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N.p.: N.p., 1963. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1963 film, showing actor Marcello Mastroianni between takes, with a camera crew and scaffolding in the background. Federico Fellini's avant-garde, autobiographical masterpiece, about an aging Italian director who begins to retreat into his memories and fantasies while attempting to make his latest film. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and nominated for three other awards, including Best Original Screenplay and Best Director. Set and shot on location in Rome. 7.25 x 9.5 inches. About Fine. Criterion Collection 140. Ebert I. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 15. Scorsese, My Voyage to Italy.

N.p.: N.p., 1963. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1963 Italian film, showing actress Claudia Cardinale. Director Federico Fellini's avant-garde, autobiographical masterpiece, about an aging Italian director who begins to retreat into his memories and fantasies while attempting to make his latest film. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and nominated for three other awards, including Best Original Screenplay and Best Director. Set and shot on location in Rome. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 140. Ebert I. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 15. Scorsese, My Voyage to Italy.

N.p.: N.p., 1963. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1963 Italian film, showing director Federico Fellini capturing a scene with Marcello Mastroianni. Mimeo snipe on the verso, along with the copyright stamps of Lynx, NPS, and Roma Press Photo services, and a credit for photographer Velio Cioni. Fellini's avant-garde, autobiographical masterpiece, about an aging Italian director who begins to retreat into his memories and fantasies while attempting to make his latest film. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and nominated for three other awards, including Best Original Screenplay and Best Director. Set and shot on location in Rome. 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Very Good plus, with moderate wear at the bottom right corner. Criterion Collection 140. Ebert I. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 15. Scorsese, My Voyage to Italy.

N.p.: N.p., 1963. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1963 Italian film, showing director Federico Fellini looking into a mirrored tabletop, while a crew member makes adjustments to a camera. Mimeo snipe on the verso, along with the copyright stamps of Lynx and Roma Press Photo services, and a credit for photographer Velio Cioni. Fellini's avant-garde, autobiographical masterpiece, about an aging Italian director who begins to retreat into his memories and fantasies while attempting to make his latest film. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and nominated for three other awards, including Best Original Screenplay and Best Director. Set and shot on location in Rome. 11 x 8.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 140. Ebert I. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 15. Scorsese, My Voyage to Italy.

Paris: Robert et Raymond Hakim / Sud-Films Distribution, 1967. Vintage black-and-white borderless still photograph of Catherine Deneuve and director Luis Buñuel on the set of the 1967 film. With the French producer's stamp on the verso ("Robert et Raymond Hakim"), and a printed list of credits in French. Buñuel's first color film, about a young housewife who begins working in a brothel while her husband is at work, with tragic consequences for him and a jealous client involved in organized crime. Winner of the Golden Lion at the 1967 Venice Film Festival. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection. Ebert I. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art.

Paris: Robert et Raymond Hakim, 1967. Vintage reference photograph of Catherine Deneuve and Genevieve Page from the 1967 film. "Property of The New York Public Library," and "DUPL NYPL" stamps on verso. Buñuel's first color film, about a bored and directionless young housewife who begins working in a brothel while her husband is at work, with tragic consequences for him and a jealous client involved in organized crime. Winner of the Golden Lion at the 1967 Venice Film Festival. Set in and shot on location in Paris. 10.25 x 8 inches. Near Fine, with light edgewear at corners and small title annotation in manuscript pencil in bottom margin. Criterion Collection 593. Ebert I. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema. Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art. Rosenbaum 1000.

London: Universal Pictorial Press and Agency, 1987. Vintage borderless photograph of director David Lynch to advertise his 1987 film "Blue Velvet." With a mimeo snipe on the verso dated 17th February 1987, along with the stamp of Universal Pictorial Press in London. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine, with brief separation at the bottom left corner.

N.p.: N.p., 1959. Hand tinted woodcut by Kurt Seligmann in 1959 as a Christmas card, titled "Moor," SIGNED and dated in pencil by Seligmann just below the image, and further INSCRIBED to Amos Vogel: "We loved your card - with Jean Durand! / Season's greetings / Arlette and Kurt." Kurt Leopold Seligmann (1900-1962) was a Swiss-American surrealist painter and engraver. He was known for his fantastic imagery of medieval troubadors and knights engaged in macabre rituals and inspired partially by the carnival held annually in his native Basel, Switzerland. Amos Vogel (1921-2012) was one of the most influential cineastes in New York City. He is best known for his bestselling book "Film as a Subversive Art" (1974) and as the founder of the New York City avantgarde cine-club Cinema 16 (1947-1963), where he was the first programmer to present films by Roman Polanski, John Cassavetes, Nagisa Oshima, Jacques Rivette and Alain Resnais as well as early and important screenings by American avant-gardists of the… Read More

N.p.: N.p., 1964. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1964 film, showing director Luis Buñuel embracing actress Jeanne Moreau. Based on Octave Mirbeau's 1900 novel, which follows a chambermaid in 1930s France whose Parisian beauty and sophistication at turns alienate and arouse the bourgeoisie members of the country house where she has recently found employment. Shot on location in Seine-Maritime, Saint-Maurice, and Essonne, France. 7.5 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 117.

