(stapled wraps) [minor handling wear only]. (B&W photographs) 16-page program booklet (including covers) for a retrospective honoring Robert Wise, on the occasion of his receiving the 1965 DGA Directorial Award for THE SOUND OF MUSIC A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (which also earned him his second Best Director Academy Award, as well as being chosen Best Picture of 1965). Includes: a 2-page essay, "Wise: The Man and His Movies"; one- or two-page program notes for each film in the series; a filmography of his directorial credits; and a roster of all winners of the DGA Awards from 1948 through ... View More...
(stapled wraps) [a bit of wear along spine only, otherwise nice and clean]. (B&W photographs) 16-page program booklet (including covers) for a retrospective honoring Fred Zinnemann, on the occasion of his receiving the 1966 DGA Directorial Award for A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (which also earned him a Best Director Academy Award, as well as being chosen Best Picture of 1966). Includes: a 2-page essay, "A Director for All Seasons"; one- or two-page program notes for each film in the series; a filmography of Zinnemann's feature film credits; and a roster of all winners of the DGA Awards from... View More...
[book has minor wear to top and bottom edges and spine ends; jacket is worn, with small tears and minor paper loss at several corners, ragged closed tear at bottom of rear panel, chipping and a bit of paper loss at top of spine]. (B&W photographs) Historically specious but still entertaining memoir by the co-founder of Paramount Pictures. View More...
[moderately shelfworn, but with strong age-toning and some dampstaining to edges of text block; jacket is heavily worn along all edges, paper loss at both ends of spine, various small tears, creasing, etc.; NOTE that I've left in place the original white-paper-lined jacket protector which the book came with, because it seems to be sort of holding the jacket together]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page: "To Dick Williams / My Compliments / Adolph Zukor." Historically specious but still entertaining memoir by the co-founder of Paramount Pictures. Signed by Au... View More...
(French wrappers) [nice clean copy, with just faint surface wear to covers]. (B&W and color photographs) Tribute book prepared in conjunction with the restoration and promotion of Fellini's entire ouevre, a project in which the director was participating at the time of his death in October 1993. This "Second Edition" was issued the following year. Essentially an elaborately-illustrated filmography, supplemented with comments about him by other filmmakers, a brief chronology of his Fellini's life and career, and an interview conducted in April 1993. View More...
[a somewhat beat-up copy, clean inside and out but with numerous small creases/bends/dents in covers]. (B&W photographs) Tribute book for the AFI's second annual award, the first presented to an actor. Includes two short articles, "The Unforgettable Young Man" by Joan Blondell, and "James Cagney: A Few Thoughts on the Next 2 Billion Years" by Ray Bradbury; plus numerous comments from Cagney's professional colleagues and friends. At that time he had been retired from the screen for 13 years, but was subsequently lured back for two appearances, notably in Milos Forman's RAGTIME... View More...
[a small amount of wear along the spine, otherwise nice and fresh, just about as new]. (B&W photographs) Nicely-done program/tribute book, largely photographic, from Capra's Life Achievement Award dinner; includes filmography. It's interesting to note that the tribute book's editor (also the co-author of the tribute itself) was Joseph McBride, who some years later published a highly critical biography of Capra. NOTE that this would appear to be the "public" version of the program, with Capra pictured on the front cover, that was produced for sale and/or distribution to AFI members; th... View More...
[minor edgewear, faint vertical stain line on front cover, a trace of foxing along edge of rear cover,] (B&W photographs) Tribute book issued in conjunction with the AFI's Life Achievement Award presentation to Miss Gish, at that time only the second woman to have received the honor. (The first was Bette Davis, in 1977.) Includes filmography and brief excerpts from various books and articles about the actress, plus the unavoidable couple of pages of AFI self-puffery near the end. View More...
[covers rubbed/scuffed, interior immaculate]. (B&W photographs, ads) "Souvenir Edition" of the program/tribute book, issued on the occasion of the presentation to Lemmon of the AFI's annual Life Achievement Award. Includes: short articles (some excerpted from other publications) in tribute to the actor by Joss Whedon, Garson Kanin, Jeanine Basinger, and Jonathan Miller; numerous full-page sponsored ads, mostly illustrated with photographs from Lemmon's films; a complete filmography; and a short piece, "Lemmon on Lemmon," which was adapted from several interviews. View More...
[very nice copy, just the slight bit of abrasion here and there to edges of text block; minor wrinkling to jacket along top edge]. "Published for the first time in English, [these letters] provide an invaluable insight into the literary and psychological development of a major writer who was also an innovative and influential film-maker." Includes are long extracts from his early diaries and some of his first poems. View More...
[nice clean copy, lightly bumped at base of spine, short diagonal crease at bottom corner of front cover]. (B&W photographs) "Souvenir Edition" of the program/tribute book, issued on the occasion of the presentation to Peck of the AFI's Life Achievement Award, given annually to an individual "whose talent has in a fundamental way advanced the film art; whose accomplishment has been acknowledged by scholars, critics, professional peers and the general public; and whose work has stood the test of time." Nicely-turned out book, with short essays by Stanley Kramer, Harper Lee, Step... View More...
[lovely copy, with just a trace of wear to heel of spine]. (B&W photographs) Program/tribute book, largely photographic, but also including brief tributes to the director (all apparently originally written for this publication) by Nicholas Pileggi, Barbara Hershey, Joe Pesci, Thelma Schoonmaker, and Akira Kurosawa. Includes filmography, through KUNDUN (1997). Also a four-page section of "American Film Institute Annual Highlights, 1967 through 1996," the perusal of which leaves one with a vivid impression just how little of substance this organization managed to achieve in its first ... View More...
(two volumes without dustjackets (as issued), in cardboard slipcase) [books are in perfect condition; the slipcase very close to it, with just slight bumping to one corner (the set was in the original shrinkwrap when received by us, which was removed only to permit proper cataloguing)]. (B&W and color photographs, sketches) Beautifully-produced two-volume survey of the ouevre of the great Polish filmmaker (who passed away earlier this year), lavishly illustrated with (mostly full-page) color and black-and-white photographs, as well as numerous reproductions of Wajda's own drawings. (Most of t... View More...