World Food Books

Brigitte Bardot

1971 / 1998, Japanese / English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 256 pages, 21 x 15 cm
Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Haga Bookstore / Japan

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Lovely 1998 edition of the best Japanese photo-book / "Cine Album" dedicated entirely to French actress Brigitte Bardot (b. 1934), first published in 1971. Profusely illustrated with film stills from all of her film appearances up until the date of first publication, from Le Trou Normand (1952) through to Boulevard du Rhum (1971), inc. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard – 1963), Viva Maria! (Louis Malle – 1965), And God Created Women (Roger Vadim – 1956), Harley Davidson (François Reichenbach, Eddy Matalon – 1967), The Bear and the Doll (Michel Deville — 1970), and all else, along with press photos, behind the scenes shots, and full filmography and much more, all reproduced in vivid colour and b/w gloss. Small amount of text included is in Japanese. Published by the great Haga Bookstore imprint.

Fine copy in dust jacket.

File under: Brigitte Bardot Louis Malle Jean-Luc Godard Michel Deville Roger Vadim Haga Bookstore / Japan Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Photography

Jane Birkin
par Gérard Lenne

1985, French
Softcover, 239 pages, 21.7 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Henry Veyrier / Paris

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The essential Jane Birkin book, by Gérard Lenne and published by Editions Henry Veyrier, Paris, in 1985. The only French printing of this incredibly in-depth monograph on the great actress and singer, Jane Birkin. Scarce and very sought after today, this book, written by French film critic and writer Gérard Lenne, and made closely with Birkin herself, is both an intimate and revealing biography of her life and an important document capturing her diverse and challenging career as actress (working with Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jacques Doillon, Serge Gainsbourg, Jacques Rivette, to name a few), model, singer, and much more - through countless photographs, film-stills and profiles of each of her films and records. Includes a discography, bibliography and videography (from "Blow Up" to "le Pirate"). A great publication of English/French film history and a must for any Jane Birkin fan.

Very good copy, some age tanning, light wear. Long out-of-print.

File under: Agnès Varda Alain Resnais Jacques Rivette Jane Birkin Jean-Luc Godard Michelangelo Antonioni Serge Gainsbourg Gérard Lenne Henry Veyrier / Paris Fashion Out-of-print / Rare Photography

Duras/Godard Dialogues

2020, English
Hardcover, 148 pages, 21 x 16 cm
Published by Film Desk Books / New York

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“This deceptively slim volume condenses a decade worth of vigorous activity into a few brief, yet enormously rich encounters.”—Sight & Sound

Introduction, afterword and footnotes by Cyril Béghin.
Translation by Nicholas Elliott.

Three dialogues between Marguerite Duras and Jean-Luc Godard from 1979, 1980 and 1987.

“The two demonstrate a profound shared passion, a way of literally being one with a medium and speaking about it with a dazzling lyricism interspersed with dryly ironic remarks, fueled by a conviction that inspires them to traverse history. Their point of intersection is obvious. Duras, a writer, is also a filmmaker, and Godard, a filmmaker, has maintained a distinctive relationship with literature, writing and speech.”—Cyril Béghin

File under: Jean-Luc Godard Marguerite Duras Jean-Luc Godard Marguerite Duras Film Desk Books / New York Film / Video Art Theory / Essay Sociology / Politics

FILM IS: The International Free Cinema
by Stephen Dwoskin

1975 / 1985, English
Softcover, 272 pages, 23 x 14.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The Overlook Press / New York

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First 1975 US edition (1985 print) of Stephen Dwoskin's important critical history of international independent and underground film-making, its pioneers and masters, and their creations, from the 1920s to the present (late 1970s), assessing the movements importance to the current status of film as art and entertainment. Published by Overlook Press.

Underground' film is finally emerging in terms of the public consciousness as an important and enduring contribution to the world of celluloid, both as entertainment and as an art form. The author, Stephen Dwoskin, is a young American independent filmmaker with personal experience in an expert knowledge of a creative area barely studied until this time. He has created in FILM IS an invaluable record of the pioneering cinematic statements that are at once peripheral and central to film today on an international scale. It is both culturally and sociologically true today that an increasing number of the painters and the poets have become filmmakers. Un-pressured by big business, free cinema has become a personal, creative expression for many men and women who often work in obscurity with small means indeed. Dwoskin's work presents the early history of the independent film from its beginning in the twenties to its phenomenal outburst in the sixties, written by an involved, perceptive critic. Through his own work and his contributions to the juries of international festivals, Dwoskin has a wide-ranging knowledge of the independent film from the U.S. to Britain, Italy, Germany, and Austria. Over 700 films are discussed, many for the first time. Van der Beek, Refenstahl, Brakhage, Emshwiller, Ray and Jack Smith are only some of the experimental filmmakers mentioned in FILM IS, but Dwoskin refers forwards and backwards to the works of others, often better known— Bunuel, Cocteau, Fassbinder, Truffaut, Warhol. There is also a comprehensive index. FILM IS provides a unique and invaluable reference work for all those interested in the frontiers of film consciousness.