N.p.: Greenwich Film Productions, 1972. Collection of 15 vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1972 film. Six bourgeois friends try to sit down to a meal together and are repeatedly interrupted by surreal dream-like happenings in Buñuel's satiric masterpiece. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, also nominated for Best Screenplay. Set in and shot on location in Paris. 9.5 x 7 inches. One uniformly faded, else Near Fine. Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art. Rosenbaum 1000. Ebert II. Criterion Collection 102. Schrader 33.

Paris: Greenwich Film Productions, 1972. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1977 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso. Six bourgeois friends try to sit down to a meal together and are repeatedly interrupted by surreal dream-like happenings. 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 102. Schrader 33.

N.p.: Greenwich Film Productions, 1972. Vintage borderless studio still photograph from the 1972 film, with provenance stamp of film historian "Maurice Bessy" on the verso. Six bourgeois friends try to sit down to a meal together and are repeatedly interrupted by surreal dream-like happenings in Buñuel's satiric masterpiece. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, also nominated for Best Screenplay. Set in and shot on location in Paris. 9.5 x 7 inches. One uniformly faded, else Near Fine. Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art. Rosenbaum 1000. Ebert II. Criterion Collection 102. Schrader 33.

N.p.: N.p., 1972. Vintage borderless double weight matte-finish reference photograph taken on the set of the 1972 film, showing director Luis Buñuel working with actress Stéphane Audran between takes. Rubber stamp of photographer R. Nusimovici on the verso. Six bourgeois friends sit down to a meal together, but just prior to dining are repeatedly interrupted by surreal, dreamlike happenings in Buñuel's late satiric masterpiece. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Set and shot on location in Paris. 9 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 102. Ebert II. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 33. Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art.

N.p.: The Clockworks Company, 1978. First Draft script for an unproduced film, circa 1978. From the estate of actress Monique van Vooren. Not to be confused with the 1993 film directed by Gus Van Sant, starring Uma Thurman and Lorraine Bracco. Based on the 1976 novel by Tom Robbins. Screenwriter Stephen Geller previously adapted Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel "Slaughterhouse-Five" for the acclaimed 1972 film directed by George Roy Hill. Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present, noted as First Draft, with credits for screenwriter Stephen Geller and author Tom Robbins. 183 leaves, with last page of text numbered 182. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with prong binding.

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974. Five vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1962 film. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

N.p.: N.p., 1962. Draft script for the 1962 film. With director Luis Buñuel's annotations in manuscript pencil and ink throughout, noting changes and additions to dialogue, and the name of Russian-American director Victor Stoloff in manuscript ink on the front of the folder housing the script. Stoloff was associated with Buñuel during Buñuel's brief sojourn in America, and is interviewed in the 2000 documentary "Buñuel in Hollywood." Included with the script is an English translation of Buñuel's revisions. An impossibly rare script for Buñuel's masterpiece, and the penultimate film the director made in Mexico. An incisive, eerie, surrealist comedy about a group of bourgeois guests at a dinner party who realize they inexplicably cannot leave the house. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Set and shot on location in Mexico. Tall, lacking wrappers and title page, housed in a light blue folder. 94 leaves, with last page of text numbered 94. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near… Read More

Mexico: N.p., 1959. Vintage oversize borderless black-and-white press photograph of director Luis Buñuel and cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa behind the camera in Mexico during the making of the 1959 film (a French-Mexican co-production released during Buñuel's Mexican period). Mexican stamp of photographer Georges Yves Massart on the verso. Handwritten text on the verso reads (in Spanish): "One of the scenes should have been shot in a very modern stable but it was impossible to find such a facility within the Mexico area. Luis Buñuel decided to shoot at the race track, this is why horses appear instead of cows as written in the script." Shot on location in the towns of Tetecala and Tepoztlan in Morelos, Mexico. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25.5cm). Near Fine.

London: New Cinema Presentations, 1969. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1969 film. With the label of New Cinema Presentations on the verso. Based on Rochelle Owens' 1967 play, wherein a farmer's sexual relationship with his pet pig sets off an erotic, increasingly unhinged chain of events among the local hicks in his small town. Shot on location in Stockton, California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Original scenario artwork by Charles K. Hagedon for the 1955 film musical. A bizarre image, showing a sailor with his gall, entering a cave that has bats, skeletons, a raven in the shadows, and in the distance a window outside of which appears a Dali-esque landscape. Signed by Hagedon at the bottom right corner. Pencil and gouache. 15.75 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Hirschhorn, p. 347.

New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1972. First Edition. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum between October 26, 1973 and January 21, 1973. Near Fine and unread in illustrated card wrappers.