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1960ref. 149354Paris: Balzac 1960. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1960 French film showing director Jean-Pierre Mocky actors Juliette Mayniel Jean Kosta and other members of the cast and crew. With numbered stamps on the verso. A husband and wife decide to separate when they realize their relationship lacks sexual excitement after three years together. Shot on location in France. 6.75 x 5.5 inches. About Near Fine. Balzac 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
1964ref. 139875Paris: Les Films de Mai 1964. Vintage borderless double weight studio still photographs from the 1964 French film. Featuring an image of two men boxing in front of a couple onlookers. A woman Madeline Robinson begins a relationship with a West Indian boxer Rene Lefevre twenty years her junior who wins the admiration of her young son until neighborhood drama forces the two apart. Set in Paris and shot there on location. 8 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine. Les Films de Mai unknown books
ref. 152527N.p.: N.p. 1970. Dialogue transcript for the infamous unfinished film musical undated circa 1968. Copy belonging to Frank Zappa with a single annotation in Zappa's hand on the top of the first page. Full provenance available. A transcript detailing multiple takes of ten scenes shot by Zappa for his long-planned but never finished experimental film. Transcript primarily addresses scenes featuring Don Preston and Phyllis Smith Altenhaus but also contains dialogue intended to be spoken by Carl Zappa Billy Mundi Aynsley Dunbar Jimmy Carl Black and Zappa himself. Originally innovated in 1967 by Zappa featuring his then-band the Mothers of Invention the film would morph in various ways over the course of the next decade but would ultimately never come to fruition due to a lack of financing. In 1969 the Mothers of Invention released the acclaimed double album "Uncle Meat" an instrumental soundtrack to the unfinished film. Finally in 1987 a direct-to-video "making of" documentary of the uncompleted film was released. Transparent front wrapper with orange back wrapper and spine. 59 leaves with last page of text numbered 58. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages with light stain on first leaf else Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. N.p. unknown books
1950ref. 160936Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1950. Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1950 film. Based on the 1923 short story "My Old Man" by Ernest Hemingway. John Garfield stars as a crooked washed-up expatriate jockey on the run from a racketeer for not throwing a race while trying to redeem himself for the sake of his son. Remade in 1979 as the CBS television film "My Old Man" directed by John Erman and starring Kristy McNichol and Warren Oates. Shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. 4.75 x 28 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the extremities. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1984ref. 150425Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1984. Vintage black and white portrait photograph of director John Huston from the 1984 film. With a newspaper clipping affixed to the verso along with a mimeo snipe and a date stamp reading "RECEIVED FEB 16 1983." Based on the 1947 semi-autobiographical novel by Malcolm Lowry. A former British consul in a small Mexican town reunites with his wife after her yearlong absence due to his alcoholism. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Actor for Albert Finney as well as the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Set in 1938 Quauhnahuac Mexico and shot on location throughout Morelos Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 410. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1984ref. 150267Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1984. Vintage studio portrait photograph of director John Huston from the 1984 film. Based on the 1947 semi-autobiographical novel by Malcolm Lowry. A brilliant performance by Albert Finney as Geoffrey Firmin an alcoholic British consul in a small Mexican town on the Day of the Dead. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Actor for Finney as well as the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Set in 1938 Quauhnahuac Mexico and shot on location throughout Morelos Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 410. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1984ref. 151603Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1984. Vintage press kit for the 1984 film. Black and white pocketed folder containing 14 black and white photographs housed in a brown paper envelope and 9 gatherings of promotional reading material. Based on the 1947 semi-autobiographical novel by Malcolm Lowry. A former British consul in a small Mexican town reunites with his wife after her yearlong absence due to his alcoholism. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Actor for Albert Finney as well as the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Set in 1938 Quauhnahuac Mexico and shot on location throughout Morelos Mexico. Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. Criterion Collection 410. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1950ref. 164812Universal City: Universal Pictures 1950. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1950 film noir showing actress Alexis Smith. A young woman joins the police department in order to find and stop the killer responsible for her father's death. Actor Royal Dano's film debut. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. Set in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown books
1995ref. 166110N.p.: N.p. 1995. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1995 Serbian film showing director Emir Kusturica adjusting an inverted statue of Jesus. A history of Yugoslavia spanning World War II the Cold War and the Yugoslav Wars told through the friendship between two black marketeers selling weapons to the Communist resistance in wartime Belgrade. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Belgrade Serbia in Plovdiv and Sofia Bulgaria in Prague and in Berlin. 7 x 5 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown books
ref. 146547N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few small manuscript ink annotations to the title page. After a dissatisfying experience with a prostitute a man begins to have a number of hallucinatory experiences while sitting in a bar. Blue untitled card wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Frank Flannery. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light dampstaining on the front wrapper bound with a silver clasp. N.p. unknown books
