Search Results: Canadian Cinema from Royal Books, Inc.

N.p.: Alliance Entertainment, 1991. Collection of three vintage studio still photographs from the 1991 film. An unorthodox insurance claims adjuster and his family are approached by a wealthy, voyeuristic couple who want to make a film in their house. Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan's fourth feature, a fetishistic and unsettling psychological journey. Shot on location in Toronto. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

N.p.: N.p., 1982. Second Draft script for the 1986 film. A vintage script created for internal distribution, four years prior to the film's release, with copied manuscript annotations throughout noting deletions and editorial revisions, copied punch holes, and one manuscript pencil annotation, noting the name "Morrison" on the title page. Based on Mark Medoff's Tony Award-winning 1979 play. A speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the school's janitor, a deaf woman who has resigned herself to a life of isolation and silence due to her reluctance to learn to communicate with the hearing. Nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one for Best Leading Actress for Marlee Matlin (making Matlin the first deaf recipient of an Academy Award). Set and shot on location in Saint John, New Brunswick. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present, dated May 4, 1982, noted as Second Draft, with credits for screenwriter Mark Medoff. 136 leaves, with last page of text numbered 137. Xerographic… Read More

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Vintage reference photograph from the 1970 Canadian film, showing actors Jayne Eastwood and Doug McGrath. Widely considered one of the most influential Canadian films of all time, about two young men who leave their small home in Nova Scotia for the promise of riches and better living in Toronto. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1968. Vintage reference photograph of Genevieve Bujold from the 1968 film. The first of Canadian director Paul Almond's ambitious trilogy, with his then-wife Bujold, followed by "Act of the Heart" (1970), and "Journey" (1972), attempting to establish an understated, highly interiorized Canadian art cinema, greatly influenced by Ingmar Bergman. Isabel finds herself haunted by memories from her childhood upon returning to her family's farm, shortly after her mother's death. Set in and shot on location in Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec, Canada. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine, with light creasing.

Burbank, CA: New Line Cinema, 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 re-release of the 1961 Canadian horror film, seen here under its re-release title "Eyes of Hell." Shortly before committing suicide, an archaeologist sends what he believes to be a cursed mask to his psychologist, who is subsequently dragged into its world of doom. Shot on location in Toronto, Canada. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Montreal: Cooperation Productions, 1964. Vintage program for the world premiere of the 1964 film. The world premiere was held March 20, 1964 in Montréal. The program features film reviews by Jean Le Moyne and Jacques Godbout, and extensive film credits. A middle-class teenager is actively involved in campus politics, inciting protests and fighting to change the moral face of his college. He changes the life of an incompetent teacher, is expelled from school, and accidentally causes the death of a gay man. Religious themes, human sexuality, and an early entry in Canadian feature film industry, just as the country's federal government took measures to expand cinema audiences. Director Patry's first feature film, his earlier ventures, part of the cinema verite movement, include "Eye Witness No. 99" (1958), "The Little Sisters" (1959), "Le chanoine Lionel Groulx, historien" (1960), "Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine" (1962), and "Francoise" (1964). Set in and shot on location in Montréal. 8.5 x 11… Read More

N.p.: Cinépix Film Properties, 1972. Collection of ten vintage studio still photographs and three vintage reference photographs from the 1972 film. Based on the play written by screenwriter and director William Fruet. A young girl is raped by her brother's friend and discovers she is pregnant shortly thereafter. Her parents quickly attempt to marry her off to an older man. Shot on location in Toronto, Ontario. Eight photographs 10 x 8 inches, two photographs 8 x 10 inches, three photographs 10 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine.

N.p.: Cinépix Film Properties, 1972. Collection including four vintage studio still photographs and one vintage reference photograph from the 1972 film. Based on the play written by screenwriter and director William Fruet. A young girl is raped by her brother's friend and discovers she is pregnant shortly thereafter. Her parents quickly attempt to marry her off to an older man. Shot on location in Toronto, Ontario. Four photographs 10 x 8 inches, one photograph 9.75 x 7 inches. Near Fine.

Burbank, CA: Buena Vista / Walt Disney Productions, 1958. Vintage pressbook for the 1958 film. A nature documentary about animal life in the North American Arctic. Most notable for its infamous scene featuring a pack of lemmings jumping off a cliff into the Arctic Ocean, supposedly to migrate-a scene that was in reality staged by the filmmakers, who threw about a dozen lemmings into the Bow River near downtown Calgary for the sequence. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Shot on location in Canada. 19 pages, saddle stitched, 12 x 15 inches. Near Fine.