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Rome: Compagnia Cinematografica Champion, 1953. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1953 film. Based on the 1950 novel by Georges Arnaud. Henri-Georges Clouzot's breakthrough masterpiece, a tense and literally volatile thriller. Four luckless Europeans are hired by an American oil company to drive two trucks of nitroglycerine through the South American wilderness to extinguish a fire in… Read more about this item

Paris: Greenwich, 1986. Two Draft scripts for the 1986 French film. One script in English, the other in French. A British diplomat's wife takes a chimpanzee named Max to be her lover. Nominated for a Palme d'Or. Screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, producer Serge Silberman and actress Milena Vukotic all worked with Luis Buñuel, and accordingly, brought much of Buñuel's… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Final Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to production accountant Gordon Kee, with his name in manuscript ink on the first leaf. Two drifters set out on a journey east from California towards Pittsburgh, hoping to start a business together when they arrive. A key film from the New Hollywood… Read more about this item

London: EMI Films, 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Joseph Losey, actor Dominic Guard, and crew members on the set of the 1971 film. Based on L.P. Hartley's 1953 novel. A young boy acts as the go-between for a tenant farmer and a wealthy young woman engaged in an illicit affair. Screenwriter Harold Pinter's final collaboration… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Leading Artists Inc, 1988. Second Draft script for the 1989 film. Director and screenwriter Steven Soderbergh's directorial debut, and a landmark of independent cinema. A languid, provocative chamber piece exploring intimacy and desire revolving around a husband, John, his wife, Ann, Ann's sister, Cynthia, and John's old drifter friend, Graham, who use Graham's own peculiar… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1975. Studio still photograph of Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper from the 1969 film, issued for a 1975 re-release. "Les Archives du 7 Art" label on verso. About as close to the very start of the New Hollywood era as can be imagined. "Easy Rider" had its world premiere at Cannes, on… Read more about this item

London: Performing Arts Ltd, 1969. Final Draft script for the 1970 film. Director Silvio Narizzano's broad, frenetic, and cheeky adaptation of Joe Orton's viscously farcical 1965 play, wherein two gay lovers, Hal and Dennis, successfully rob a bank and stash the loot in Hal's mother's coffin in the funeral parlor next door. A decidedly queer spin on… Read more about this item

N.p.: Alliance International, 1995. Vintage portrait matte photograph of director Atom Egoyan from the 1995 film. Bruce Greenwood, depressed and grieving over the loss of his child, is obsessed with Mia Kirshner, a young stripper at an upscale strip club, whose ex-boyfriend, Elias Koteas, the club's MC, still jealously pines for her. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. … Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1975. Two vintage borderless reference photographs of Grazyna Dlugolecka from the 1975 Polish film. Beautiful young Ewa (Dlugolecka) falls in love with the handsome lodger Lukasz (Jerzy Zelnik) and travels Europe in search of him, falling prey to the lusts and abuses of various men. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. 5 x 7… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1955. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1955 film, together depicting a fight sequence involving James Dean and Julie Harris. Based on the 1952 novel by John Steinbeck, about two brothers who struggle for the attentions and favor of their deeply religious, emotionally troubled father. Winner of Best Dramatic Film at Cannes,… Read more about this item

N.p.: Svenskt Pressfoto, 1982. Vintage photograph of director Werner Herzog in Vienna, standing in front of a movie theatre advertising his 1982 film "Fitzcarraldo." Mimeo snipe on the verso, along with the stamp of Svenskt Pressfoto. Herzog's astonishing, outrageous, and notorious masterpiece, "Fitzcarraldo" was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and was the… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1974. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of Robert Bresson on the set of the 1974 film, one of the film's jousting sequences. Jacques Henri Lartigue credit printed on verso. Bresson's bloody take on the King Arthur legend was an expansion of the aesthetic he had already developed, where the violence that was once implied became a… Read more about this item

London: EMI Films, 1971. Vintage borderless double weight photograph of director Joseph Losey, actor Michael Redgrave, and a camera crew on the set of the 1971 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with a provenance stamp. Based on L.P. Hartley's 1953 novel. A young boy acts as the go-between for a tenant… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1966. Vintage reference photograph of director Claude Lelouch (who was also the cinematographer), filming from the hood of Jean-Louis Duroc's (Jean-Louis Tintignant) mustang, from the set of the 1966 film. Anne Gauthier (Anouk Aimee) and Jean-Louis Duroc (Trintignant) meet as they drop their children off at boarding school and quickly become friends. As romance develops,… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Pierre Etaix and Claudine Auger from the 1965 film. After losing everything in the stock market crash of 1929, a millionaire (Etaix) finds happiness, his lost love (Auger), and the son he never knew he had by joining the circus. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1981. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1982 film, one of Dana Hill and one of Dana Hill, Viveka Davis, Tracey Gold, and Tina Yothers . George (Albert Finney) is caught in an affair, by his wife Faith (Diane Keaton), destroying their already fragile marriage and devestating their four children. … Read more about this item

London: EMI Films, 1971. Vintage borderless double weight photograph of director Joseph Losey filming a scene on location in Norwich with actor Dominic Guard, with cast and crew members looking on. With two printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. Based on L.P. Hartley's 1953 novel. A young boy acts as the go-between for a tenant farmer and… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1965. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1965 film. Each borderless except for a bottom margin (see image). After losing everything in the stock market crash of 1929, a millionaire (Pierre Etaix) finds happiness, his lost love, and the son he never knew he had by joining the circus. Nominated for the Palme… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1991. Vintage reference photograph of director-screenwriters Joel and Ethan Coen and actor John Turturro having a conversation between takes on the set of the 1991 film. One of the more ambitious films in the Coen brothers' oeuvre, a nuanced comedy about Hollywood, success, and the interaction between intellectuals and "the common man." Based… Read more about this item

Grunwald, Germany: Concorde Film, 1982. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the German release of the 1982 Italian film. With mimeo snipes on the verso. Antonioni's rarely discussed final feature, and one of his greatest achievements. A recently divorced director pursues a new relationship with a younger woman, who he imagines could play the leading role in his… Read more about this item