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Orion, 1971. VHS Movie. Starring Benoit Ferreux, Léa Masari, Daniel Gélin, Michel Lonsdale. 1971. 118 minutes. Color. In French with English subtitles. VHS. Fine copy with original slip-case which lacks top flap. Music by Charlie Parker. Set in a provincial French city of the 1950s this is a coming of age story which follows the experiences of one teenage boy. It is also a portrait of one family which is complex, comic and touching.

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 an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in and shot on location in Dijon, Yvelines, and Nievre, France. 8 x 10 inches. Very light creasing near top, else Near Fine. Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art. Criterion Collection 328.

NEF, 2007. DVD. Very Good. Language: French with English subtitles. Case has some surface wear. 2-Discs are in Very Good condition.

N.p.: N.p., 1992. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Louis Malle on the set of the 1992 film. Based on the 1991 novel by Josephine Hart. British cabinet minister, Dr. Stephen Fleming (Jeremy Irons), falls desperately and obsessively in love with his son's fiancee, Anna (Juliette Binoche). After beginning a tempestuous affair, Stephen tells Anna that he is willing to sacrifice his family and his cabinet position to be with her, something which Anna has no intention of allowing. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Miranda Richardson. Shot on location in England and France. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine.

Universal City Studios, 1982. Trade Paperback. 132 leaves, printed one side (rectos) only. A comedy about thieves planning a robbery of a San Francisco pawn shop. The 1984 film starred Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden, and Sean Penn. It is a remake of a 1958 Italian film, I soliti ignoti, directed by Mario Monicelli with Marcello Mastroianni in a lead role. Bound with three brass brads; fine in printed covers. Green text pages throughout.

The Criterion Collection, 1971-87. DVD Movie. Fine copy/fine. DVD movies. 4 discs, each with a booklet, in a slip-case. The set includes three classic films, plus a documentary about Malle and the complete Charlie Chaplin film which is partially shown in Au revoir les enfants. The films are in French with optional English subtitles and have the widescreen format. Le souffle au coeur: 1971, 118 minutes, starring Benoît Ferreux, Leá Massari, Daniel Gélin. Lacombe, Lucien: 1974, 138 minutes, starring Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Holger Löwenadler. Au revoir les enfants: 1987, 101 minutes, starring Gaspard Manesse, Raphaël Fejtö. The three films are superb and much could be said about each of them. Lacombe, Lucien is set in a small town in the southwest of France in 1944. Lucien is a farm boy who by accident comes to work for the collaborationist police which gives him status and considerable power. He is taken to a Jewish tailor, who is in hiding with his elderly mother and young daughter,… Read More

N.p.: N.p., 1960. Vintage borderless publicity photograph from the 1960 French film, showing actress Catherine Demongeot posing near a metro stop in Paris. With a printed mimeo snipe specific to the film's German release on the verso, along with cropping annotations in ink. A satire of Parisian society through the eyes of a ten-year-old girl visiting from the French countryside, who sneaks away from her relatives to venture into the city alone. Set and shot on location in Paris. 7 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine.

Paris: Nouvelles editions de films, 1963. Vintage Program for the international release of the 1963 film, here under the alternate title "The Will-O-The-Whisp," a perhaps more literal translation of the original French title "Le feu follet." The film would be released as "The Fire Within" in the US and "A Time to Live and a Time to Die" in the UK. Based on the 1963 novel, "Le feu follet suivi de adieu a Gonzague" by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle. An ambitious Malle project, using only solo piano music by Erik Satie for its score, about an increasingly isolated man quietly fighting the urge to take his own life. 8 x 10.5 inches, Self-wrappers, perfect-bound, 17 pages, on medium white stock with an untitled, solid green spine; in original printed envelope (slightly larger), single flap, with the French title ("Le feu follet") printed in green in large letters at the lower margin of the front panel. Program Near Fine, envelope Very Good plus with light soil at the edges.

NP: PARAMOUNT.. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1978. Poster. Original One-Sheet Film POSTER. (27" X 41") About fine on a single printed sheet folded in eights. The full-color image of child actress Brooke Shields, in the title role, is depicted wearing a flowery hat, cradling her dolly, while seated on a bench in a patio garden setting. An iconic image from director Louis Malle's controversial 1978 film set amid New Orleans' Storyville district. Well suited for framing. (B) .

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1982. First Draft script for the 1984 film, dated two years prior to the film's release. A remake of Mario Monicelli's "Pigeon," set on location in San Francisco, a comedy about the completely disorganized heist of a pawn shop. With a stellar cast including Jack Warden, Donald Sutherland, and a young Sean Penn. Gray titled wrappers, noted as SECOND DRAFT SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy number, dated September 30, 1982. Title page present, dated September 30, 1982, with credits for producer Edward Lewis, co-producer Robert F. Cortes, director Louis Malle, and screenwriter Jeffrey Alan Fiskin. 133 leaves, with last page of text numbered 132. Mimeograph on eye-rest green stock. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Lee, The Heist Film.

