Rome: Cineriz, 1962. Archive of five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1962 Italian anthology film, showing actors Anita Ekberg in various poses, one with Ekberg and Peppino De Filippo canoodling under a streetlight. With the stamp of still photographer Paul Ronald on the verso of each.A four-episode anthology exploring different aspects of morality and love, directed by Federico Fellini.....

Rome: Produzioni Europee Associati [PEA], 1976. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Donald Sutherland and Cicely Browne getting it on in high style in the 1976 film. Cattarinich did still photography work for many interesting and prominent directors in the 1970s and 1980s, including Pedro Almodovar, Joe D'Amato, Marco Ferreri, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, among others. Producer Dino De Laurentiis.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1955. Collection of four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1955 Italian film. With the stamp of still photographer G.B. Poletto on the verso, and one with a printed mimeo snipe specific to the film's French release affixed to the verso.A trio of small-time, ruthless con artists undergo crises of conscience after facing the condemnation of their.....

Rome: Riama Film, 1960. Vintage oversize borderless double weight press photograph of Anouk Aimee from the 1960 film. With agency stamps on the verso. Fellini's most pivotal film, if not his finest. Unlike the more sentimental and abstract films that would follow, "La Dolce Vita" is an unflinching 7-day journey through 1960s Rome, with Mastroianni, a jaded journalist at the.....

N.p. N.p., 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Giulietta Masina, Federico Fellini, and crew, on the set of the 1965 film. "Rizzoli Press" and "Atlantic Press" stamps on verso. Set in and shot on location in Rome. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 49. Ebert II. Scorsese, My Voyage to Italy.

N.p. N.p., Circa 1972. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Federico Fellini demonstrating how to stab Julius Caear (Feodor Chaliapin, Jr.) on the set of the 1972 film. "Peter W. Engelmeier provenance label on verso.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.....

Rome: Vera Films, 1960. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Anita Ekberg from the 1960 film. "Proprieta Archivio Le Ore" provenance stamp and photographer "Pierluigi" stamp on verso. Fellini's most pivotal film, if not his finest. Unlike the more sentimental and abstract films that would follow, "La Dolce Vita" is an unflinching 7-day journey through 1960s Rome, with Mastroianni, a jaded.....

N.p. N.p., 1962. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1962 film, showing director Federico Fellini reclining in a shooting pit with his camera crew. With the stamp of still photographer Paul Ronald on the verso. A four-episode anthology exploring different aspects of morality and love, directed by Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, and Mario Monicelli. Fellini's episode, "Le.....

Paris: Roissy Films, circa 1978. Vintage oversize borderless color photograph of Gerard Depardieu and the star chimpanzee from the 1978 film. With holograph ink annotations on the verso. An Italian-French production about a man who lives in a New York City basement and works as a jack of all trades for the owner of a wax museum and a feminist.....

N.p. Compagnia Cinematografica Champion, 1968. Vintage photographs from the 1968 absurdist comedy "The Man with the Balloons," also known as "Break Up," from the prolific Italian director Marco Ferreri. Marcello Mastroianni plays Mario Fuggetta, a wealthy industrialist, whose obsession with balloons derail his life and his relationship with his beautiful fiancee Giovanna (Catherine Spaak.) He'll drive himself mad trying to.....

Italy: Sancro Film, 1963. Collection of four vintage, oversize, borderless reference photographs from the 1963 Italian film. With the stamps of photographer Velio Cioni, and two press agencies on the verso. Two of the photographs show crew members putting the finishing touches on a mannequin of Jesus while director Ferreri looks on. A satire of masculinity and chauvinism, where a......

N.p. American International Pictures [AIP], 1968. Vintage studio still photograph of George Hilton from the 1968 US release of the 1966 Italian film, here under the title "The Brute and the Beast." "Film Buff's Center" stamp on the verso. Italian Spaghetti-Western starring Franco Nero, early in his career as prospector Tom Corbett, and Hilton as his drunkard half-brother Jeff Corbett.....

France / Italy: Affiches Gaillard / Cineriz, Circa 1961. Archive of 139 vintage borderless single weight still photographs from the 1961 Italian-French film. Seen in the images is starring actor Fernandel and other members of the cast in action, and a few images of the film crew at work. Notations in holograph pencil, and photographer Civirani's rubber stamp, on the.....

Rome, Italy: Produzione Gallone / Filmsonor, 1951. Original souvenir program, printed in Italy, for the 1951 Italian-French-Spanish film. These programs saw popularity beginning in the 1960s and continued to be produced until the early 1980s and the ever-growing VHS market, with a particularly high distribution in Asian countries. This example features several full-color illustrations of Roman warriors and women, and.....

Los Angeles: Embassy Pictures, 1962. Collection of 6 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1961 Italian film. Marcello Mastroianni is a bored man, bored with life and his wife. He falls in love with a younger woman, and since divorce is illegal in Italy unless there is just cause (like catching your spouse committing adultery), he decides to find his.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1972. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Monica Vitti from the 1972 Italian film. Based on an unpublished short story by Alberto Moravia. The title translates to "Orders are Orders."Italian housewife Girogia (Vitti), after accidentally participating in a women's rights meeting, begins hearing a voice commanding her to do things against her will, firstly, going to the seaside.....