Stephen Dwoskin (1939—2012) was a major avant-garde filmmaker whose work was closely connected to the 'gaze theory' associated with Laura Mulvey; a significant disabled filmmaker – though he rejected being framed as such – and an activist for an alternative film culture, through such organizations as the London Film-Makers' Co-op and The Other Cinema. His films are held by the BFI and distributed by LUX. His archive is held at The University of Reading.

Very Good copy, light wear, ex-owner's name in inside front cover.

File under: Jack Smith Stan Brakhage Andy Warhol Leni Riefenstahl Stephen Dwoskin François Truffaut Rainer Werner Fassbinder Jean Cocteau The Cockettes Paul Sharits Jean-Luc Godard Maya Deren Jonas Mekas Robert Wiene Robert Frank Tiny Tim Ron Rice Robert Breer Carolee Schneemann Michael Snow Stan Vanderbeek Wim Wenders Kenneth Anger George Kuchar Mike Kuchar Frans Zwartjes Kurt Kren Peter Weibel Otto Muehl Limpe Fuchs Peter Gidal Peter Kubelka Jean-Marie Straub Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub Bruce Connor Luis Buñuel Ed Emshwiller Reinosuke Kinugasa Taylor Mead Harry Smith David Larcher Bruce Baillie Alfredo Leonardi Valie Export Stephen Dwoskin The Overlook Press / New York Theory / Essay Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Art Conceptual Art Surrealism

ATG (Art Theatre Group) No. 64

1969, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 54 pages, 23.5 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by ATG / Tokyo

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Rare copy of issue 64 of Tokyo's ATG (Art Theatre Group) publication, published in 1968/1969, with extensive cover features on the works of Japanese director Yoshida Yoshishige and French director Jean-Luc Godard. Includes many photographs, as well as filmographies on both directors, plus in-depth articles on Yoshishige's Farewell to the Summer Light (1968) and Godard's Le petit soldat (1963). Also includes an article and advertisements for Diary of a Shinjuku Thief by Nagisa Ōshima, listing for the ATG program, galleries and more.

Good—VG copt with some cover/spine wear.

File under: Jean-Luc Godard Tadanori Yokoo Nagisa Ōshima Yoshida Yoshishige Michel Subor Anna Karina Mariko Okada ATG / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Film / Video Art Theory / Essay

G-Modern Vol. 5
Winter '94 : PSYCHEDELIC, AVANT-GARDE, UNDERGROUND MAGAZINE

1994, Japanese
Softcover, 108 pages, 25.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by G-Modern / Tokyo

$95.00 - Out of stock

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Vol. 5 issue of G-Modern, the scarcely seen cult underground music magazine published by the late Hideo Ikeezumi, founder of the legendary P.S.F. label and Modern Music record store, Tokyo’s home for underground, avant-garde and obscure musics. Published in Winter 1994, this early issue features Derek Bailey, Motoharu Yoshizawa, Captain Beefheart, George A. Romero, Keiji Haino, Smegma, Patti Smith, Jean-Luc Godard, Hawkwind, Pierre Henry, Shinro Ohtake, Shoichi Ozawa, Alvin Lucier, Frank Zappa, history/discography of Akifumi Nakajima's (Aube) G.R.O.S.S. label, articles on extremely obscure psych from around the world, record reviews, and much more.

"The text is all in Japanese, but each issue is crammed with great photographs, weird artwork and ads, and lots of album reviews (the Japanese tradition of always reproducing every cover is helpful here). There's a big emphasis on older, ultra obscure stuff, so there's always a few repros of covers you'll definitely never see for the rest of your life. The accent is not only on the Tokyo underground as documented by PSF, but the entire history of worldwide psychedelic, avant-garde and underground music. Each issue is printed on nice book stock paper, in the 100 page range." - (Forced Exposure)

Very Good, light cover wear.

