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1977ref. 132299N.p.: N.p. 1977. Original Polish one sheet poster for the Polish release of the 1975 British/American film designed by Anna Mikke. Based on the 1973 play by Adrian Mitchell which was based on the classic 1719 novel "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe. A post-civil rights movement take on the Defoe classic wherein Crusoe finds himself stranded on an island with a black islander whom he names Friday and finds himself incapable of seeing the islander beyond his narrow and racist colonialist worldview. Nominated for the Palm d'Or. 23 x 32.5 inches. Very Good with light dampstaining to the right side. N.p. unknown
1977ref. 132299N.p.: N.p. 1977. Original Polish one sheet poster for the Polish release of the 1975 British/American film designed by Anna Mikke. Based on the 1973 play by Adrian Mitchell which was based on the classic 1719 novel "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe. A post-civil rights movement take on the Defoe classic wherein Crusoe finds himself stranded on an island with a black islander whom he names Friday and finds himself incapable of seeing the islander beyond his narrow and racist colonialist worldview. Nominated for the Palm d'Or. 23 x 32.5 inches. Very Good with light dampstaining to the right side. N.p. unknown books
1960ref. 143203Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1960. Post-production script for the 1961 film. Based on the novel by Kazu Otsuka. A literal and metaphorical title to Shohei Imamura's fifth feature depicting postwar Japan's distrust of the west's cultural imperialism and his fascination with the pimps and prostitutes who benefit from the American presence at the naval base Yokosuka. Imamura drew from his own experience as a black market hustler and spent time with gangsters researching the film. Highly controversial upon release Nikkatsu suspended Imamaura from making films for two years with the release of "Pigs and Battleships." Imamura began his film career as an assistant to Yaujiro Ozu a director he veered severely from in style and tone. Imamura quickly realized his interest in focusing on the lower strata of Japanese society seeing himself as more of a cultural anthropologist. Imamura moved on to Japan's oldes major movie studio Nikkatsu and worked as an assistant to Yuzo Kawashima who gave Imamura his first opportunity directing B films targeted toward the postwar youth. Imamura established his own production company in 1965 to free himself of studio interference and is considered a leading figure in Japanese New Wave cinema. Set in Yokosuka. White titled wrappers rubber-stamped production No. 11885. Title page present . 71 leaves with last page of text numbered 9-5. Mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good mild foxing and mold spores along spine both wrappers and paper edge. Criterion Collection 472. Eureka Masters of Cinema 21. Nikkatsu unknown
1960ref. 143203Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1960. Post-production script for the 1961 film. Based on the novel by Kazu Otsuka. A literal and metaphorical title to Shohei Imamura's fifth feature depicting postwar Japan's distrust of the west's cultural imperialism and his fascination with the pimps and prostitutes who benefit from the American presence at the naval base Yokosuka. Imamura drew from his own experience as a black market hustler and spent time with gangsters researching the film. Highly controversial upon release Nikkatsu suspended Imamaura from making films for two years with the release of "Pigs and Battleships." Imamura began his film career as an assistant to Yaujiro Ozu a director he veered severely from in style and tone. Imamura quickly realized his interest in focusing on the lower strata of Japanese society seeing himself as more of a cultural anthropologist. Imamura moved on to Japan's oldes major movie studio Nikkatsu and worked as an assistant to Yuzo Kawashima who gave Imamura his first opportunity directing B films targeted toward the postwar youth. Imamura established his own production company in 1965 to free himself of studio interference and is considered a leading figure in Japanese New Wave cinema. Set in Yokosuka. White titled wrappers rubber-stamped production No. 11885. Title page present . 71 leaves with last page of text numbered 9-5. Mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good mild foxing and mold spores along spine both wrappers and paper edge. Criterion Collection 472. Eureka Masters of Cinema 21. Nikkatsu unknown books
1983ref. 150126Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1983. Three vintage borderless reference photographs and a triple parallel fold color brochure in Japanese from the 1983 pinku film. Directed by Yoshimitsu Morita director of the acclaimed film "Kazoku Gemu" "The Family Game" 1983 and winner of the Japanese Academy Award for Best Director for "Ashura no Gotoku" "Like Asura" 2003 and nominated for eight others. Mayumi and her friend Mai make a killing when they open a barber and beauty shop which serves customers in the nude. A Japanese "pink" film for Nikkatsu Studio's "Roman Porno" series. Pink film is a broad genre of low budget Japanese softcore films though often with artistic and visual inventiveness and narrative drive far beyond their American counterparts. Nikkatsu was particularly well known for allowing almost unlimited artistic freedom to filmmakers as long as they met the studio mandated requirement of four nude or sex scenes per hour of running time. Photographs: 6 x 4.25 inches Brochure: Folded 4.75 x 6.75 inches. Open 28.75 x 6.75 inches. Near Fine. Nikkatsu unknown
