France: Hermes-Films, Circa 1964. Draft script for an unproduced French film based on Maheux-Forcier's 1963 novel of lesbian love, "Amadou." Notations throughout in holograph ink, some noting cut scenes. French language. Opening scene translated: "It's dawn. The light is still undecided. In the fields, the first cries of insects, in the trees, songs of birds that awaken. The water of.....
N.p. Sam Lake, 1969. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film, here titled "Detention Girls" (without the definite article). Seven of the photos show a stamp noting No. 73-645 on the bottom right corner of the recto (in the white margin), and one with the number written in the same spot in holograph ink. A young.....
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N.p. Rome Paris Films, 1966. Vintage French Moyenne poster for the 1966 film. Nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival. A flurry of controversy surrounded the production and release of Rivette's film. Upon facing pressure from the French Catholic Church regarding its critical religious and sexual content, the new Minister of Information, Yvon Bourges, banned its.....
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N.p. Rome Paris Films, 1966. Vintage borderless French reference photograph of actress Anna Karina from the 1966 film. With a stamp specific to the French release for the film on the verso. Based on Denis Diderot's eighteenth century novel, following a young woman whose family forces her into a convent. A flurry of controversy surrounded the film's production and release.....
N.p. Motion Pictures International, 1967. Collection of four vintage black-and-white double reference studio still photographs from the Canadian release of the 1967 film. Based on D. H. Lawrence's 1922 novella of the same name. Mark Rydell's summer-of-love film was adapted from D.H. Lawrence’s novella of the same name, about a lesbian couple living on a rural farm, whose existence is.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1961. Vintage oversize, double weight, borderless still photograph from the 1961 film. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby, with his ASMP rubber stamp on the verso. Full provenance available. Based on Lillian Hellman's 1934 play, about two teachers at an all-girls boarding school accused of being in a lesbian relationship.....