File under: Derek Bailey Captain Beefheart George A. Romero Keiji Haino Smegma Patti Smith Jean-Luc Godard Hawkwind Pierre Henry Shinro Ohtake Shoichi Ozawa Alvin Lucier Frank Zappa Akifumi Nakajima (Aube) Aube Motoharu Yoshizawa Hideo Ikeezumi G-Modern / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Weekend / Wind from the East
by Jean-Luc Godard

1972, English
Softcover, 188 pages, 20 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Lorrimer / London

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First scarce 1972 English edition of the illustrated film scripts to Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend (1967) and Wind from the East (1970), with texts by Robin Wood, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, and James Roy Macbean. In Weekend Roland Durand (Jean Yanne) and his wife Corinne (Mireille Darc) embark on a weekend getaway to the French countryside. Each is contemplating adultery as they head for the coast, but end up ensnared in a traffic jam along the way. Hilarity ensues in this absurdist romp as it devolves into all manners of human folly and destruction. Wind from the East is a loosely conceived leftist-western that moves through a series of practical and analytical passages into a finale based around the process of manufacturing homemade weapons.

Good copy with some light edge wear, stamps/inscriptions to title page from previous owner/bookshop.

File under: Jean-Luc Godard Lorrimer / London Art Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Sociology / Politics

MADE IN U.S.A.
Un Film de Jean-Luc Godard

?, French / Japanese
Hardcover, 48 pages (all heavy board), 18.5 x 10.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by ? / Japan

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First and only edition of the one-of-a-kind Japanese Jean-Luc Godard "MADE IN U.S.A." film book. This photo souvenir book is printed on thick board pages and made up of full-colour stills from Godard's 1966 classic "MADE IN U.S.A.", starring Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud, László Szabó, Yves Afonso, and Marianne Faithfull. Includes text/dialogue fragments throughout in French; profiles on the actors, Godard, cinematographer Raoul Coutard, producer Georges de Beauregard; lyrics to Marianne Faithfull's featured "As Tears Go By"; comic strip; and other texts in Japanese and French.

A very special collectable Godard book.

"With its giddily complex noir plot and color-drenched widescreen images, Made in U.S.A was a final burst of exuberance from Jean-Luc Godard’s early sixties barrage of delirious movie-movies. Yet this chaotic crime thriller and acidly funny critique of consumerism—starring Anna Karina as the most brightly dressed private investigator in film history, searching for a former lover who might have been assassinated—also points toward the more political cinema that would come to define Godard. Featuring characters with names such as Richard Nixon, Robert McNamara, David Goodis, and Doris Mizoguchi, and appearances by a slapstick Jean-Pierre Léaud and a sweetly singing Marianne Faithfull, this piece of pop art is like a Looney Tunes rendition of The Big Sleep gone New Wave."

Very Good copy with some faint foxing/dustiness to pages.

File under: Marianne Faithfull Anna Karina Jean-Luc Godard ? / Japan Photography Film / Video Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare

My Life as a Godard Movie
by Joanna Walsh

2022, English
Softcover, 112 pages, 12.4 x 17.3 cm
Published by Transit Books / Oakland

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"It is rare to find a writer who can take such candid pleasure in beauty—the beauty of faces, figures, clothing, and cities—while also querying its injustices. To watch Godard's films through Joanna Walsh's eyes is to see envy and appreciation, longing and disavowal, walking hand in hand. This book is a gorgeous complex gesture of criticism."—Merve Emre, author of The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway

As Joanna Walsh watches the films of Jean-Luc Godard, she considers beauty and desire in life and art. “There’s a resistance, in Godard’s women,” writes Walsh, “that is at the heart of his work (and theirs).” She is captivated by the Paris of his films and the often porous border between the city presented on screen and the one she inhabited herself. With cool precision, and in language that shines with aphoristic wit, Walsh has crafted an exquisitely intimate portrait of the way attention to works of art becomes attention to changes in ourselves. Taut and gem-like, My Life as a Godard Movie is a probing meditation by one of our most observant writers.

Joanna Walsh is a multidisciplinary writer, artist and arts activist. The author of eleven books, including Hotel, Vertigo, Worlds from the Word's End Break*up, and Girl Online, she also writes for performance, visual art and digital narrative, often working with programming and AI. She is a UK Arts Foundation fellow, and the recipient of the Markievicz Award in the Republic of Ireland. She founded and ran #readwomen (2014-18), described by the New York Times as “a rallying cry for equal treatment for women writers” and currently runs @noentry_arts.