1983ref. 150126Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1983. Three vintage borderless reference photographs and a triple parallel fold color brochure in Japanese from the 1983 pinku film. Directed by Yoshimitsu Morita director of the acclaimed film "Kazoku Gemu" "The Family Game" 1983 and winner of the Japanese Academy Award for Best Director for "Ashura no Gotoku" "Like Asura" 2003 and nominated for eight others. Mayumi and her friend Mai make a killing when they open a barber and beauty shop which serves customers in the nude. A Japanese "pink" film for Nikkatsu Studio's "Roman Porno" series. Pink film is a broad genre of low budget Japanese softcore films though often with artistic and visual inventiveness and narrative drive far beyond their American counterparts. Nikkatsu was particularly well known for allowing almost unlimited artistic freedom to filmmakers as long as they met the studio mandated requirement of four nude or sex scenes per hour of running time. Photographs: 6 x 4.25 inches Brochure: Folded 4.75 x 6.75 inches. Open 28.75 x 6.75 inches. Near Fine. Nikkatsu unknown books
1982ref. 152320London: United International Pictures 1982. Two vintage borderless reference photographs taken on the set of the 1982 film one showing director Alan Parker director of animation Gerald Scarfe and cameraman John Stanier in conversation the other showing Parker and actor Bob Geldof. With printed mimeo snipes on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Pink Floyd's 1979 rock opera about a young rock star named Pink whose troubled childhood in 1950s England leads him into an adulthood marred by isolation and depression and eventually complete mental collapse. Shot on location in London and Quebec. 10 x 8 inches with wide bottom margins. Near Fine. Ebert IV. United International Pictures unknown
1982ref. 152320London: United International Pictures 1982. Two vintage borderless reference photographs taken on the set of the 1982 film one showing director Alan Parker director of animation Gerald Scarfe and cameraman John Stanier in conversation the other showing Parker and actor Bob Geldof. With printed mimeo snipes on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Pink Floyd's 1979 rock opera about a young rock star named Pink whose troubled childhood in 1950s England leads him into an adulthood marred by isolation and depression and eventually complete mental collapse. Shot on location in London and Quebec. 10 x 8 inches with wide bottom margins. Near Fine. Ebert IV. United International Pictures unknown books
1949ref. 148820Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1949. Vintage reference photograph from the 1949 film showing actors Jeanne Crain Nina Mae McKinney and Frederick O'Neal. Based on Cid Ricketts Sumner's 1946 novel "Quality." A light-skinned young African-American woman Jeanne Crain lives in the north where she can easily pass for white but is forced to return to her home town in the Souh to visit her elderly grandmother. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1949ref. 150526N.p.: N.p. 1949. Vintage double weight reference photograph of Elia Kazan and Ethel Barrymore on the set of the 1949 film. Based on the 1946 novel "Quality" by Cid Ricketts Sumner. When Pinky Johnson Jeanne Crain returns home to the South to visit her grandmother she confesses that she's been passing for a white woman while up North studying to be a nurse. She also confesses she is in love with Dr. Thomas Adams William Lundigan a white man unaware she is black. Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Actress and two Best Supporting Actress nominations. 10 x 8 inches. Very light rippling on right edge else Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1949ref. 148820Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1949. Vintage reference photograph from the 1949 film showing actors Jeanne Crain Nina Mae McKinney and Frederick O'Neal. Based on Cid Ricketts Sumner's 1946 novel "Quality." A light-skinned young African-American woman Jeanne Crain lives in the north where she can easily pass for white but is forced to return to her home town in the Souh to visit her elderly grandmother. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1949ref. 150526N.p.: N.p. 1949. Vintage double weight reference photograph of Elia Kazan and Ethel Barrymore on the set of the 1949 film. Based on the 1946 novel "Quality" by Cid Ricketts Sumner. When Pinky Johnson Jeanne Crain returns home to the South to visit her grandmother she confesses that she's been passing for a white woman while up North studying to be a nurse. She also confesses she is in love with Dr. Thomas Adams William Lundigan a white man unaware she is black. Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Actress and two Best Supporting Actress nominations. 10 x 8 inches. Very light rippling on right edge else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1985ref. 147215N.p.: N.p. 1985. First Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few small manuscript ink proofreading annotations throughout. A Cold War comedy about a kind but unstable translator for the USSR who must balance the amorous intentions of the US President's aide with the warring factions of their separate countries over the course of a prolonged summit meeting. Screenwriter Paul D. Zimmerman was best known for the successful crime film "The King of Comedy" Scorsese 1982. Set in Russia Vienna and Washington DC. White titled self-wrappers. Title page present dated December 1985 noted as First-Draft with credits for screenwriters Paul D. Zimmerman and Peter Benchley. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus unbound. N.p. unknown
1985ref. 147215N.p.: N.p. 1985. First Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few small manuscript ink proofreading annotations throughout. A Cold War comedy about a kind but unstable translator for the USSR who must balance the amorous intentions of the US President's aide with the warring factions of their separate countries over the course of a prolonged summit meeting. Screenwriter Paul D. Zimmerman was best known for the successful crime film "The King of Comedy" Scorsese 1982. Set in Russia Vienna and Washington DC. White titled self-wrappers. Title page present dated December 1985 noted as First-Draft with credits for screenwriters Paul D. Zimmerman and Peter Benchley. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus unbound. N.p. unknown books
