France, Italy: Francos Films / Incei Film, 1961. Original press kit for the 1962 French-Italian film. Includes seven- and four-page pamphlets detailing film production, sequences, and synopses, with a press note and two accompanying film credit sheets from R. Chabert to Monsiuer Gay-Lussac, indicating the supplied press kit, and a note from Christiane Fournier, a film critic, discussing her plans.....

N.p. Agence D E B, 1959. Two vintage French borderless studio still photographs from the 1959 film, one of Martin LaSalle and one of Jean Pelegri. Mimeo snipe on verso, one with annotations on verso. Bresson's first wholly original screenplay, as opposed to one adapted from existing material, perhaps the finest of his many films, and according to one of.....

Paris: Franco London Films, 1969. Four vintage UK reference photographs from the 1969 French film, based on the 1969 novel "Les Chemins de Katmandou" by Rene Barjavel. With snipes on the verso from Cinecenta Film, the film's UK distributor. A young man travels to Nepal in search of his wealthy father, where he falls in love with a hippie, who.....

Paris: Ajym Films, 1958. Two vintage borderless photographs featuring Bernadette Lafont and Jean-Claude Brialy from the 1958 film. With a rubber stamp on the verso of each. Director Claude Chabrol's first film. Francois (Jean-Claude Brialy) returns to his home-town after a long absence to find his friend Serge (Gerard Blain) depressed, an alcoholic, and mourning the death of he and.....

Rome: Panitalia, 1959. Vintage borderless candid photograph of Antonella Lualdi and members of the film crew on the set of the 1959 film. With a stamp for photographer Jacques Six and mimeo snipe to the verso. A wealthy vintner finds it difficult to balance the demands of his wife, his children, his best friend, and his recently murdered mistress. Set.....

Paris: Cinedis, 1958-1962. Archive of press material and film reviews for the Parisian distributor and press and film agency, Cinedis, representing a four-year span from the company notable for its associations with French New Wave filmmaking. French language throughout. Included in the archive are two 2-ring binders, noted on the spine of one as "Bulletin Informations Cinedis," and one with.....

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.....

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. Tri-fold, Very Good plus. Starting to the lower rear fold, and.....

New York: New Yorker Films / JLG Films, 1986. Original US one sheet poster advertising the 1986 US re-release of Godard's "Hail Mary" (1985) in a double bill with Anne-Marie Neville's "The Book of Mary". Both films were France-Switzerland co-productions under Godard's "JLG Films" moniker, and Neville's film was released in France a year after Godard's. Both debuted in the.....

Paris: Les Films Concordia, 1963. Collection of 3 vintage black and white reference photographs from the French release of the 1963 film. Head shots of Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli, one of each, and one especially striking shot of the two together. Godard's lush Technicolor landmark that transformed Brigitte Bardot from a sex symbol into an art object, while simultaneously.....

Paris: Les Productions Georges de Beauregard, 1960. Vintage reference photograph from the Jean-Luc Godard film, shot in 1960 but not released until 1963 due to a ban in France over torture scenes. Thus it was Godard's second feature film, but fourth to be released. This photograph was taken and struck in 1960, when the film was shot. A shot that.....

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......

Paris: Sara Films, 1980. Collection of 3 vintage borderless color reference photographs from the French release of the 1980 film. A most Godardian examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations. 8 x 10 inches. A few tiny scratches here and there, else Near Fine.

N.p. Primex Films, 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of Jean-Luc Godard in Morocco from the 1964 film. French mimeo snipe on the verso. An anthology film featuring five stories about swindlers around the world. Godard's segment stars Jean Seberg as a journalist accused of passing fake currency, who then tracks down and interviews the counterfeiter, in the segment "Le Grand escroc".....

Paris: Anne-age-Bela, 1975. Vintage French moyenne poster for the 1975 French film. Godard's experimental film examines the intricate social relations of a young French family, while simultaneously analyzing and commenting on the act of film making. The film is unique for presenting two images on the screen simultaneously. 24 x 32 inches, folded. Two holograph pencil annotations to the verso.....

Paris: 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.

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie [SNC], 1965. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of director Jean-Luc Godard behind the camera on the set of the 1965 film. Shot by photographer Georges Dudognon in the summer of 1965, with his stamp on the verso. In a custom museum-quality frame, archivally mounted, with UV glass. 9 x 12 inches. Near Fine. Criterion.....

