AGNÈS VARDA (ca. 1965-77) Archive
By Agnès Varda
Collection of vintage original French promotional materials, all JUST ABOUT FINE or better: -- Behind-the-scenes portrait of director Agnès Varda, ca 1965, 7 x 5 . -- AGNÈS VARDA / LE BONHEUR [HAPPINESS] (1965) Pressbook, 4to, 4 pp., with six (6) 5 x 7" photos. Jean-Claude Druot, Claire Druot, Marie-France Boyer, dir: Agnès Varda; Columbia. Film in a lustrous, almost dreamlike color, about a young working class married couple, where the man s secret affair with another woman leads to his wife s suicide. Time Out Film Guide (2000): Varda is trying to explore on film the kind of romantic areas that have so often .been the exclusive province of male film directors. -- AGNÈS VARDA / LES CREATURES [THE CREATURES] (1968) Pressbook, 4to, 4 pp. Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, dir: Agnès Varda; Parc Film. French-Swedish 1966 film by Agnès Varda that recounts a story of a couple who have just moved to a new town and been in a car accident. The wife, Mylène Piccoli, has lost her voice in the accident and communicates through writing. The husband, Edgar Piccoli, is a science fiction writer working to produce his next book. (wikipedia). -- AGNÈS VARDA / LIONS LOVE (1969) 23 x 19" poster, two-sided,USA. Viva, Gerome Ragni, James Rado, Shirley Clarke, dir: Agnès Varda; Max L. Raab Productions. Time Out Film Guide (2000): Attempts to analyze the media_Unwelot of fringe Hollywood in June 68. The film has Warhol superstar Viva along with Rado and Ragni (the creators of HAIR), experimental film director Shirley Clarke, the attempted murder of Andy Warhol, and the very real assasination of Robert Kennedy. -- AGNÈS VARDA / L UNE CHANTE, L AUTRE PAS [ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T] (1977) Promotional book, pictorial wrappers, quarto, 64 pp. Therese Liotard, Valerie Mairesse, dir: Agnès Varda. "The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women s movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pregnancy which she cannot afford. They lose contact but meet again ten years later. Pomme has become an unconventional singer, Suzanne a serious community worker despite the contrast they remain friends and share in the various dramas of each others lives, in the process affirming their different female identities." (IMDb)
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Vendor: Walter Reuben, Inc., ABAA, ILAB
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By Agnès Varda
Collection of vintage original French promotional materials, all JUST ABOUT FINE or better: -- Behind-the-scenes portrait of director Agnès Varda, ca 1965, 7 x 5 . -- AGNÈS VARDA / LE BONHEUR [HAPPINESS] (1965) Pressbook, 4to, 4 pp., with six (6) 5 x 7" photos. Jean-Claude Druot, Claire Druot, Marie-France Boyer, dir: Agnès Varda; Columbia. Film in a lustrous, almost dreamlike color, about a young working class married couple, where the man s secret affair with another woman leads to his wife s suicide. Time Out Film Guide (2000): Varda is trying to explore on film the kind of romantic areas that have so often .been the exclusive province of male film directors. -- AGNÈS VARDA / LES CREATURES [THE CREATURES] (1968) Pressbook, 4to, 4 pp. Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, dir: Agnès Varda; Parc Film. French-Swedish 1966 film by Agnès Varda that recounts a story of a couple who have just moved to a new town and been in a car accident. The wife, Mylène Piccoli, has lost her voice in the accident and communicates through writing. The husband, Edgar Piccoli, is a science fiction writer working to produce his next book. (wikipedia). -- AGNÈS VARDA / LIONS LOVE (1969) 23 x 19" poster, two-sided,USA. Viva, Gerome Ragni, James Rado, Shirley Clarke, dir: Agnès Varda; Max L. Raab Productions. Time Out Film Guide (2000): Attempts to analyze the media_Unwelot of fringe Hollywood in June 68. The film has Warhol superstar Viva along with Rado and Ragni (the creators of HAIR), experimental film director Shirley Clarke, the attempted murder of Andy Warhol, and the very real assasination of Robert Kennedy. -- AGNÈS VARDA / L UNE CHANTE, L AUTRE PAS [ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T] (1977) Promotional book, pictorial wrappers, quarto, 64 pp. Therese Liotard, Valerie Mairesse, dir: Agnès Varda. "The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women s movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pregnancy which she cannot afford. They lose contact but meet again ten years later. Pomme has become an unconventional singer, Suzanne a serious community worker despite the contrast they remain friends and share in the various dramas of each others lives, in the process affirming their different female identities." (IMDb)
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Vendor: Walter Reuben, Inc., ABAA, ILAB
