London: Miracle Films Ltd., Circa 1957. Collection of 7 vintage black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1957 UK release of the 1957 French film. Distributor rubber-stamps on the versos. Based on James Hadley Chase's novel, "Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief" (1941), banned in the UK upon publication due to its graphic sexual passages involving prostitutes and lost women. 8... (read more)

France: Compagnie Cinematographie de France, 1959. Vintage borderless press photograph from the 1959 film, showing director Robert Bresson on a Paris metro set, going over a script while actor Martin LaSalle and crew look on. With the stamp of French photo agency Dalmas and holograph pencil notations regarding layout and identifying the image on the verso. Bresson's first wholly original... (read more)

Paris: Image France Editions, 2007. First Edition. A deluxe monograph published to coincide with the legendary exhibit of the photographs of Raymond Cauchetier, the photographer who, more than any other one person, documented the beginnings of the French New Wave, shooting on the set with Francois Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Demy, and many others between 1958 and 1968... (read more)

Paris: Paris Film, 1960. Vintage borderless photograph of director Claude Chabrol goofing about with three of the four bonnes femmes on the set of the 1960 film. With the stamp of photographer Georges Pierre and holograph notations on the verso. A light, spirited look at the lives of four young women in Paris, perhaps the standout of director Chabrol's early... (read more)

France / Italy: Robert and Raymond Hakim, 1960. Collection of 5 vintage still black-and-white, numbered photographs from the 1960 film, all produced for the US/UK release by Times Film. One of greatest of the French noirs, in which Rene Clement wisely opted for the use of color over the general French practice of black-and-white. Also, easily one of the finest... (read more)

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Les Films 13, Circa 1969. Collection of 4 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1969 UK release of the 1969 French film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos. Produced late in the French New Wave cycle, implementing flashbacks and imagined scenarios, about a troubled young man who meets a pretty shop girl, and the... (read more)

Paris: FFD, 1969. Original pressbook for the 1969 French film. Nominated for two Academy Awards and the Palme d'Or. The third film (but fourth released) in Rohmer's "Moral Tales" series, and the one that finally elevated him to the international status of his New Wave peers. 9.5 x 13.25 (24 x 34 cm). Tri-fold, Very Good plus. Starting to the... (read more)

France: Athos Films / Chaumiane / Filmstudio, 1965. Collection of five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1965 film. Four with holograph pencil notations on the verso crediting photographer Georges Pierre, one with the stamp of Cinemagence on the verso. Godard transplants fictional detective Lemmy Caution (played by Eddie Constantine, as he was in several French films based on the... (read more)

Paris: Les Films Concordia, 1963. Original French program for the 1963 film. Based on the novel "Il Disprezzo" by Alberto Moravia. With a tiny rubber stamp contemporary to issue reading, "Interdit au moins de 18 ans" ("No under 18 admitted"). Godard's lush Technicolor landmark that transformed Brigitte Bardot from a sex symbol into an art object, while simultaneously making him... (read more)

Paris: Columbia Films / Anouchka Films / Orsay Films, 1964. Vintage French Grande poster for the 1964 French film. An outrageous and comical crime film, which Godard himself described as "'Alice in Wonderland' meets Franz Kafka." Based on Dolores Hitchens' 1958 novel "Fools' Gold." Shot on location in Paris. 46 x 63 inches (117 x 160 cm), folded. A small... (read more)

Paris: Les Films Imperia / Films Around the World, 1960. Original French pressbook for the 1960 film. A fascinating object, created in a die-cut style we have never seen duplicated, made by Films Around the World, the distributor that picked up the film for international distribution. The only copy we have ever seen. With a middle splash page containing a.... (read more)

Paris: Concordia Compagnia Cinematografica, 1967. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1967 film. Studio rubber stamp on the verso. One of the photos features Marina Vlady sharing a cigarette with Roger Montsoret. Based on a 1966 article on casual prostitution in France by Catherine Viminet. One of three feature films Godard released in 1967, and like... (read more)

Paris: Athos Films, 1965. Vintage French petite poster for the 1965 film. The influence of "Alphaville" as the first crime film to be set in a sci-fi context cannot be underestimated, and even the film's legitimate proteges, such as "Blade Runner," don't quite capture its strange sexuality. Shot on location in Paris. 32 x 30 inches (81 x 76 cm)... (read more)

Paris: Anouchka Films, 1966. Vintage one sheet poster from the US release of the 1966 film. With the film title rubber stamped on the verso as called for: "MASCULINE FEMININE / 66/368.""Masculine Feminine" was Jean-Luc Godard’s first examination of 60s youth and culture, whom he described as, “the children of Marx and Coca-Cola.” Teenager Paul (Jean-Pierre Leaud) works as an..... (read more)

France: Ulysse Productions, 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of a playful Jean Seberg pointing her prop camera back at the real one on the set of the 1964 film. With the stamp of production company Ulysse Productions and holograph notations on the verso. An anthology film featuring five stories about swindlers around the world, with Seberg appearing as a journalist accused... (read more)

Paris: Les Films de la Pleiade, 1962. Collection of four vintage borderless photographs from the 1962 film. With holograph notations and rubber stamps on the versos. Based in part on the nonfiction study "Ou en est la prostitution" by Marcel Sacotte, who also contributed to the screenplay. Godard’s least “intellectual” film is also one of his finest, a touching drama..... (read more)

