US: AG Enterprises, 1979. Vintage poster for the independent, Spanish-language 1979 film. Written, directed, produced, and starring popular Cuban comedian Alvarez Guedes, a farce about an attempt to create an organization of all the various Hispanic peoples in the United States despite their cultural differences. 26. x 37.25 inches. Bright and Near Fine, with light bruising to the top edge.....

N.p. N.p., 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1971 film. Two dated "L'Express" stamps, two "Publiee" stamps with annotations in holograph marker, and a "Viva la Muerte" stamp on verso. Based on the 1959 novel "Baal Babilonia" by Fernando Arrabal. Arrabal's fierce directorial debut.A young boy of about ten, Fando, tries to make sense of his father's arrest and.....

Mexico: Cinematografica Filmex, 1971. Vintage poster for the 1971 Mexican film. A man hunts the escaped convict who killed his wife in an increasingly deadly quest for revenge. 26.75 x 37 inches. Very Good. Two inch closed tear to the bottom edge, light chipping and edgewear, starting to the creases. Folded as issued.

N.p. Commonwealth United Entertainment, 1969. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film. Previously filmed in 1949, directed by Rudoph Mate and starring Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, and Luther Adler. Australian remake of the 1949 film starring Tom Tryon as Frank Bigelow, a lawyer who discovers he has been poisoned with only weeks to live, and to find out.....

Argentina: Sono Film, 1971. Vintage poster for the 1971 comedy film, starring legendary Argentinian comedian Luis Sandrini. 29 x 43 inches. Very Good. Light creasing, and a few small closed tears and chips to the edges, with starting to the folds, and light soil. Folded as issued.

Berlin: Universum Film [UFA] / L'Alliance Cinematographique Europeenne, 1938. Original French program for the French and German film "Un fichu metier." Three-color wrappers, with black and white photos and color text headers throughout. Text in French. A comedy in which a wayward crown prince is causing trouble for his kingdom (Vodenia), so a minister decides to replace him with a......

Taiwan: Hua Hsia Film, 1972. Vintage double-sided flyer for Hong Kong release of the 1972 Taiwanese film, here under the title "Deadly Fists." With an English language synopsis on one side. A young woman is sent by her father to discover the secret of a martial artist's fighting style, but falls in love with him instead. Meanwhile, another woman seeks.....

Prague: Filmove studio Barrandov, 1965. Original program for the 1965 film, with text in both French and English, made for the international release of the film. Illustrated throughout with images from the film and line drawings. One of the best known films from the Czechoslovak New Wave, nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, and bringing Forman to international.....

New York: Magic Lantern Inc, 1971. Draft script for the 1974 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Hermann Hesse. A depressed half-man half-animal (played by Max von Sydow) is introduced to the hallucinogenic world of the "Magic Theater," where he seeks redemption via a metaphysical transcendence. The film took seven years of complicated pre-production to create, including building a......

N.p. N.p., 1996. Two vintage Hong Kong posters, designed to be displayed side by side, for the 1996 film. A comedy set to the backdrop of a Chinese driving school. Shot on location in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. 27 x 31 inches each. Fine.

Tokyo: Imamura Productions, 1979. Draft script for the 1979 film. Text in Japanese. With a single notation in holograph ink. Based on Ryuzo Saki’s novel, about real life con man, thief, and multiple murderer Akira Nishiguchi (changed to Iwao Enokizu in the film), told in multiple flashbacks as he awaits execution for his crimes. Black titled perfect bound wrappers. Title.....

Tokyo: Toho Company, 1966. Draft script for the 1966 film. Text in Japanese. A pornographer is keeping a low profile to keep out of the way of the mob, while also is trying to keep the various people in his life happy, including his stepdaughter, stepson, mistress, and wife (who believes her first husband was reincarnated as a carp). White.....

Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Text in Japanese. Based on a novel by Shinju Fujiwara. Five people assemble ten years after the end of the Pacific War at a military station to uncover a stash of morphine worth a fortune now, whcih was buried by the medical officer Mashimoto at the abdication of the Emperor. One.....

