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N.p.: Astor Pictures, 1961. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1961 French film. An enigmatic, dreamlike film, about an unnamed man and woman who meet at a party, where he insists they have met before, and she that they haven't. A divisive film, viewed by critics as either an ambiguous, surreal… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1962. Vintage matte-finish reference photograph from the 1962 film, showing director Éric Rohmer at the far right. Annotations in manuscript ink and provenance label on the verso. Upon hearing his promised inheritance has been given to a cousin, a man sinks into despair and indigence-only to later hear that the cousin has passed away, and… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1955. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1955 film, showing director Agnès Varda with cast and crew members during filming on location in Sète. Phototeque stamp and provenance label on the verso. A couple takes a trip to a small French fishing village to repair their relationship. Meanwhile, the village fishermen fight the government's recent ban… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1966. Collection of four vintage reference photographs of director François Truffaut on the set of the 1966 film. Two with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. Based on the 1953 novel by Ray Bradbury. Truffaut's fifth film, set in a dystopian future in which all books are burned and free thought is discouraged. … Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1959. Two vintage reference photographs from the set of the 1959 French film, both showing director François Truffaut on the set. Annotations in manuscript pencil relating to cropping on the versos, and one with a provenance stamp. Truffaut's auspicious debut, a semi-autobiographical tale of a young boy's estrangement from his family and school, leading him… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1961. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Alain Resnais and actress Delphine Seyrig on the set of the 1961 French film. Stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso, along with two "Photofest" stamps. alexander An enigmatic, dreamlike film, about an unnamed man and woman who meet at a party, where he insists… Read more about this item

Paris: N.p., 1960. Two vintage borderless photographs from the 1960 film, both showing actress Jean Seberg. One with a mimeo snipe on the verso. Jean-Luc Godard's first feature film, with a treatment by François Truffaut, arguably the most important film of the French New Wave. Original French photographs from the film are scarce. One photograph… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1973. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1973 French film. One of the great films about film, chronicling the ups and downs in the lives of the cast and crew of a fictional melodrama. Nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one for Best Foreign Language Film. Shot… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1964. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1964 film. Based on Dolores Hitchens' 1958 novel "Fools' Gold." A young woman convinces two men to help her steal a large stash of money from her aunt. An outrageous and comical crime film and a classic of French New Wave cinema, later described by director Jean-Luc Godard… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1958. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1958 French film noir, showing actress Jeanne Moreau. Provenance stamp on the verso. The film's new cinematic realism was both indebted and pivotal to the French New Wave, and skyrocketed the career of Moreau, whose disaffected performance was the scandal of Paris for months following the film's release. … Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1973. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1973 French film. One of the great films about film, chronicling the ups and downs in the lives of the cast and crew of a fictional melodrama film. Nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one for Best Foreign Language Film. … Read more about this item

Paris: Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, 1951. Vintage program for a 1951 showing of Alain Resnais' 1950 short documentary film at the prestigious Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC). Text in French. IDHEC was founded in Paris during World War II in order to offer training for virtually every aspect of film production. It counted a veritable… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1959. Collection of five vintage oversize double weight reference photographs from the 1959 film. Two photographs with the stamp of the Lérida Ministry of Information of Spain on the verso, and all five with annotations in manuscript ink regarding cropping and identifying the film. Two photographs with titles tipped on the recto, one crediting director Alain Resnais.… Read more about this item

Paris: Les Films du Carrosse, 1964. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the1964 French film, showing director François Truffaut and cinematographer Raoul Coutard. With a stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso, along with a stamp noting No. 59. Truffaut's fourth film, about a seemingly happily married literary scholar who begins an affair… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1967. Vintage borderless black and white candid photograph of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne Wiazemsky at a cafe in Paris, 1967. With copyright labels for Rue des Archives on the verso. Wiazemsky made her film debut in Robert Bresson's "Au Hasard Balthazar" (1966), thoroughly impressing Godard, who claimed that the film was "the world in an… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1959. Vintage borderless black and white photograph of a young Jean-Pierre Léaud consulting a roulette table in Cannes, circa 1959. With the stamp of photographer Claude Schwartz on the verso. Léaud made his film debut at 14, as the lead character in Francois Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" (1959), a thinly veiled autobiography of Truffaut's own… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1962. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Agnes Varda on the set of the 1962 French film. With a stamp noting Varda's name on the verso, along with manuscript pencil and ink annotations. Agnes Varda's second feature film, following a pop singer over the course of two hours as she talks with friends and anxiously awaits… Read more about this item

N.p.: Gala Film Distributors, 1971. Vintage borderless studio still photograph from the 1971 film. Mimeo snipe on verso, here under the title released in the UK and in Ireland "Deartest Love." The coming of age story of Laurent Chevalier (Benoit Ferreux), a 15 year old boy from a complicated bourgeois family in Dijon. Nominated for… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1958. Vintage studio still photograph with narrow margins, of Gerard Blain, from the 1958 film. Cropping annotations and "National Film Archive" stamp on the verso. Director Claude Chabrol's first film, frequently cited as the first French New Wave film. Francois (Jean-Claude Brialy), a theology student suffering from TB, returns to his home-town after ten… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: N.p., 1960. Vintage photograph of Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina, circa 1960s. With the stamp of Combi Press photography studio on the verso. Karina and Godard married in 1961, after working together on "Le Petit Soldat," and were considered one of the more iconic and celebrated couples of the early 1960s, with Karina appearing in eight… Read more about this item