Paris: Anne-age-Bela, 1975. Collection of ten vintage borderless photographs (five black-and-white and five in color) from the 1975 film. Generally considered the peak of the collaborative work on video done by Godard and Mieville, presenting scenes from the everyday interactions of a working class family, with a special focus on children. The film was shot on video, then played back... (read more)

N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Vintage borderless press photograph of composer Michel Legrand, circa early 1960s. The photograph, which shows Legrand exiting a gate with a suitcase in hand, is somewhat prescient, as the first half of the 1960s would see him leap to international renown, both as a popular musician and a composer of the film scores for such French..... (read more)

Paris: Euro International Film, 1970. Vintage French grande poster (affiche) for the 1970 French film noir. Director Melville's twelfth film, his second in color, and probably his most ambitious, the culmination of many themes developed in his previous work, played out through the filter of the crime genre. A triumph of visual storytelling as well, with two stunning 30-minute sequences... (read more)

Paris: Pathe Contemporary Films, 1962. Vintage French grande poster (affiche) for the 1962 French film noir. One of two styles issued, with no priority. Director Melville's seventh film, and narratively perhaps his most complex, a major cinematic entry in the birth of the modern anti-hero. The story unfolds by way of two characters, Maurice and Silien, and consistently switches back... (read more)

Paris: Films Sacha Gordine / Jeannic Films, 1950. Original pressbook for the 1950 film. Based on the play, "Reigen" by Arthur Schnitzler, in which an all-knowing interlocuter guides the audience through a series of affairs in Vienna, circa 1900. The first of the final four masterpieces directed by Ophuls after his return to Europe in 1950. 8 pages, saddle stitched... (read more)

Montreal: Cooperatio Productions, 1964. Collection of 5 vintage studio still photographs from the 1964 film. Film titles, small numerical notations in holograph ink and pencil, and photographer rubber-stamps on the versos, with credits for STUDIO DE PHOTOGRAPHIE and Claude Charron. Two mimeo snipes are present but detached. Lucien (Hamelin) is a middle-class teenager actively involved in campus politics, inciting protests... (read more)

Paris: Ajym Films, 1961. Original French moyenne poster (affiche) for the 1961 French film. Winner of the 1962 Sutherland Trophy for best first or second feature by the British Film Institute. Scarce, with only two copies found in Cine-ressources. A labor of love released after numerous financial woes and a three-year production schedule, "Paris Belongs to Us" did not cause... (read more)

Paris: Editions Universitaires, 1957. First French Edition, preceding the American by nearly 20 years. INSCRIBED on the half title page by Chabrol and Rohmer: "About a man who likes coffee, brandy, and cigars / vos confreres du Cahiers du Cinema / Chabrol / Eric Rohmer." Only the second copy we have seen signed by both authors, who in the years... (read more)

Paris: Claude Schwartz, 1965. Vintage silver gelatin photograph of Roman Polanski, Jean-luc Godard and actress Catherine Deneuve at Cannes in May 1965, taken by French press and still photographer Claude Schwartz. With Schwartz's French press stamp appearing 5 times on the verso. Arguably the tall man in the background is Barbet Schroeder. Polanski's 1965 film, "Repulsion," a film that had... (read more)

Paris: Les Films du Carrosse, 1968. Vintage borderless black-and-white double weight photograph from the 1968 French film noir. With a notation in holograph ink that the photo comes from the collection of Patrice Enard on the verso. Based on the classic 1940 crime novel by Cornell Woolrich, a Haycraft Queen Cornerstone. 9.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Hardy... (read more)

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1966. Vintage borderless production photograph of actress Julie Christie from the set of the 1966 film. Ms. Christie stands just below the film's titular numerals, large and in bold relief. With a Universal mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, a rubber stamped press date of July 5, 1973, some sizing notations in holograph ink. Based... (read more)

Paris: Les Films du Carrosse / Les Productions Artistes Associes, 1975. Collection of 4 vintage black-and-white press photographs from the set of the 1975 film. Three of the four photographs show Truffaut and his crew working on the set, both in front of the camera and behind it, and the fourth is a lovely shot of Truffaut in uniform next... (read more)

Paris: Les Film du Carrosse, 1969. Collection of seven vintage lobby cards for the US release of the 1969 French film. A late and important color noir, made at what was arguably the peak of Truffaut's success as a filmmaker, dedicated to one of his elders, Jean Renoir, and shot during the time he was deeply involved with lead actress... (read more)

Paris: Les Films du Carrosse / PECF / Produzione Intercontinentale Cinematografica [PIC], 1973. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1973 film. Director Francois Truffaut positions Jacqueline Bisset for a shot, while a crew member measures for focus in the background. With stamps from the French magazine "Telerama" on the verso. One of the great films about film, chronicling the ups and... (read more)

Paris: Parc Film, 1966. Vintage borderless photograph of director Agnes Varda and actor Catherine Deneuve on the set of the 1966 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. A writer and his pregnant wife, mute from a car accident, move to a remote village while he works on a novel. Fantasy and reality, fact and fiction, begin to blend... (read more)

Paris: Cine Tamaris / Rome Paris Films, 1962. Vintage borderless black-and-white still photograph from the 1962 French film. Cleo is shown being helped into a white robe in a large bedroom. Light pencil and blue ink notations to the verso. Agnes Varda is an important and influential French director, writer, and artist whose work uses both documentary style realism and... (read more)