Paris: Anouchka Films / Argos Films / Sandrews / Svensk Filmindustri, 1966. Collection of six vintage, oversize, double weight studio still photographs from the 1966 film. Originally to be based on two Guy de Maupassant short stories, "The Signal" and "Paul's Mistress," director Jean-Luc Godard discarded almost all elements of the stories and instead filmed improvisationally based on ideas written.....

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie [SNC], 1965. Collection of 16 vintage lobby cards for the French release of the 1965 film. The set is housed in its original titled brown paper envelope from the film's distributor, Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie (SNC). Based on the 1962 novel "Obession" by Lionel White, about a unhappily married man who goes on a......

FranceItaly: Euro International Film / Rome Paris Films, Circa 1960. Vintage borderless photograph from the soundtrack recording sessions for the 1961 film, showing director Jean-Luc Godard, composer Michel Legrand, a visiting Serge Gainsbourg, and some other guy in the studio, drinking, smoking, and surrounded by women, which is pretty much how we always imagine them. With the stamp Radio Luxembourg.....

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.....

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.....

Paris: Nouvelles Editions de Films, 1958. French language draft script for the 1958 film. Based on the 1777 erotic novel "Point de Lendemain" by Dominique Vivant, released in the US as "The Lovers". Louis Malle's second film, about a wealthy woman who becomes bored with both her emotionally distant husband and her lover, and abruptly leaves them both to take.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

Montreal: Cooperation Productions, 1964. Collection of 5 vintage studio still photographs from the 1964 film. Film titles, small numerical annotations 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.....

Montreal: Cooperation Productions, 1964. Original French scenario script for the 1964 film, here under the original French-Canadian title, "Trouble-fete". Bound at the front of the script is a Canadian program from the premiere of the film in Montreal, Friday, March 20, 1964. The program features film reviews by Jean Le Moyne and Jacques Godbout, and extensive film credits. Lucien (Hamelin).....

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Argos Films, 1959. Vintage press photograph from the 1959 film, showing actors Emmanuelle Riva and Eiji Okada posing with a group beneath the exterior of the fictional "New Hiroshima Hotel". With a stamp for Cinemonde Archives and holograph pencil annotations regarding layout to the verso.The set of the "New Hiroshima Hotel", a key element in the film's narrative.....

Paris: Les Films du Losange, 1970. Vintage pressbook for the 1970 film. Director Eric Rohmer's first color film, in which mountainous backdrops and varying tones play a significant visual role. In a notedly minimal narrative, a newly married diplomat becomes infatuated with a lovely young acquaintance, specifically, with the girl's knee. His desire to touch her knee becomes the driving.....

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1968. First Edition, one of 1500 copies printed. "The American Cinema" introduced auteur theory to America when it was published in 1968, and sparked a long and famous debate between Sarris and Pauline Kael. Auteur theory sees a film director (rather than the producer, studio, screenwriters, or actors) as the author of a film, and was.....

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 annotations in holograph ink. Based.....

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.....

Paris: Les Films 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.....

Paris: Les Films de la Pleiade, 1960. Vintage oversize borderless double weight photograph of Charles Aznavour and Michele Mercier from the 1960 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. Aznavour spends half his time playing saloon piano and half his time on the run in this early Truffaut masterpiece, one of the great French noirs, based on the 1956 hard-boiled.....

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.....

Paris: Les Films du Carrosse, 1959. Original French Grande poster for the 1959 film. Poster design by Boris Grinsson. Truffaut's auspicious debut, winner of Best Director at Cannes, nominated for the Palme d'Or, and also nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar the following year. 47 x 62 inches27 x 41. Linen backed and rolled. Bright and Fine. Capitaine 207.....

Paris: Les Films du Carrosse, 1964. Vintage oversize, borderless photograph from the 1964 French film. Holograph pencil annotations on the verso noting the name of the film and photographer. Legendary director and French New Wave auteur Francois Truffaut's fourth film, about a seemingly happily married literary scholar who begins an affair with an airline stewardess.Set and shot on location in.....

Paris: Cine Tamaris, 1962. Vintage borderless photograph of Agnes Varda on the set of the 1962 film. "Collection G. Troussier" stamp on the verso. Told more or less in real time, the story of a pop singer trying to distract herself from worry while awaiting the results of a biopsy. Nominated for the Palme d’Or.Set and shot on location in.....

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 annotations to the verso. Agnes Varda is an important and influential French director, writer, and artist whose work uses both documentary style realism and.....