1958ref. 160810Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1958. Vintage banner poster for the 1958 film. Based on the 1957 nonfiction book "The Naked Warriors" by Commander Francis Douglas Fane about the evolution of the US Navy's Underwater Demolition Unit beginning with its inception near the end of World War II through it's utilization in the Korean War. 82 x 24 inches. Very Good with light soiling overall foxing to the left margin a 1.5 inch closed tear to the bottom center margin several pinholes throughout and a 1.5 inch closed tear to the center with corresponding rubbing and creasing between the a and r of "Warrior". Otherwise bright and unfaded. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1958ref. 141439Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Text in Japanese. The first film to be credited to Suzuki by his assumed name a man released from prison needs money and goes to retrieve diamonds sought after by fellow yakuza members. White titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 12. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Nikkatsu unknown books
1982ref. 151015N.p.: N.p. 1982. Three vintage reference photographs from the set of the 1982 film one of Jacques Demy and Dominique Sanda and two of Demy and crew with camera. One with with provenance stamp of film scholar and author "Jean-Pierre Berthome" on verso. Although similar to Demy's 1964 "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" in that it is an operettta-musical in which all the dialogue is sung here Demy is much more explicitly political and possibly even more tragic. Set during the Nantes worker's strike in 1955 shipyard worker Francois Guilbaud a strikers falls in love with his upper-class landlady's married daughter Edith. Set in and shot on location in Nantes France. 1 9.5 x 6 inches 2 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 719. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1990ref. 162072N.p.: Images et Loisirs 1990. Vintage flyer for a re-release of the 1969 French film. Text and titles in French. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Based on the 1876 short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky about a man reflecting on his wife's recent unexplained suicide. 5 x 8 inches. Single leaf recto and verso. Fine. Radiance Films 151. Images et Loisirs 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. 154508N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage reference photograph from the 1965 film showing the scantily clad posterior of Amidou. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Five teenagers decide to leave school and study at a "school for criminals." Director Claude Lelouch's first commercial success. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1948ref. 148200Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1948. Vintage studio still photograph of Kurt Kreuger Linda Darnell and Rex Harrison from the 1948 film. Sturges set a goal of combining what is today known as a film noir dynamic with his trademark literate screwball comedy dialogue and structure making a movie that is today still as unique as it is classic. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 292. Selby US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1948ref. 135654Berlin: Nero AG 1948. Vintage black-and-white photograph of director Preston Sturges and actors Linda Darnell and Rex Harrison on the set of the 1948 film. 8 x 10 inches 20.5 x 25.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 292. Nero AG unknown books
1941ref. 164506Universal City: Universal Studios 1941. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1941 film showing actress Irene Dunne in a lace-embellished dress and net fascinator. Printed mimeo snipe and provenance stamp on the verso. A small-town singer falls in love with a city playboy on a train to New York only for him to ignore her as soon as the train pulls into the station. Days later after gaining a job as a nightclub singer she is propositioned by the playboy's brother. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Studios unknown books
1992ref. 168113Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1992. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1992 film showing actor Gene Hackman. Clint Eastwood's best-loved directorial effort about a long-retired killer who having lost his wife agrees to work with a bounty hunter to find a group of lawmen responsible for disfiguring a prostitute and placing a town under corrupt rule. Nominated for nine Academy Awards winning four including Best Picture Best Director and Best Supporting Actor for Hackman. Set in Big Whiskey Wyoming and Hodgeman County Kansas and shot on location in Alberta Canada. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine lightly worn at the bottom right edge. National Film Registry. Ebert II. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Warner Brothers unknown books
1980ref. 171010N.p.: N.p. 1980. Vintage reference photograph from the 1980 neo-noir film showing Debbie Harry and Everett McGill. Based on 1937 Cornell Woolrich story "Union City: The Corpse Next Door" about a married accountant who kills a vagrant in an obsessive fury. An early screen appearance by Harry preceding her better-known roles in "Videodrome" 1983 and "Hairspray" 1988. All photos 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1950ref. 154518Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1950. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1950 film noir showing actors William Holden and Barry Fitzgerald. A woman suspects several fellow train passengers of being the culprits in a highly publicized kidnapping case. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light wear to the corners. Grant US. Olive Films 256. Selby US Canon. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1966ref. 167847N.p.: Tonylyn Productions 1966. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1966 film showing actors Tommy Kirk and Anne Helm. Old dealer annotation on the verso. A pair of newlyweds consult an erotic psychiatrist in order to help the groom overcome his sexual obsession with Mother Goose. Actor Tommy Kirk was better known for his career as a child actor with Walt Disney Studios in the late 1950s and 1960s although Disney dropped him after news of his homosexuality threatened to become public. He continued acting in various low-budget films working with Bert I. Gordon Larry Buchanan Jack Harris and others before ultimately retiring from the screen in the 1970s. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Tonylyn Productions unknown books
1970ref. 158722London: Mediarts 1970. Revised Draft script for the 1971 British film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their annotations in manuscript ink on seven leaves noting deletions. Based on the 1958 radio drama by Giles Cooper about a boarding school teacher who begins to suspect his predecessor of having been murdered by the students. OCLC locates no holdings. AMPAS shows one holding. Set in Cornwall and shot on location in Llandudno Wales and in Sonning Berkshire. Missing front wrapper with pink rear wrapper. Title page present dated May 1970 noted as REVISED with credits for playwright Giles Cooper and screenwriter Simon Raven. 151 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages laid in throughout dated August 7 1970. Pages Poor wrapper Poor with moderate dampstaining affecting the last 60 leaves and rear wrapper bound with a silver prong. Mediarts unknown books