My Life as a Godard Movie is part of the Undelivered Lectures series.

“Joanna Walsh is fast becoming one of our most important writers.”—Deborah Levy, author of Real Estate

Joanna Walsh is a multidisciplinary writer for print, digital and performance. The author of seven books, including Hotel, Vertigo, Worlds from the Word's End and Break*up, she has two new projects with Verso, Girl Online and On Screens (coming 2023). She also works as a critic, editor, teacher and arts activist.

File under: Jean-Luc Godard Joanna Walsh Transit Books / Oakland Film / Video Theory / Essay Feminism Art

Cinema 2 : the Time-Image
by Gilles Deleuze

1986, English
Softcover, 352 pages, 13.8 x 21.6 cm
Published by University of Minnesota Press / Minnesota

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Reprint of the 1986 edition, translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam.

Brings to completion Deleuze’s work on the implications of the cinematographic image. In Cinema 2, Deleuze explains why, since World War II, time has come to dominate film. Among the filmmakers discussed are Rossellini, Fellini, Godard, Resnais, Pasolini, and many others.

File under: Roberto Rossellini Jean-Luc Godard Federico Fellini Alain Resnais Pier Paolo Pasolini Gilles Deleuze University of Minnesota Press / Minnesota Film / Video Philosophy Theory / Essay Art

FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART
By Amos Vogel

1974, English
Softcover, 335 pages, 22.5 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Random House / New York

$80.00 - Out of stock

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The first edition of Amos Vogel's seminal book, Film as a Subversive Art, one of the greatest books on cinema, published in 1974. Reprinted in 2005 by D.A.P./C.T. Editions, that edition also quickly went out of print and this landmark book has not been available since. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book details the "accelerating worldwide trend toward a more liberated cinema, in which subjects and forms hitherto considered unthinkable or forbidden are boldly explored."
So ahead of his time was Vogel that the ideas that he penned some 30 years ago for this classic volume are still relevant today. Accompanied by over 300 rare film stills, Film as a Subversive Art analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use one of the most powerful art forms of our day to exchange or manipulate our conscious and unconscious, demystify visual taboos, destroy dated cinematic forms, and undermine existing value systems and institutions. This subversion of form, as well as of content, is placed within the context of the contemporary world view of science, philosophy, and modern art, and is illuminated by a detailed examination of over 500 films, including many banned, rarely seen, or never released works.

Includes Luis Buñuel, Dusan Makavejev, Luis Buñuel, Stan Brakhage, Bruce Connor, Roman Polanski, Vera Chytilova, Alfred Hitchcock, Carolee Schneemann, Peter Watkins, Tony Conrad, Jonas Mekas, Andrei Tarkovsky, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Bresson, Luchino Visconti, Chris Marker, Federico Fellini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kate Millett, John Cassavettes, Shuji Terayama, William Klein, Russ Meyers, Louis Malle, Woody Allen, Yoko Ono, Michelangelo Antonioni, Agnes Varda, Walerian Borowczyk, Andy Warhol, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Rivette, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, Lindsay Anderson, Roberto Rossellini, Marguerite Duras, Charlie Chaplin, Paul Morrissey, Joseph Losey, Otto Muehl, Hans Richter, Fritz Lang, Jean Genet, Kenneth Anger, Maya Deren, Jean-Luc Godard, Frans Zwartjes, Arrabal, Jack Smith, Stan Vanderbeek, Werner Herzog, Morgan Fisher, Jean Renior, Michael Snow, Robert Frank, Jan Svankmajer, Sam Peckinpah, Paul Sharits, Akira Kurosawa, Yoko Ono, Orson Welles, Frederick Wiseman, Ken Jacobs, Martin Scorcese, Jean Cocteau, Manuel Octavio Gomez, Stanley Kubrick, Norman McLaren, Albert Maysles and David Maysles, to name only a few of the hundreds of film-makers whose works are featured in this essential film book.

