France: Arcadie Productions, 1975. Two vintage color and five borderless, black and white reference photographs from the 1975 film. One of ten films made by the French novelist Robbe-Grillet, ostensibly about the target of a kidnapping plot hiding out at a high society brothel, but in reality an exercise in image making, fourth wall breaking, and the exploration of Robbe-Grillet's.....

France: Regina, 1957. Collection of 6 original still photographs for the 1957 French-Italian film, here under the original French title. Actress Feuillere is prominently featured, in glamour poses and answering the phone. All with ditto-style mimeo snipes on the verso, crediting the original title, Feuillere, Servais, Blier, and Allegret. Also included is a business card for starring actor Lefebvre, here.....

Italy: SpA Cinematografica, 1957. Vintage borderless press photograph from the set of the 1957 film, showing director Michelangelo Antonioni conferring with star Steve Cochran in front of the crew, while child actor Mirna Girardi examines the mud. With an Italian press agency stamp and holograph annotations on the verso. A man discovers his mistress is in love with someone else.....

Paris: Unifrance, Circa 1954. Two vintage black-and-white photographs of France Asselin. Both photos with holograph annotations on the verso, one detailing the actress' films up to "Classe Tous Risques" (1960). One photo is a still presumably from her film "The Count of Monte Cristo" (1954). Asselin's film credits include "Cecile Is Dead" (1944), "the Love of a Woman," (1953), "Blood.....

Budapest: Szikra Kiadas, 1948. First Hungarian Edition, preceding all others. Lengthily INSCRIBED by the author in Hungarian in the year preceding publication on the first blank leaf, ending with "Budapest / 47.XII.14." A rare signature. A renaissance man in the world of early cinema, Balazs began writing film criticism, poetry, librettos, and screenplays in 1907, and died after a very.....

Paris: Cinedis, 1959. Collection of 269 vintage black-and-white photographs for the 1959 French film. The collection consists of two unique and complimentary pieces, one being a film still keybook with 68 contact prints of small format negatives, most with 12 images per print, amounting to over 800 images captured. Nearly all images with series number bordering the image, and credits.....

Paris: Unifrance, 1959. Original French film catalog, commemorating Unifrance Film's ten years (1949-1959) of production, featuring film still images, film bibliographies, actor biographies, and commentary on the role of French film and its creators by prominent figures in the field, including a preface by Rene Clair and an introduction by Wilfrid Baumgartner, director of the Banque de France. Lavishly photo.....

Paris: Cinedis, 1960. Vintage borderless photograph of director Jacques Becker and actor Jean Keraudy on the set of the 1960 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. Based on Jose Giovanni's 1957 first novel, "Le Trou" (The Break). True story of the 1947 Le Sante Prison break, with one of the real escapees, Keraudy, playing his own character in the.....

Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri (SF), 1956. Vintage borderless photograph, showing Bergman conversing with Bengt Ekerot, in costume as Death, on the set of the 1957 film. With the copyright stamp of Svensk Filmindustri, as well as some addition Swedish language stamps, and a date stamp of November 24, 1956 on the verso. The only production ephemera from the film we have.....

Italy / US: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979. Vintage studio still photograph of actress Jill Clayburgh and director Bernardo Bertolucci on the set of the 1979 film. The son of a famous opera singer falls into heroin addiction, and his mother begins an incestuous relationship with him to help him kick the habit. 10 x 8 inches (25.5 x 20.5 cm). Near.....

Paris: France Cinema, 1962. Archive of 224 vintage borderless single weight keybook contact sheets and film stills, amounting to nearly 2000 numbered images, for the 1962 French-Italian film, here under the original French title. The entire film is represented in minute detail, along with test shots, set design shots, and many candid off-camera shots from the set. Brief cropping and.....

Paris: France Cinema Productions, 1962. Original scenario with dialogue script for the 1962 film, here under the French title. French language. Unbound carbon leaves housed in a turquoise folder with silver prong brad, another French film title on the front, "Venus Imperiale," presumably Jean Delannoy's "Imperial Venus" of the same year. Notations on several pages in holograph ink and pencil.....

Paris: France Cinema, 1962. Collection of 8 vintage borderless single weight film still photographs for the 1962 French-Italian film, here under the original French title. Starring actress Saval is prominently featured, both at the salon and in sickbed scenes with Eddy Mitchell. Notations in holograph pencil on three smaller photos, larger photos rubber-stamped on the verso, crediting photographer William Camus.....

