Los Angeles: Expanding Cinema, 1966. Shooting final for the 1966 film. Copy belonging to actor Peter Haskell, with his holograph notations throughout and his shooting schedule laid in. Mary Ellen Bute's final film, and one of the only cinematic adaptations of James Joyce's masterfully complex work of fiction, "Finnegans Wake." Shot over a two year period, Bute was tasked with...
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 notations 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...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974. Collection of five vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1974 film. Director Liliana Cavani's controversial film, starring Charlotte Rampling as a Holocaust survivor who resumes a sadomasochistic relationship with the Nazi officer who tortured her, became a signature work for Rampling, including the striking scene in which she dances in a Nazi uniform for...
Hong Kong: Media Asia Distribution, 1987. Vintage Hong Kong poster for the 1987 film. A young student travels from Hong Kong to New York with the intention of studying with her boyfriend in an American University. However, her plans begin to unravel from the moment she arrives, disillusioning and unsettling the hopeful girl. Shot on location in New York. 20...
Denver, CO: Wiseman Film Productions, 1964. Original one sheet poster for the 1964 film. Only one style of the poster is known to have been issued for its initial release. A seminal film from many points of view. The second feature to be directed by Shirley Clarke, one of the few women to direct a film in the 1960s. Clarke's...
Los Angeles: Films Inc., 1975. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1976 autobiographical docudrama. Director Martha Coolidge's debut feature film, after having worked as a documentary filmmaker since the early 1970s. The film follows Coolidge's retelling of the aftermath following her high school date rape, and analyzes the motives and ramifications of the action. An unusual film for its...
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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1981. First Draft script for the 1982 film, here under its working title "Fast Times." Copy belonging to Reeves Nevo, Nevo was the leader of "Reeves Nevo and the Cinch," the prom band in the film who play "Wooly Bully" and "Life in the Fast Lane." Nevo's band obtained a solid following in the 1980s...
N.p. Cos Group, 1990. Vintage Hong Kong double crown poster for the 1990 Hong Kong-Taiwanese film. SIGNED on the recto in Chinese by an unknown person. In Ann Hui's semi-fictional autobiography, she weaves a tale of familial dysfunction, uncertain origin, and self discovery. After being passed up for a job at the BBC, 26-year-old Cheung Hueyin returns home to Hong...
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France: Cythere Films, 1969. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1969 French film. A outcast young woman, tired of being objectified, begins to take advantage of men by charging money for sex, upending the life in bourgeois town she lives outside of. A Bunuel-esque satire of patriarchy and capitalism by the noted writer, director, and critic. 10.75 x....
London: Warner-Pathe Distributors Ltd. / Elstree Distributors Limited, 1963. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1963 UK film. Noted director Joan Littlewood's first film credit, after more than 15 years working at the Theatre Workshop, an avant garde theatre she co-founded. This film centers around Charlie, who returns home to find it demolished and his wife shacked up with a....
N.p. Laugh or Die, 1978. Two vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1978 film. A role reversal comedy about the first pregnant man written and directed by comedian Joan Rivers. 8 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.5 cm) and 10 x 8 inches (25.5 x 20.5 cm). Near Fine, with slight creasing to the recto. Complete collation details available on request.
Los Angeles: New World Pictures, 1970. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1970 film. The first film in producer Roger Corman's "nurse quartet," followed by "Private Duty Nurses" (1971), "Night Call Nurses" (1972), and "Candy Stripe Nurses" (1974). Also, the second film released by Corman's New World Picutres. Set and shot on location in Torrance, California. 27 x 41 (69...
Los Angeles: Kyra Productions, 1998. Draft script for the 1998 film. A college student is promised his fathers Porsche if he returns home to New York by Christmas. Through improbable set backs and adventures he finds his way home and reunites with his love interest. Shot on location in British Columbia and California. White titled self wrappers, dated February 12...
Beverly Hills, CA: Orion, 1985. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1985 film, showing director Susan Seidelman going over the script on set. A bored New Jersey housewife gets involved in the life of a free spirited New Yorker through a series of events involving farcical elements such as amnesia and mistaken identity. Madonna's first major screen role...
Beverly Hills, CA: Orion Pictures, 1985. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1985 US film. Madonna's first major screen role, for which "The New Yorker's" Pauline Kael praised her as, "an indolent, trampy goddess." A film about a bored housewife and her fascination with a bohemian drifter, whose life she follows voyeuristically through the latter's frequent personal adds. When...
Philadelphia: Max L. Raab Productions, 1969. Vintage borderless photograph of Viva, James Rado, and Gerome Ragni from the 1969 film. With holograph notations on the verso. Taking cues from her female counterpart in the United States, Shirley Clarke, Varda created a drama with traditional narrative that incorporated improvisational cinema verite. Bending and blurring the lines further, she included Clarke in...
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...
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Los Angeles: J.E.R. Pictures, 1961. Original one sheet poster for the 1961 film. A rare artifact from the second of eight nudism-related films produced and directed by the prolific sexploitation director Doris Wishman. Working with a large sum of inherited money, two scientists build a rocket to take them to the Moon. Once there, they discover that the Moon's surface...