela Guyana and Colombia. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly edgeworn and faintly toned. N.p. unknown books
1965ref. 151250Burbank CA: Warner-Pathe 1965. Collection of eight vintage reference photographs from the 1965 British film and one vintage photograph of actors Monica Vitti and Dirk Bogarde at the film's premiere in London in September 1965. Four with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A cynical look at Swinging London about a shiftless fashion model who sleeps her way into high society only to be left empty and alone when she finally marries a rich prince. Nominated for five Academy Awards winning three including Best Actress for Julie Christie and Best Original Screenplay. Set and shot on location in London Paris and Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner-Pathe unknown books