File under: Luis Buñuel Dušan Makavejev Stan Brakhage Roman Polanski Vera Chytilova Alfred Hitchcock Carolee Schneemann Peter Watkins Tony Conrad Jonas Mekas Andrei Tarkovsky Marcel Duchamp Robert Bresson Luchino Visconti Chris Marker Federico Fellini Rainer Werner Fassbinder Kate Millett Shuji Terayama William Klein Russ Meyers Louis Malle Woody Allen Yoko Ono Michelangelo Antonioni Agnes Varda Andy Warhol Ingmar Bergman Jacques Rivette Lindsay Anderson Roberto Rossellini Marguerite Duras Charlie Chaplin Paul Morrissey Joseph Losey Otto Muehl Hans Richter Fritz Lang Jean Genet Kenneth Anger Maya Deren Jean-Luc Godard Frans Zwartjes Arrabal Jack Smith Stan Vanderbeek Werner Herzog Morgan Fisher Jean Renior Michael Snow Robert Frank Jan Svankmajer Sam Peckinpah Paul Sharits Akira Kurosawa Orson Welles Frederick Wiseman Ken Jacobs Martin Scorcese Jean Cocteau Manuel Octavio Gomez Stanley Kubrick Norman McLaren Walérian Borowczyk John Cassavetes Bruce Conner Sergei Eisenstein Amos Vogel Random House / New York Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Film / Video Art Surrealism Dada Eros Performance / Dance / Theater

The Crisis of Political Modernism : Criticism and Ideology in Contemporary Film Criticism
by D. N. Rodowick

1995, English
Softcover, 311 pages, 15.6 x 23.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by University of California Press / Berkley

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First 1995 paperback edition of The Crisis of Political Modernism : Criticism and Ideology in Contemporary Film Criticism. D.N. Rodowick offers a critical analysis of the development of film theory since 1968. He shows how debates concerning the literary principles of modernism—semiotics, structuralism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, and feminism—have transformed our understanding of cinematic meaning. Rodowick explores the literary paradigms established in France during the late 1960s and traces their influence on the work of diverse filmmaker/theorists including Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Gidal, Laura Mulvey, and Peter Wollen. By exploring the "new French feminisms" of Irigaray and Kristeva, he investigates the relation of political modernism to psychoanalysis and theories of sexual difference. In a new introduction written especially for this edition, Rodowick considers the continuing legacy of this theoretical tradition in relation to the emergence of cultural studies approaches to film.

David Norman Rodowick is an American philosopher, artist, and curator. He is best known for his contributions to cinema and media studies, visual cultural studies, critical theory, and aesthetics and the philosophy of art.

First 1995 paperback edition.

File under: Jean-Luc Godard Laura Mulvey Peter Wollen David Norman Rodowick University of California Press / Berkley Philosophy Theory / Essay Film / Video Feminism Art Out-of-print / Rare

Cinema 2 : the Time-Image
by Gilles Deleuze

1989, English
Softcover, 352 pages, 13.8 x 21.6 cm
Published by University of Minnesota Press / Minnesota

$55.00 - Out of stock

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1986 edition, translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam.

Brings to completion Deleuze’s work on the implications of the cinematographic image. In Cinema 2, Deleuze explains why, since World War II, time has come to dominate film. Among the filmmakers discussed are Rossellini, Fellini, Godard, Resnais, Pasolini, and many others.

Fifth printing of this 1986 edition (c. 1997), out-of-print.

File under: Alain Resnais Jean-Luc Godard Roberto Rossellini Federico Fellini Pier Paolo Pasolini Gilles Deleuze University of Minnesota Press / Minnesota Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Philosophy Art

documenta X
The Book: Politics Poetics

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 830 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by documenta / Kassel

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First English edition of this monumental 830 page book for documenta X, the last documenta of the twentieth century and the first directed by a woman, the French curator Catherine David, brings together the work of more than 100 of the world's foremost thinkers, writers, and artists in an extraordinary anthology of seminal texts and images of, on, and about the development of Western cultural and critical theory since 1945.

The book "seeks to indicate a political context for the interpretation of artistic activities at the close of the twentieth century, through a montage of images and documents from the immediate post-war period to the present. The range of material treated here is not encyclopaedic; it represents a polemical attempt to isolate specific strands of artistic production and political endeavour which can be taken as references in the contemporary debate over the evolution of our societies. Drawing from distinct yet interrelated territorial and linguistic domains, the book singles out complex cultural responses to the unifying processes of global modernity."—from the book jacket.

A comprehensive work in itself, rich with enmeshed texts and illustrations of artworks, film stills, historical documents throughout in colour and in black and white.