Tokyo: Imamura Productions, 1980. Draft script for the 1981 film. Text in Japanese. A period drama featuring a man returning from exile in America during the Edo era and begins searching for his wife. He gets caught up in revolutionary fervor and his emotions get the best of him. Orange titled perfect bound wrappers, rubber stamped production number 133, dated.....

Berlin: Universum Film [UFA] / L'Alliance Cinematographique Europeenne, 1937. Vintage French pressbook for the 1937 film "Die Kronzeugin," seen here as "L'affaire Cabano." A detective mystery in which a noted singer is found dead in his apartment, and the police must decide whether it was suicide, or whether he has been killed. Two pages, saddle stapled, 9.5 x 12 inches.....

N.p. Objektiv Film, 1977. Studio Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film, seen here under the Hungarian title "Magyar rapszodia." Text in Hungarian. The first of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century to World War II, as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. Nominated for the 1979 Palme d'Or at Cannes.....

Prague: Filmove studio Barrandov, 1965. Original program for the 1965 Czechoslovak new wave film, with text in both French and English, made for the international release of the film. Illustrated throughout with both still images from the film and impressionistic illustrations. The end of WWII from the perspective on a boy in a rural farming village, equally worried about retreating.....

Japan: Daiei Studios, 1954. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1954 US release of the 1953 Japanese film. Though not noted in any way, this copy belonged to screenwriter, director, and film ephemera collector Leonard Schrader. The first Japanese color film to ever be released outside of Japan, and a cornerstone Asian film. "Gate of Hell" tells the story.....

Hong Kong: Hong Hwa Film, 1971. Vintage double-sided flyer for the 1972 film. With an English language synopsis on one side. A young girl finds an injured warrior, who is being hunted by seven devils. He begins training her in a secret form of "evil karate," and once she grows up, they set out to defeat the seven devils and.....

Tokyo: Kurosawa Production Company, 1960. Shooting script for the legendary 1961 Japanese film. Working copy belonging to Omura Senkichi, who played a small role as a traveling servant in the film, with his name on the front wrapper and his annotations throughout. Though not credited as such, based thematically on Dashiell Hammett's 1929 novel, "Red Harvest," and subsequently the basis for.....

1962. Draft script for the 1963 film. Text and titles in Japanese.A legendary Japanese noir, based on American author Ed McBain's 1959 novel "King's Ransom." A wealthy industrialist is contacted by a gang of crooks who inform him that they have kidnapped his son, and are holding him hostage in exchange for an enormous ransom. The industrialist soon realizes, however.....

Tokyo: Kurosawa Production Co., 1963. Draft script for the 1965 Japanese film, preceding the release by nearly two years. Text and titles in Japanese. Based on Shugoro Yamamoto's short story collection "Akahige Shinryotan." Toshiro Mifune's final film with director Akira Kurosawa, considered one of the director's masterpieces, following a small-town doctor and his new intern, a highly educated, arrogant young.....

Tokyo: Toho, 1952. Vintage oversize reference photograph from the 1952 Japanese film, showing director Akira Kurosawa adjusting the lid of a teapot while actors Takashi Shimura and Miki Odagiri look on. With the stamps of Forum Film and Israel Film Archive on the verso.A mid-level government bureaucrat discovers he has terminal cancer, and decides to try to find meaning in.....

New York: Greenwich Film Productions, 1985. Draft script for the 1985 film. With holograph pencil annotations throughout. Text, titles, and annotations in Japanese.Based on Shakespeare's play "King Lear." An elderly warlord in medieval Japan divides his vast empire among his three sons. The power corrupts them and turns them on each other, as well as their father. Nominated for four.....

Berlin: Universum Film [UFA], 1937. Vintage French pressbook for the 1937 German film "Vor Liebe wird gewarnt," seen here as "Onny a le Beguin." Anny Ondra plays a woman, the youngest in a family of three sisters, who can't seem to find romance, and whose boss attempts to set her up. An unusual look at women's roles under the Nazi.....

Hong Kong: Golden Harvest, 1971. Vintage program for the 1971 film, with a one page English language synopsis of the film, and rest of the text in Chinese. Photo-illustrated throughout in both color and black-and-white. Bruce Lee's first major film role, which instantly rocketed him to stardom throughout Southeast Asia, and one where he was originally to play a supporting.....

