London: Miracle Films, 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 x......

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 annotations regarding layout and identifying the image on the verso. Bresson's first wholly original.....

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.....

New South Wales: Embassy Pictures, 1963. Collection of 16 vintage studio still photographs from the 1963 film.Based on French serial killer Henri Desire Landru.During World War I, Henri Landru (Charles Denner) supplements his income by luring middle-class women through newspaper ads, to a villa outside Paris where he seduces and kills them, burns their bodies, then helps himself to their.....

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 annotations on the verso. A light, spirited look at the lives of four young women in Paris, perhaps the standout of director Chabrol's early.....

Paris: Les Films la Boetie, Circa 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film noir. SIGNED by director Claude Chabrol on the title page. Text in French. A torrid, bourgeois crime drama set in a small French village, where desire and death convene as tension escalates behind closed doors. When the town's boorish Gaullist mayor discovers his wife and his deputy.....

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. 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.....

Paris: Columbia Films / Anouchka Films / Orsay Films, 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of actors Sami Frey, Anna Karina, and Claude Brasseur rehearsing the 1964 film's iconic dance sequence, which they did daily for a month prior to shooting. With holograph annotations and agency stamps on the verso.An outrageous and comical crime film, which Godard himself described as "'Alice in.....

Paris: Interpress, 1986. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Marushka Detmers from the 1983 film. Later printed French Interpress announcement, with typos, on verso. Loosely based on Georges Bizet's 1875 opera. A young woman involved in a terrorist gang is embroiled in a plan to rob a bank, but her plans are waylaid when she falls for the security guard.Set and.....

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: Les Films Concordia, 1963. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1963 film, with (L to R) Brigitte Bardot, Fritz Lang (from behind, seated), Michel Piccoli, and Jack Palance (at window). "Tele-Magazine" stamp on verso.Based on the 1954 Italian novel "Il disprezzo" ("A Ghost at Noon") by Alberto Moravia.Godard's lush Technicolor landmark that transformed Brigitte Bardot from a sex symbol.....

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.....

Paris: Athos Films, 1965. Vintage French moyenne 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. 23 x 30 inches, folded. Light holograph pencil.....

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, 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.....

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 annotations on the verso. An anthology film featuring five stories about swindlers around the world, with Seberg appearing as a journalist accused.....

Paris: Les Films de la Pleiade, 1962. Collection of four vintage borderless photographs from the 1962 film. With holograph annotations 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.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1961. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Jean-Claude Brialy and Anna Karina from the 1961 film. "Michel Casanova" stamp and "R. Levy" stamp on verso.Godard's homage to romantic comedies and the Hollywood musical, about a woman who wants to have child, but is caught between her resistant boyfriend and his overeager best friend. Perhaps the director's warmest and.....

N.p. International Spectrafilm Distribution, 1984. Vintage reference photograph of Jean-Luc Godard and Valerie Dreville from the 1984 US release of the 1983 French film.Loosely based on Georges Bizet's 1875 opera. A young woman involved in a terrorist gang is embroiled in a plan to rob a bank, but her plans are waylaid when she falls for the security guard.Set and.....

Paris: N.p., 1968. Vintage borderless oversize photograph from a 1968 press conference in support of Cinematheque Francaise founder Henri Langloius, featuring Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Renoir, Jean Rouch, and Louis Daquin. Photographer's rubber stamp and light black ink holograph annotations on the verso. This photograph originates from a meeting held in support of Henri Langlois, founder and director of the influential.....

Paris: Lux Film, Circa 1958. Vintage pressbook for the 1958 French film. Text in French.Loosely based on Dominique Vivant's 1777 erotic novel "Point de lendemain" (No Tomorrow). Director Louis Malle's second film, following a wealthy woman who becomes bored with both her emotionally distant husband and her lover, and begins a new affair with a young stranger. After its release.....

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 stapled.....

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).....

London: British Nation Films, 1942. Original British program for the 1942 film. A fascinating piece, in that it consists almost entirely of a long transcription by Pressburger of the true-life narrative by Sir George Corbett, which forms the basis for the film. Photo illustrations from the film throughout. Saddle-stapled illustrated self wrappers, 7 x 9 inches, 32 pages. Very Good.....

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: Cocinor, 1969. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1969 film, showing actress Bulle Ogier in a tense moment while sitting on a large bed. With holograph annotations to the verso regarding layout, along with a dealer stamp. As a theater group prepares for a production of Racine's tragedy "Andromaque," we follow the collapsing marriage of the production's director.....

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.....

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.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1966. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1966 film. Shown are the film's two leads Oskar Werner and Julie Christie, in a candid pose just below the film's titular numerals, large and in bold relief. With a Universal mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1953 novel by Ray Bradbury. 8 x 10 inches.....

Paris: Les Films du Carrosse, 1968. Vintage borderless black-and-white double weight photograph from the set of the 1968 French film noir. With a rubber stamped date of March 12, 1970 on the verso, along with numerous press annotations and markings. A wonderful candid shot of Truffaut, Jade, and Leaud sitting on a park bench during principal shooting of the film.....

Paris: Les Films du Carrosse, 1969. Collection of eight vintage lobby cards for the French release of the 1969 film noir. 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 du Carrosse, 1962. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1962 film, showing the film's principal characters Catherine, Jim, and Jules playing dominoes around a table, as seen through the window of their cottage.Based on Henri-Pierre Roche's 1953 novel of the same name, a story of a love triangle set in France throughout the First World War. Shot on.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1973. Collection of five vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1973 French film, four showing actors Dani, Jacqueline Bisset, and Jean-Pierre Leaud, and one showing director Francois Truffaut speaking into a walkie-talkie. With a stamp noting the film's French title, "Nuit Americain," on the verso, along with the stamp of the Israel Film Archive.....

N.p. N.p., 1962. Collection of four vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1962 film. Rare."Love at Twenty" is anthology film on the titular theme by five filmmakers, Shintaro Ishihara, Marcel Ophuls, Renzo Rossellini, Francois Truffault, and Andrzej Wajda, united with a score by Georges Delerue and photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson.Truffaut's short is the second of five films which follow.....

N.p. Universal International Pictures, 1966. Collection of eight vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the 1966 film. Each with stamps on the verso reading "Girosign Ltd." and "393."Based on the 1953 novel by Ray Bradbury. Set in and shot on location in England.8 x 10 inches. Very Good only, with some creasing to several cards, and some faint pen markings.....

N.p. N.p., 1978. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Francois Truffaut and Laurence Ragon from the 1978 film. Cropping annotations in holograph ink, "La Chambre Verte" stamp, and "June 78" stamp, all on verso. Based on the 1895 short story "The Altar of the Dead" by Henry James, with elements of James' 1903 novella "The Beast in the Jungle," and his.....

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.....

Paris: Cine Tamaris, 1962. Vintage oversize double weight single photograph of four studio still images from the 1962 film. "CINE VOG FILMS S.A." and "CLEO DE 5 A 7" stamps 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.....

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.....