Writers include: Theodor W. Adorno, Maurice Blanchot, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Paul Celan, Amílcar Cabral, Masao Miyoshi, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jacques Rancière, Tadao Sato, Youssef Ishaghpour, Josef Beuys, Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rem Koolhaas, Sandra Álvarez de Toledo, Witold Gombrowicz, Herve Joubert-Laurencin, Jean-François Chevrier, Marguerite Duras, Edward Said, Henri Alleg, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Uwe Johnson, Jerzy Grotowski, James Clifford, Primo Levi, Pierre Clastres, Andrea Branzi, Fabrizio Gallanti, Gérard Chaliand, Stig Björkman, Daniel Defert, Saskia Sassen, Catherine David, Benjamin Buchloh, Paul Virilio, Serge Daney, Étienne Balibar, Nadia Tazi, and many others.....

Artists include : Archigram, Martin Kippenberger, Archizoom Associati, Art & Language, Hans Haacke, Oyvind Fahlström, Samuel Beckett, Franz West, Andrea Zittel, Heimo Zobernig, Nancy Spero, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Broodthaers, Lygia Clark, Jörg Herold, Fischli & Weiss, Dan Graham, Robert Adams, Peter Friedl, Paweł Althamer, Liam Gillick, Mike Kelley & Tony Oursler & Diedrich Diederichsen, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Ed van der Elsken, Walker Evans, Aldo van Eyck, Heiner Goebbels, William Kentridge, Ulrike Grossarth, Richard Hamilton, Vito Acconci, Raymond Hains, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Siobhán Hapaska, Ecke Bonk, Carsten Höller & Rosemarie Trockel, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Lois Weinberger, Hélio Oiticica, Gabriel Orozco, Olaf Nicolai, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Schütte, Marc Pataut, Gordon Matta-Clark, Christian Philipp Müller, Matt Mullican, Antoni Muntadas, Jean-Luc Moulène, Reinhard Mucha, Álvaro Siza, Toyo Ito, John C. Portman Jr., Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Mariella Mosler, Josef Beuys, Steve McQueen, Chris Marker, Lothar Baumgarten, Jean Dubuffet, Kerry James Marshall, Maria Lassnig, Rem Koolhaas, Joachim Koester, Suzanne Lafont, Sigalit Landau, Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand, Brassaï, Le Corbusier, Antonin Artaud, and so many more...

Very Good coy, light wear. Good dust jacket with some creasing and edge wear.

File under: Mike Kelley Tony Oursler Carsten Höller Rosemarie Trockel Archigram Martin Kippenberger Archizoom Associati Art & Language Hans Haacke Samuel Beckett Franz West Andrea Zittel Heimo Zobernig Jean-Luc Godard Marcel Broodthaers Lygia Clark Jörg Herold Fischli & Weiss Dan Graham Robert Adams Peter Friedl Öyvind Fahlström Paweł Althamer Liam Gillick Stan Douglas Harun Farocki Ed van der Elsken Walker Evans Aldo van Eyck Siobhán Hapaska Reinhard Mucha Mariella Mosler Steve McQueen Chris Marker Lothar Baumgarten Kerry James Marshall Maria Lassnig Rem Koolhaas Joachim Koester Suzanne Lafont Sigalit Landau Helen Levitt Garry Winogrand Jean-Luc Moulène Hélio Oiticica Thomas Schütte Christian Philip Muller Gabriel Orozco Olaf Nicolai Michelangelo Pistoletto Gerhard Richter Marc Pataut Gordon Matta-Clark Matt Mullican Antoni Muntadas Heiner Goebbels William Kentridge Ulrike Grossarth Richard Hamilton Vito Acconci Raymond Hains Ecke Bonk Carl Michael von Hausswolff Lois Weinberger Carsten Höller Pier Paolo Pasolini Joseph Beuys Nancy Spero Le Corbusier Brassaï Jean Dubuffet Alvaro Siza Toyo Ito Rainer Werner Fassbinder Paulo Mendes Da Rocha John C. Portman Jr. Antonin Artaud Diedrich Diederichsen Catherine David Yana Milev Klaus Biesenbach Nancy Spector Hans-Ulrich Obrist Theodor W. Adorno Maurice Blanchot Pier Paolo Pasolini Paul Celan Amílcar Cabral Masao Miyoshi Hannah Arendt Michel Foucault Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari Jacques Rancière Tadao Sato Youssef Ishaghpour Josef Beuys Samuel Beckett Albert Camus Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rem Koolhaas Sandra Álvarez de Toledo Witold Gombrowicz Herve Joubert-Laurencin Jean-François Chevrier Marguerite Duras Edward Said Henri Alleg Pierre Vidal-Naquet Uwe Johnson Jerzy Grotowski James Clifford Primo Levi Pierre Clastres Andrea Branzi Fabrizio Gallanti Gérard Chaliand Stig Björkman Daniel Defert Saskia Sassen Benjamin Buchloh Paul Virilio Serge Daney Étienne Balibar Nadia Tazi and many others documenta / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Australian Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Protest / Revolt Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Conceptual Art Film / Video Sound / Music Painting Photography Ecology