Paris: Intermondia Films / Pretoria / Cinedis, 1959. Collection of 4 original black-and-white single weight still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Featuring Jean Gabin dancing gaily in a pub with costar Doll, all photos with brief numerical annotations in holograph pencil on the verso. Gabin plays a sophisticated tramp who lives during summer in an abandoned construction site. As.....

France / Italy: Productions Sigma, Circa 1957. Archive of 42 vintage borderless single weight still photographs and 2 color transparencies from the 1958 French-Italian film. Seen in the images is starring actress Dany Robin, both on the set and at a birthday party, and other stars of the film in action. Notations on the verso of several photos in holograph.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1955. Two vintage reference photographs of director Sacha Guitry on the set of the 1955 film, taken by photographer Edward Quinn. "Ed. Quinn" stamps on verso of both, one with additional "Cinema Napoleon" stamp.Guitry's historical epic depicting the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena, with Napoleon depicted by.....

Paris: Cinedis, 1959. Collection of 33 original borderless single weight still photographs from the 1959 French release (as "Resurrection") of the 1958 West German-Italian-French film. Action sequences, images of smoking women in brothels, and head-shots of starring actors throughout. Numerical annotations in holograph pencil, and some in ink, on the versos. Based on Tolstoy's last novel, "Resurrection" (1899), a statement.....

New York: New Yorker Films, 1968. Collection of seven vintage studio still photographs, four borderless, from the 1968 film. Presented in a brown paper envelope with title annotated in holograph pencil.The first feature film from the husband-and-wife team of Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet. An austere portrayal of the life and times of Johann Sebastian Bach, depicted by renowned harpsichordist.....

N.p. New World Pictures, circa 1972. Original US one sheet poster, a variant size in a variant yellow color scheme, for the 1972 Italian film. An early role for Vonetta McGee, who would star in television shows like "L.A. Law," and "Bustin' Loose," and several other blaxploitation films in the 1970s. The film poster here is the yellow variant, also.....

N.p. Filmes Cinematografica, 1976. Collection of 3 vintage borderless photographs from the 1976 film. Grazia Neri stamps on the verso. Jancso's "Private Vices, Public Pleasures" is loosely based on the death of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, believed having killed himself after shooting his lover in a suicide pact in 1882. Jancso's film presents Rudolf (Lajos Balazsovits) as a pan-sexual.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1971. Revised Draft script for the 1971 Euro-Western (aka "Euro Western") film, a US-UK co-production shot in Spain. Notations throughout in holograph pencil. Euro-Westerns were made quickly and on tight budgets, and scripts for them are rare. Based on L'Amour's 1963 novel. Catlow (Brynner) is a renegade outlaw determined to pull off a gold heist.....

Paris: Pan American Airways, 1958. Original single weight press photograph of Vittorio de Sica smoking a cigarette, smiling, and entering (or leaving) an automobile, during the filming of the 1958 Italian-French film. French titles and de Sica's name in holograph ink, and a Pan American Airways rubberstamp, on the verso. Parisian paparazzi were likely on-hand as the cast and crew.....

Rome [Roma]: Lux Film, 1948. Two vintage French borderless still photographs from the 1948 Italian film. Both images depict African American actor John Kitzmiller. Foto Franci rubber stamp to the verso, alongside various holograph annotations in pencil and red felt ink. At the close of World War II an African American sergeant struggles with the temptation to sell ex-military supplies.....

Madrid: Jose Frade Producciones Cinematograficas S.A., 1978. Draft script for the 1979 film. Here under the temporary title, "Neither Losers Nor Winners." With annotations throughout in holograph ink. The film was released in Italian, though with American actors Peppard and Hamilton dubbed in Italian. The text of this draft is in English, created for consideration by the US cast and.....

Hollywood: The Ladd Company, 1984. Original press kit for the 1984 Italian-American film. Included in the press kit are 24 black-and-white still photographs, including one photograph of director Sergio Leone, biographies of select cast and crew, final credits, production information, and insight into Leone's process. Based on Harry Grey's 1952 novel, "The Hoods." David Aaronson (De Niro) is a former.....

Rome: de Laurentiis International Manufacturing Company, 1973. First Draft script for the 1974 Italian poliziotteschi film "Crazy Joe," here under the working title, "Crazy Joey." Lewis John Carlino would receive final credit, although not credited here, as screenwriter. Rubber-stamped Feb. 14, 1973, on the first page. A remarkable transplant of American New Hollywood stalwarts (and some of their elders) to.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1954. Vintage borderless photograph of Cosetta Greco from the 1954 film. Annotation in holograph ink on bottom left margin, "Georges Sadoul" and "Foto Civirani" stamps on verso. Based on the acclaimed 1947 Italian novel by Vasco Pratolini.Carlo Lizzani's Neo-Realist portrait of Fascist Italy, wherein young typographer Mario (Gabriele Tinti), after moving to via del Corno to be.....