Paris: Cinedis, 1957. Collection of 150 vintage black-and-white keybook contact sheet photographs and 8 loose photographs for the 1957 French-Italian film. The film is represented in test shots, set design shots, and many candid moments from the set, including dramatic high-contrast images of starring actors, Bardot amply represented in the collection and seen in nearly every image, off-camera with the.....

N.p. Capital Films Corporation, 1980. 3 vintage borderless photographs from the 1980 film. Based on Frank Wedekind's character Lulu from his two-play series "Erdgeist" and "Die Buschse der Pandora," Borowczyk's "Lulu" stars Anne Bennent as the enticing, opportunistic and ultimately tragic Lulu. G.W. Pabst's classic 1929 "Pandora's Box" starring Louise Brooks was based on the same character.9.5 x 6.25 inches.....

Tours: La Nouvelle Republique, 1950s. Two original black-and-white single weight press photographs of French actor Bourvil, in the company of several men and one woman, presumably his wife, Jeanne Lefrique. Ditto-style rubber-stamp for La Nouvelle Republique, a news agency in Tours, France, on the versos. Bourvil (1917-1970) made notable films with with Louis de Funes, "Le Corniaud" (1965) and "La.....

Paris: Cinedis, 1957. Collection of 14 vintage photographs and color transparencies from the 1957 French-Italian film. Nearly all photographs are contact sheets, with 34 color transparencies, 24 are medium-format, and 5 are mounted. Starring actors Fernandel and Gray comprise most of the collection, and the contact sheets consist of candid images of Fernandel, director Boyer, noted director Christian-Jacques, and Fernandel.....

Paris: Le Film illustre, 1962. Original French magazine focusing on contemporary international film, actors and actresses, and persons behind the scenes, like set decorators and directors. French text throughout. Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida graces the front wrapper, and Frida Boccara on the rear wrapper. Color centerfolds were also featured, and this issue sports a full-color spread of youthful actors Martine.....

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: Filmel, Circa 1964. Revised Draft script for the 1964 French film, here under the original French title. Printed and bound by the Studio de la Copie in Paris, operated by Mme. L. (Lucienne) Sotier, with credits on the first page. Text in French.Based on Daniel-Rops' 1934 eponymous novel. Laure (Audret) is a young woman nearly raped by a member.....

Paris: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974. Vintage borderless photograph showing director Luis Bunuel (wearing badass sunglasses) and producer Serge Silberman conferring during the shooting of the 1974 film. A non-linear surrealist satire of Bunuel's usual targets, in this case bourgeois morality and class-based societal structures. 9.5 x 6.5 inches (24 x 17 cm). Near Fine. Criterion Collection 290. Rosenbaum 1000...

Paris: Robert et Raymond Hakim, 1968. Vintage borderless photograph of actress Catherine Deneuve from the 1968 film. With holograph annotations regarding layout, and stamps of producers Robert & Raymond Hakim and Cine-Revue magazine.Bunuel's first color film, about a bored and directionless young housewife who begins working in a brothel while her husband is at work, with tragic consequences for him.....

Paris: Greenwich Film Productions, 1977. Vintage borderless color photograph of Fernando Rey and Carole Bouquet from the 1977 film. With holograph annotations and an agency stamp on the verso. Based on the 1898 novel "Le femme et le patin" ("The Woman and the Puppet") by Pierre Louys, about the tempestuous relationship between a wealthy, middle aged Frenchman and a poor.....

Cannes, France: N.p., 1964. Original souvenir programs and film credits material showcasing some of the films from the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. It was this festival, the seventeenth one to be held, that the award name was changed from the Palme d'Or to the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, the name used until 1974 when it returned to.....

Italy: Lotar Film, 1974. Collection of four vintage photographs from the 1974 film. Each with the stamp of collector A. Marinie on the verso, one photograph with holograph annotations regarding layout. Italian director Cavani's international breakthrough, a deeply controversial film about a Holocaust survivor who renews her sadomasochistic sexual relationship with her Nazi torturer after a chance encounter, which threatens.....

Paris: Cinedis, 1958. Collection of 71 vintage single weight keybook contact sheets, amounting to over 800 numbered images, from the 1958 French film. Much of the film is represented in minute detail, along with test shots, set design shots, and many candid moments from the set. Dramatic high-contrast images of starring actors, Demongeot answering telephones and in heated embraces, with.....

France: Filmel, 1978, 1986. Two photographs for airings of the 1977 film on French public television channel France 3. The first photograph, for a September 6, 1978 airing, is borderless and shows director Chabrol and star Kristel in between takes, with the stamp of photographer Robert Cohen and a mimeo snipe on the verso. The second photograph, for an October.....