All Godard's Movies

1992, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 208 pages, 21 x 14.8 cm
Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Haga Bookstore / Japan

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The wonderful Japanese photo-book / "Cine Album" that documents Jean-Luc Godard's film works through to 1983, from "Tous les garçons s'appellent Patrick" (1957 w. Eric Rohmer) to "Lettre à Freddy Buache" (1982), each film chapter profusely illustrated with lush colour and b/w photographs summarising the scenes of the film, and including behind the scenes images, photofiles on all Godard's "stars", everyone is here — Anna, Isabelle, Jean-Paul, Brigitte, Chantal, Jean-Pierre, Anne, Hanna, Mick, Eddie, Marina, Nathalie, Macha... Absolutely exploding with hundreds of images crammed into over 200 pages. Published by the great Haga Bookstore imprint.

Fine copy in dust jacket.

File under: Jean-Luc Godard Brigitte Bardot Anna Karina Hanna Schygulla Macha Méril Isabelle Huppert Jean-Paul Belmondo Jean Seberg Anne Wiazemsky Marina Vlady Nathalie Baye Jean-Pierre Léaud Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones Eddie Constantine Haga Bookstore / Japan Photography Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Art

FILM Quarterly No. 6, 1970

1970, Japanese
Softcover, 180 pages, 26 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Film Art Inc. / Tokyo

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Scarce copy of issue no. 6 of Film Quarterly, an important but short-lived film theory periodical published out of Tokyo in the late 1960s—early 1970s. With incredible psychedelic covers by graphic designer Kiyoshi Awazu, this issue is dedicated largely to three leading European film directors of the avant-garde — Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Fellini, and Michelangelo Antonioni, but also features articles on Takahiko Iimura and Alain Resnais, amongst much more. Includes interviews and many essays in Japanese, with illustrations, film stills and collages scattered throughout. Contributioning editorial committee of Japanese critics, film-makers and composers includes Takahiko Iimura, Toru Takemitsu, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Yusuke Nakahara, Toshio Matsumoto, Koichi Yamada. Say no more!

Good copy with repaired, closed tear to back-cover, otherwise Very Good rest with only light wear.

File under: Jean-Luc Godard Federico Fellini Michelangelo Antonioni Alain Resnais Takahiko Iimura Toru Takemitsu Hiroshi Teshigahara Yusuke Nakahara Toshio Matsumoto Koichi Yamada Film Art Inc. / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Film / Video Theory / Essay Art

Evergreen Review
Vol. 12 No. 56 July 1968

1968, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Evergreen Review Inc. / New York

$20.00 - Out of stock

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Vol. 12 No. 56 July 1968 issue of Evergreen Review. This issue features "I Was Curious" diary by Vilgot Sjoman, Timothy Leary, John Lahr and Vilgot Sjoman interview on Sex and Politics, Tom Stoppard, Nat Hentoff, story by Aki Tanino, three poems by Tam Fiofori, story by Goffredo Parise, "Psychedelic Burlesque!" pictorial by Mary Ellen Mark, A conversation with "Abu Amar" by Abdullah Schleifer, Jean-Luc Godard's "La Chinoise", plus regular features, illustrations and much more.

The Evergreen Review was a U.S. based literary magazine founded by Barney Rosset, publisher of Grove Press, and editor Don Allen and Fred Jordan in 1957. It existed in print form until 1973. Evergreen Review debuted pivotal works by Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Marguerite Duras, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg, Günter Grass, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, Pablo Neruda, Vladimir Nabokov, Frank O’Hara, Kenzaburō Ōe, Octavio Paz, Harold Pinter, Susan Sontag, Tom Stoppard, Derek Walcott and Malcolm X. United States Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas wrote a controversial piece for the magazine in 1969. Kerouac and Ginsberg regularly had their writing published in the magazine. "Evergreen published writing that was literally counter to the culture, and if it was sexy, so much the better. In the context of the time, sex was politics, and the powers-that-be made the suppression of sexuality a political issue. The court battles that Grove Press fought for the legal publication of Lady Chatterly's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, and Naked Lunch, and for the legal distribution of the film I Am Curious: Yellow, spilled onto the pages of Evergreen Review, and in 1964, an issue of Evergreen itself was confiscated in New York State by the Nassau County District Attorney on obscenity charges...