Paris: Transcontinental Film Productions, 1962. Two vintage photographs of Sidney Lumet directing on the set of the 1962 film. With holograph annotations and a rubber stamp on the versos of each. Based on the 1955 play by Arthur Miller, about an unhappily married man whose obsession with his niece leads to tragedy when she falls for an immigrant who is.....

London: Gala Film Distributors / Les Films Marceau, Circa 1956. Vintage black-and-white reference still photograph from the UK release, circa 1956, of the 1956 Italian-French film, "Defend My Love." Notations on the verso in holograph ink, including the film's working title, "I'll Defend You, My Love," and a distributor (UK) rubber stamp. A reporter looking for a new story begins.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1960. Collection of ten vintage studio still photographs from the 1960 film. "The Revolt of the Slaves" is based on the 1854 novel "Fabiola, or the Church of the Catacombs" by English Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman and set in 4th century AD Rome during Christian persecution under Roman Emperor Diocletian. Claudia (Rhonda Flemming), the beautiful daughter.....

London: Compagnia Cinematografica Montoro, 1962. Vintage borderless photograph of Brigitte Bardot on the set from the 1962 film. "Brigitte BARDOT" and "PHOTO UNIFRANCE FILM" stamps on the verso.Bridgette Bardot stars in this semi-biographical film by Louie Malle about a young girl, Jill, who suddenly becomes a movie star and tries to manage the pressures and annoyances of celebrity. She returns.....

N.p. Mercury Film International, 1966. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1966 film. "The Wild, Wild Planet," was the first film in Antonio Margheriti's "Gamma One Quadrilogy," followed by "The War of the Planets" (1966), "War Between the Planets" (1966) and "The Snow Devils" (1967) which uniquely established the Italian space and sci-fi genre of the 1960's. Originally filmed for.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1963. Original pressbook for the 1964 film. Based on a novel by Doris Hume Kilburn. Karen Williams (Jones) is an art historian's assistant, abroad in Italy. There she meets Count Paolo (Brazzi), who immediately attempts to seduce her. Interrupting their courting is a mysterious girl named Cora (Moll), apparently related to the Count, maybe his.....

Italy: Dania Film, Circa 1978. Draft script for the 1979 Italian film, "L'isola degli uomini pesce" (Island of the Fishmen), here under the working title, "Volcano Island." Rereleased in America in 1980 as "Something Waits in the Dark," and again in 1981 as "Screamers," by Roger Corman's New World Pictures, and in 2009 under its directly translated title "Island of.....

Cannes, France: Cinedis, 1955-1959. Archive of correspondence and film ephemera from representatives at Cinedis and UniFrance Films regarding Christian de la Maziere, briefly the impresario of press relations (and former Waffen-SS soldier) at Cinedis, detailing his participation at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and at a few Referendum Cinematographique festivals in Vichy. Represented in the archive are 27 leaves, several.....

N.p. N.p., 1976. Original Treatment script for the 1977 Italian giallo film. Director John Huston's copy. Laid in is a typed letter signed, dated January 28, 1977, from noted agent Paul Kohner on Kohner's stationery, encouraging Huston to read the script and consider directing the film: "Dear John, / Please find enclosed copy of the screenplay of PYJAMA GIRL /.....

Paris: Filmsonor, 1960. Collection of 12 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the set of the 1960 French-Italian film, here under the original French title, "Une fille pour l'été." Featured are several images of the cast and crew on the waterfront basking in the shade, director Molinaro in white straw hat, and images of starring actress Petit, including a striking portrait.....

Rome: Euro International Film, 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1965 film, showing director Mario Monicelli and a camera crew filming a scene with actors Marcelo Mastroianni and Margaret Lee on the set of the 1965 Italian film. With holograph ink annotations on the verso.An army officer romances his way through Europe, with the caveat that he can only.....

Italy: Clesi Cinematografica, 1969. Typescript Treatment script for the 1970 film, "The Fifth Day of Peace," here under the working title, "Gott Mit Uns!!," its translated title being "God's On Our Side." Laid in is a single typescript leaf (author unknown), dated 9/8/69, detailing the story outline, and noting the possibility of actor Max von Sydow taking on the lead.....

Paris: Franco London Films, 1953. Vintage film still photograph of Charles Boyer as "General Andre de..." in the 1953 French-Italian film. In the film he wears a mustache, not so in this image, and likely this session occurred just before or after filming was complete. Based on de Vilmorin's 1951 novel. Generally considered to be Max Ophuls' masterpiece, the third.....

N.p. Robert Villa, 1974. Vintage double weight borderless press photograph of Pasolini, shot on location in the Middle East by noted photographer Roberto Villa. With Villa's ink stamp on the verso, along with the stamp of the Marka Archives. In 2008, Villa donated his vast archive to the Cineteca di Bologna, making his original prints rare on the private market.....