Berlin: Druck Gebr. Wolffsohn, 1927. Original pamphlet on early Hollywood cinema, written for German audiences by German film pioneers Ernst Lubitsch and E.A. DuPont. Seemingly an extended primer on early American films and filmmaking, with details on Hollywood's organized production methods, budgets, editing procedures, and actors, including Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Buster.....

Mexico: Cinematografica Jalisco, 1971. Vintage poster for the 1971 Mexican Western film. 26 x 36.75 inches. Very Good, with pinholes to the corners, starting to the creases, and light toning. Folded as issued.

Kanagawa, Japan: Daiei Studios, 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film. Text in Japanese. With annotations on a few pages in holograph ink. Based on the novel "Susaki No Onna" by Yoshiko Shibaki. The last film of Mizoguchi, this film is a vivid portrayal of prostitution in 1950s Japan, shot before the Japanese government's anti-prostitution bill, told through the perspective.....

Beverly Hills, CA: UFA / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1926. Vintage US reference photograph for the 1926 German film. With a printed snipe on the verso noting both UFA and MGM. Murnau’s final German film before emigrating to America, where he would make four more films before his untimely death, including the late silent masterpiece "Sunrise."10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus.....

Tokyo: Shockiku Ofuna, 1960. Draft script for the 1960 film. Text in Japanese. A young woman is hitchhiking when the driver who picks her up attempts to molest her. A young gangster comes to her aid and then leads her on a wild relationship through the Japanese underground towards the eventual destruction of both of them. White titled perfect bound.....

N.p. Oshima Productions, 1999. Two vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1999 film, one showing director Nagisa Oshima near a camera setup, the other showing Oshima laughing with composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and actors Takeshi Kitano and Ryuhei Matsuda. With holograph ink annotations on the verso.Based on the 1969 novel "Shinsengumi Kepp roku" by Ryotaro Shiba. Oshima's final.....

Tokyo: Shochiku, Circa 1959. Draft script for the 1959 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. With holograph pencil annotations throughout, ostensibly noting the placement of a certain character's lines.Angered by their parents' refusal to buy them a television set, two young brothers decide to go on a silence strike against all adults, leading to a number of comic misunderstandings.....

N.p. Allied Artists, 1968. Collection of nine vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 US release of the 1966 film, housed in their original brown paper envelope stamped "Battle of Algiers B7," with annotations on envelope in holograph marker. Italian neorealist director Gillo Pontecorvo’s careful, documentary style account of the guerrilla war for Algerian independence from France, concentrating on the.....

Mexico: Peliculas Rodriguez, 1966. Vintage poster for the 1966 Mexican film, here with an alternate title "Vida Cruzadas" tipped on. A comedy about the lives and romances of upper middle class teens. 27 x 37 inches. Very Good only. Chipping to the edges, with a few short closed tears, starting to the creases, and light toning.

N.p. N.p., 1963. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1963 film, showing actors Madhabi Mukherjee and Anil Chatterje, along with crew members, including director Satyajit Ray behind the camera. Based on the short story “Abataranika” by Narendranath Mitra, about a homemaker who takes a job as a saleswoman to the disapproval of her traditional, conservative family. Considered one of.....

Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film. Text in Japanese. A yakuza boss and his right hand man escape from prison and examine their relationship, both matters of loyalty and betrayal, as well as the scams and crimes they pull in their criminal history. White titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 41 leaves, with last page of.....

Burbank, CA: Cinema Epoch, 1977. Draft script for the 1977 film. Text in Japanese. A female golfer tries to perform to the very best of her abilities but must contend with the men in her life, her neighbors, her family and a stalker who will not leave her alone. Pink titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 118 leaves, with.....

Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1959. Draft script for the 1959 film. Text in Japanese. With a single notation in holograph pencil. Small-time deliquent criminals greatly enjoy robbing other people, but fall into big trouble when they accidentally rob the Yakuza. Brown titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 84 leaves, with last page of text numbered 18. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine.....

Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1960. Draft script for the 1960 film. Text in Japanese. Two inmates are killed when a police truck is assaulted and the driver is held responsible for negligence. He takes it upon himself to find the bandits which attacked the van. Pink titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 118 leaves, with last page of text numbered 23.....