1978ref. 169547N.p.: N.p. 1978. Four vintage borderless reference photographs of characters in various states of bodily distress from the 1978 film. A satirical low-budget cult classic wherein a school of flesh-eating piranhas is released into a summer resort's river. Purportedly named by Steven Spielberg as "the best of the Jaws rip-offs." Shot on location in California and Texas. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown
1978ref. 169547N.p.: N.p. 1978. Four vintage borderless reference photographs of characters in various states of bodily distress from the 1978 film. A satirical low-budget cult classic wherein a school of flesh-eating piranhas is released into a summer resort's river. Purportedly named by Steven Spielberg as "the best of the Jaws rip-offs." Shot on location in California and Texas. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown books
1978ref. 156029Geneva: Septima Film 1978. Four vintage oversize double weight photographs from the Swiss release of the 1978 adult film. With the stamp of Swiss distributor Septima Film on the verso. A failing pizza restaurant in San Francisco begins to offer more than just pizza with their deliveries. Directed by noted Chinese-American adult filmmaker Bob Chinn re-released in a new restoration by Vinegar Syndrome in 2014. Shot on location in Oakland San Francisco and Berkeley California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine unusually mounted on thick stock with keybook style holes at the corners for use in adult film theaters. Vinegar Syndrome 55. Septima Film unknown
1978ref. 156029Geneva: Septima Film 1978. Four vintage oversize double weight photographs from the Swiss release of the 1978 adult film. With the stamp of Swiss distributor Septima Film on the verso. A failing pizza restaurant in San Francisco begins to offer more than just pizza with their deliveries. Directed by noted Chinese-American adult filmmaker Bob Chinn re-released in a new restoration by Vinegar Syndrome in 2014. Shot on location in Oakland San Francisco and Berkeley California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine unusually mounted on thick stock with keybook style holes at the corners for use in adult film theaters. Vinegar Syndrome 55. Septima Film unknown books
ref. 014295[Monument Catulle Mendès] Romain Coolus (1868-1952), écrivain, scénariste. P.A.S., mai 1909, 1p in-8 oblong. Billet de souscription pré-imprimé pour la soirée de Gala pour l'érection du monument Catulle Mendès (1841-1909), mort le 8 février 1909. Lors de cette soirée, au théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt, la grande actrice joua le rôle de Cyrano de Bergerac et le sculpteur Emile Guillaume (1867-1954) y présenta son buste du poète (il avait aussi fait un masque mortuaire). [341]
ref. 0217410 Suite de 4 photographies d'exploitation plastifiées d'origine, du célèbre film sorti en 1967, format : H. 23,8 cm - L. 30,2 cm. (traces de rayure sur le plastique, numéro inscrit au feutre noir au dos de chacune des photos, petit manque de plastique sur 2 coins à une photo). Jacques Tati est présent sur 2 photos. Peu courant.
1983ref. 162428N.p.: N.p. 1983. Third Draft script for the 1984 film seen here under the working title "The Texas Picture." Single annotation in manuscript ink on the title page noting copy No. 39. During the Great Depression a recently widowed mother fights to defend her family farm from repossession. Nominated for seven Academy Awards winning two including Best Actress for Sally Field and Best Screenplay. Set in Waxahachie Texas and shot on location in Waxahachie and Five Points Texas. Red titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present dated August 12 1983 noted as Third Draft with credit for screenwriter Robert Benton. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 138. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold screw brads. N.p. unknown
1984ref. 150180Culver City CA: TriStar 1984. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1984 film showing actor John Malkovich. With a printed mimeo snipe on the verso along with several newspaper clippings showing the photograph in use and the stamp of a newspaper archive. A recently widowed woman struggles to maintain her family farm and care for her two young children in a small town in Texas in the midst of the Great Depression. Nominated for seven Academy Awards winning two for Best Screenplay and Best Actress for Sally Field. Set in Waxahachie Texas and shot on location in Five Points and Waxahachie Texas. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with manuscript pencil annotations regarding cropping on the recto. TriStar unknown books
1983ref. 162428N.p.: N.p. 1983. Third Draft script for the 1984 film seen here under the working title "The Texas Picture." Single annotation in manuscript ink on the title page noting copy No. 39. During the Great Depression a recently widowed mother fights to defend her family farm from repossession. Nominated for seven Academy Awards winning two including Best Actress for Sally Field and Best Screenplay. Set in Waxahachie Texas and shot on location in Waxahachie and Five Points Texas. Red titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present dated August 12 1983 noted as Third Draft with credit for screenwriter Robert Benton. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 138. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold screw brads. N.p. unknown books
1960ref. 168180Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1960. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1960 film. A man travels to a remote military academy to inquire about his son reported to have died in an unspecified accident only to learn that the boy's death was caused by a violent hazing ritual. 10 x 8 inches. Lightly toned else Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1960ref. 168180Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1960. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1960 film. A man travels to a remote military academy to inquire about his son reported to have died in an unspecified accident only to learn that the boy's death was caused by a violent hazing ritual. 10 x 8 inches. Lightly toned else Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
