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.....

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.....

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.....

Paris: Les Films la Boetie, Circa 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film noir. SIGNED by director Claude Chabrol to 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 Clotilde and his.....

France / Italy: Robert and Raymond Hakim, 1960. Collection of six vintage borderless still photographs from the 1960 film. With rubber stamps on the verso of each. Based on the 1955 novel "The Talented Mr. Ripley" by Patricia Highsmith. One of greatest of the French post-noirs, and easily one of the finest adaptations of Patricia Highsmith's work, told in a......

Paris: Les Films 13, 1969. Collection of 38 original keybook contact print photographs from the 1969 French film. Color and black-and-white contact prints of small and medium format transparencies, several printed in Agfa photo paper, most with 36 images per print, amounting to over 1300 images of starring actors Girardot and Kalfon, child actors, and a few of the film.....

Paris: President Films, 1976. Vintage black-and-white borderless still photograph from the French release of the 1976 French film. Three stamps on the verso for Cine-Revue magazine (dated variously between 9/2/76 and 2/3/77), as well as a studio stamp for President Films, crediting the title, Birkin, Dallesandro, and Gainsbourg. The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck stop, lonely.....

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: 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: N.p., Circa 1960. Two vintage photographs of director Jean-Luc Godard, dark sunglasses and cigarette accounted for, reviewing still photographs for his 1960 film, "A bout de souffle." Shot by Philippe R. Doumic. Both photographs with Godard's name stamped in blue on the verso. Both photos 5 x 7 inches (13 x 18 cm). Fine.

N.p. N.p., 1968. Vintage borderless press photograph of Mick Jagger in the studio, from the set of the 1968 French experimental film mixing documentary with surreal imagery and fictitious characters. With a few penciled annotations on the verso indicating placement. An image of Mick Jagger in the studio, from one of the many sequences relating to the band's creation of.....

Paris: Les Films Concordia, 1963. Vintage oversize borderless double weight photograph of Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli on the set of the 1963 film. With the stamp of photographer Aldo Durazzi and a press agency stamp on the verso. Godard's lush Technicolor landmark that transformed Brigitte Bardot from a sex symbol into an art object, while simultaneously furthering his own.....

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 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).....

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.....

Paris: Anouchka Films, 1966. Vintage borderless photograph of Jean-Luc Godard and Ana Karina from set the 1966 film. With a sticker from the "Rue Des Archives" and holograph annotations on the verso. Inspired by the Howard Hawks' 1946 film noir, The Big Sleep, and based on Richard Stark's novel, The Jugger, though Godard never purchased the adaptation rights for the.....

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: 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: Cooperatio 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).....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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 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.....

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: 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 / Rome Paris Films, 1962. Collection of four vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1962 French film. Agnes Varda is an important and influential French director, writer, and artist whose work uses both documentary style realism and experimental film techniques to explore issues of feminism and social justice. A colleague of Alain Resnais and other Rive Gauche.....

Paris: Parc Film, 1966. Archive of 46 vintage reference stills for the 1966 French film. Each photograph numbered using two different numbering systems in holograph marker and pencil. A single photograph shows director Varda with Catherine Deneuve on the set. A writer and his pregnant wife, mute from a car accident, move to a remote village while he works on.....