Paris: Nouvelles Editions de Films [NEF], 1960. Three vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1960 French film. An anarchic Louis Malle comedy, one of his finest films, where ten-year-old Zazie, from a provincial town, escapes the custody of her cross-dressing Uncle George and sets out to explore Paris on her own-all while her mother is off spending time with a lover. Story set and shot on location in Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine, with very light toning. Criterion Collection 570.

N.p.: N.p., 1978. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Louis Malle and actress Brooke Shields. Louis Malle's controversial turn-of-the-century drama about a twelve year-old girl who lives with her mother in a high-class brothel in Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Set and shot on location in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and New Orleans. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

N.p.: N.p., 1978. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1978 film. One with the stamp of photographer Maureen Lambray on the verso. Louis Malle's controversial turn-of-the-century drama about a twelve year-old girl who lives with her mother in a high-class brothel in Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Set and shot on location in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and New Orleans. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine.

N.p.: N.p., 1978. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Louis Malle and Keith Carradine on the set of the 1978 film. Louis Malle's controversial turn-of-the-century drama about a twelve year-old girl who lives with her mother in a high-class brothel in Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set and shot on location in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and New Orleans. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Paris: Nouvelles Editions de Films [NEF], 1958. Collection of twelve vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1958 French film. The great French director's second film, about a wealthy woman who has become bored with both her emotionally distant husband and her lover, and abruptly leaves them both to take up with a younger man she just met. After it was released in the US, the film became the subject of a landmark First Amendment case before the Supreme Court, where Justice Potter Stewart, in declaring the film not obscene, issued the immortal phrase "I know it when I see it" in regards to what constitutes pornographic material. A story set and shot on location in France, including Paris, Dijon, Burgundy, and the Cote-d'Or. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine or better, with light toning to a few of the photographs. Criterion Collection 58.

London: Compagnia Cinematografica Montoro, 1962. Vintage borderless photograph of Brigitte Bardot on the set from the 1962 film. "Brigitte BARDOT" and "PHOTO UNIFRANCE FILM" stamps on the verso. Bridgette Bardot stars in this semi-biographical film by Louie Malle about a young girl, Jill, who suddenly becomes a movie star and tries to manage the pressures and annoyances of celebrity. She returns home to Switzerland to escape from the paparazzi and seeks refuge in the arms of newly divorced Fabio (Marcello Mastroianni). Set in and shot on location in France, Switzerland and Italy. 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine.

Paris: Nouvelles editions de films, 1967. Two vintage borderless double weight photographs from the set of the 1967 film. The first photograph shows Louis Malle and Jean-Paul Belmondo (who is in costume) conferring on the set. With the stamp of photographer Vincent Rossel and the name of the film, as well as manuscript annotations regarding layout, on the verso. The second photograph shows director Louis Malle (standing with his back to the camera) and other crew members at work on a rooftop in preparation for a scene. A few penciled annotations on the verso. Based on the 1897 novel by Georges Darien. After his inheritance is stolen by his uncle, a young man embarks on a life of crime to win back what was taken from him. Set and shot on location in Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

N.p.: N.p., 1965. Three vintage borderless photographs, including one double-weight and two single-weight, from the set of the 1965 French film. One photograph showing director Louis Malle relaxing, with a camera crew to his right, one photograph showing Malle with actresses Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau in conversation with Malle looking on, and the final photograph showing Malle and Bardot during filming on location. All photographs with manuscript ink annotations to the verso. Director Louis Malle's sixth film, a humorous and subversive gender-swapped twist on the buddy movie, about two women named Maria who enjoy a variety of unusual experiences together, including inventing striptease for a traveling circus, and leading a socialist revolutionary uprising. Set in 1900s Central America, shot on location in Mexico. Two photographs approximately 9.5 x 7.25 inches, one photograph 9.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

N.p.: N.p., 1971. Draft script for the 1971 film. Text and titles in French. A coming of age story following an intelligent, jazz loving teenage boy growing up in a complicated bourgeois family in 1950s Dijon. Nominated for an Academy Award. Set and shot on location in Dijon, Yvelines, and Nievre, France. Orange titled wrappers. Title page present, undated. 71 leaves, with last page of text numbered 70. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages and wrapper Near Fine, with perfect binding.

N.p.: N.p., 1967. Collection of 21 vintage borderless double weight photographs from the 1967 film. Many with the stamp of still photographer Vincent Rossel on the verso, one with the stamp of Globe Photos, and one with a provenance stamp. Based on the 1897 novel by Georges Darien. After his inheritance is stolen by his uncle, a young man embarks on a life of crime to win back what was taken from him. Set and shot on location in Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.