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Eight vintage full-color still photographs from the 1981 film. Based on a play by Brian Clark, about a sculpture artist paralyzed from the neck down in a car accident. He maintains the ability to talk, but he feels worthless and wants to die. In the hospital he make friends who support him during his court hearing to be allowed to die. Shot on location in Boston, Massachusetts. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.…

Collection of ten vintage black and white borderless studio still photographs from the 1980 film. Based on screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky's 1978 novel. Director Ken Russell's first American film, itself an "altered state" during production. Russell was constantly inebriated on the set, and had the actors mumble their lines in protest against Chayefsky's script. Chayefsky was subsequently banned from the set, and denounced the film even before production began. Edward Jessup (William Hurt, in his film debut) is a Harvard professor whose studies of the limits of human consciousness inevitably lead him down a strange and horrible path, from early experiments with a sensory deprivation tank to participation in Mexican Ayahuasca ceremonies. Set in Boston, shot on location in New York, California, Massachusetts, and Mexico. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine.…

Eight vintage black and white studio still photographs from the 1970 film. Based on Joseph Heller's searing 1961 antiwar novel, about a US Air Force bombardier seeking an escape from the endless, senseless brutality of World War II. Director Mike Nichol's third feature film, released the same year as Robert Altman's "MASH." Set in the Mediterranean, shot on location in Sonora, Mexico and Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.…

Early Reading Draft script for the 1993 film, seen here under the working title "Johnny Zombie." Copy belonging to uncredited actor Jim Calvert, with his name and role on a tipped-in credit on the title page, and his manuscript annotations throughout, likely used for a casting read-through of the script during pre-production. A teenage boy rises from the grave as a zombie in order to ask his crush out on a date. Shot on location in Lockhart, Bastrop, Austin, Round Rock, and Georgetown, Texas. Gray untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated August 27, 1991, noted as Reading Draft, with credit for screenwriter Dean Lorey. 107 leaves, with last page of text numbered 106. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with loss on the top right corner of the front wrapper, bound with two gold brads.…

Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1978 film, showing director Claudia Weill with actress Melanie Mayron on the set. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A young, single photographer struggles to maintain her friendship with her former roommate after the woman marries and moves out of their longtime shared apartment. Weill's first feature film, a warm and incisive depiction of life as a woman in New York in the late 1970s, described by Stanley Kubrick in 1980 as "one of the very rare American films that I would compare with the serious, intelligent, sensitive writing and filmmaking that you find in the best directors in Europe. It wasn't a success, I don't know why; it should have been." Shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 1055.…

Collection of 14 vintage photographs from the 1978 film, including five borderless reference photographs and nine studio still photographs. A young, single photographer struggles to maintain her friendship with her former roommate after the woman marries and moves out of their longtime shared apartment. Weill's first feature film, a warm and incisive depiction of life as a woman in New York in the late 1970s, described by Stanley Kubrick in 1980 as "one of the very rare American films that I would compare with the serious, intelligent, sensitive writing and filmmaking that you find in the best directors in Europe. It wasn't a success, I don't know why; it should have been." Shot on location in New York. Studio stills 10 x 8 inches, reference photographs 9.5 x 7 inches. Fine. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 1055.…