UK: Attica Film Company, 1957. Collection of 234 vintage French photographs for the 1957 UK film. Printed in Paris, where the film opened in October 1957, a month following the British release. Housed in original box with "Les Stencils Altic Fabriques en France" paper labels, and French promotional "week of gaiety in your neighborhood" title labels. Within are 18 paper.....

Paris: Les Films Ariane, 1956. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the set of the 1956 French film, here under the original French title, "Si tous les gars du monde..." Featured are images of the cast and crew on the fishing boat seen in the film, including director Christian-Jaque and cast family members. Photographer "le grand" credited on the recto.....

Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Collection of 18 original single weight press photographs from a gala surrounding the 1961 French-Italian-West German-Japanese film. Most of the photos represent actress Kishi, here as "Kiski," in kimono, and director Ciampi, on-stage behind a microphone and signing autographs, presumably at the French premiere. Several photographs are rubber-stamped on the versos, crediting photographer Jungmann or Andre, also.....

Paris: Cinedis, 1950s. Original "Happy New Year" brochure from French film production and distribution company, Cinedis, circa 1955-1960. Illustrated inside with "Service de Press / Bonne Annee / Cinedis," surrounded by red, green and yellow confetti illustration by noted film poster artist, Ferracci. The outside reproduces signatures of French actors and actresses, not all are legible, including Mylene Demongeot, Noel-Noel.....

Paris: Cinedis, 1957-1960. Archive of correspondence, gift lists, and journalist lists from representatives at Cinedis, notably Christian de la Maziere, briefly the impresario of press relations (and former Waffen-SS soldier), and Maryse Martres (Martin), who managed much of the company's press and advertising responsibilities. French language throughout. Represented in the archive are more than 50 leaves and an advertising catalog.....

France: Limot, Circa 1961. Collection of 86 original black-and-white single weight photographs from the set of 1961 film. Members of the cast and crew are seen in action shots, pinup images of actress Castel, Bourvil mending fences, and several snapshots of the camera crew during filming. Sprawling landscapes, gunfights in the town square, and charming taproom images candidly showcase one.....

Nice: Gaumont-Palace, 1961. Vintage French program, and two invitations, for the 1961 film, here under the original French titles. The collection both predates and postdates November 1, 1961, generally considered the original release. A small invitation "for two" doubles as a folding RSVP, for the October 17 showing at the Cyrano theatre in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, a Southwest France commune with the.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Collection of 8 vintage borderless black-and-white photographs of actress Dominique Clement, including two contact sheets, one with cropping annotations. All photos, shot by an unknown photographer, feature the demure Parisian contemplating nature, or life itself. Little has been documented of Clement (1940-2012), but she had roles in Jacqueline Audry's "Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon" (1959), Henri.....

Paris: Filmsonor, 1955. Original French program for the classic 1955 French film noir. This program produced by the film's distributor, Cinedis. With a stunning illustrated and textured front wrapper, making dazzling use of a two-color process in green-gray. Laid in are credits leaves featuring biographies on Henri-Georges Clouzot, Vera Clouzot, Simone Signoret, and Paul Meurisse. French text. Based on the.....

Los Angeles: New World Pictures, 1972-1976. Collection of 6 pressbooks for the US releases of some of the most important foreign films of the 1970s, all released via Roger Corman's New World Pictures to the arthouse market that was emerging at the time. Included are striking color pressbooks for Bergman's "Cries and Whispers" (1972) and "Autumn Sonata" (1978), Truffaut's "The.....

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.....

Munich: Concorde Film, 1974. Vintage borderless candid reference photograph of Warhol superstar Joe D'Allesandro in the 1974 Italian film. With a mimeo snipe to the verso. By the time D'Allesandro appeared in the torrid romantic drama "One Woman's Lover", he was already well established as a gay icon and noted male sex symbol as a result of his breakthrough appearances.....

Canada: National Film Board of Canada, 1965. Original souvenir program, printed in Canada, for the 1965 Canadian film. These programs saw popularity beginning in the 1960s and continued to be produced until the early 1980s and the ever-growing VHS market, with a particularly high distribution in Asian countries. This example is French language, square in shape (versus the normal rectangular).....

London: Charwill Productions, 1967. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film, based on the 1959 novel by Mark Rascovich, co-written by Jack Davies and director Ken Annakin, who had received an Best Screenplay Oscar nomination for "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" the previous year. A man and his bear attempt to flee Soviet Russia after the bear is.....