File under: Jean-Luc Godard Vilgot Sjoman Vilgot Sjoman Timothy Leary John Lahr Nat Hentoff Evergreen Review Inc. / New York Performance / Dance / Theater Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Periodicals Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Eros Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture

May #20

2021, English / French
Softcover, 256 pages, 17.5 x 24 cm
Published by May Revue / Paris

$32.00 - Out of stock

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I will not interpret Jack Smith. I will not interpret Jack Smith. I will not interpret Jack… — Felix Bernstein

Finally, a new issue of long standing favourite May revue, with a cover feature on American filmmaker, actor, performance artist and pioneer of underground cinema, Jack Smith (1932 –1989)!

Jack Smith (Michael Krebber, Felix Bernstein, Enzo Shalom, Branden W. Joseph), Gary Indiana, Bruce Hainley and Sohrab Mohebbi, Jean-Luc Godard by Ferdinand Gouzon, Leilah Weinraub by Juliana Huxtable, Nina Könnemann by Megan Francis Sullivan, Louise Lawler by Nick Irvin, Claire Fontaine by Anita Chari, Robert Malaval by Valentin Gleyze, Afuma (Stefan Tcherepnin & Taketo Shimada) by Keith Connolly, Park McArthur by Noah Barker, Ken Okiishi by Felix Bernstein...

Conceived as a collective space in which to develop thoughts and confront positions on artistic production, May magazine examines, twice a year, contemporary art practice and theory in direct engagement with the issues, contexts and strategies that construct these two fields. An approach that could be summed up as critique at work – or as critique actively performed in text and art forms alike.
Featuring essays, interviews, art works and reviews by artists, writers and diverse practitioners of the arts, the magazine also intends to address the economy of the production of knowledge – the starting point of this reflection being the space of indistinction between information and advertisment typical of our time. This implies a dialogue with forms of critique produced in other fields.

File under: Jack Smith Michael Krebber Jean-Luc Godard Juliana Huxtable Nina Könnemann Ken Okiishi Robert Malaval Louise Lawler Megan Francis Sullivan Claire Fontaine Leilah Weinraub Park McArthur Afuma (Stefan Tcherepnin and Taketo Shimada) Bernadette Van-Huy Stefan Tcherepnin Taketo Shimada Felix Bernstein Enzo Shalom Branden W. Joseph Bruce Hainley Sohrab Mohebbi Ferdinand Gouzon Megan Francis Sullivan Nick Irvin Anita Chari Keith Connolly Noah Barker Valentin Gleyze Gary Indiana May Revue / Paris Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Painting Periodicals Theory / Essay Art Sculpture / Installation

One Plus One
Jean-Luc Godard

1996, Japanese
Softcover, 48 pages, 26.5 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Comstock / Japan

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce Japanese movie program book for Jean-Luc Godard's 1968 film "One Plus One" (Sympathy for the Devil), published exclusively in Japan by Comstock in the mid-1990s. Reproduces many amazing full-bleed stills from the film in colour and black and white, behind the scenes photos, texts by famed Japanese music critic Mike M. Koshitani, spreads of "Mike's Stones' Collection" (Mr. Koshitani's collection of Rolling Stones related newspapers and magazines from the period), cast biographies, Godard filmography, Stones discography, and more.

After May 1968, French film director Jean-Luc Godard moved to London to film the Rolling Stones recording “Sympathy for the Devil.” In Sympathy for the Devil, Godard juxtaposed the Rolling Stones rehearsing with seemingly unrelated scenes with a soundtrack featuring, among others, the Black Panthers. The film showed the Stones at work, deconstructing the myth of the genius creator.

Fine, almost As New copy.

File under: Jean-Luc Godard The Rolling Stones The Black Panthers Comstock / Japan Film / Video Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare Photography

Bande à part
Jean-Luc Godard

2001, Japanese
Softcover, 66 pages, 29.7 × 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by ? / Japan

$60.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare Japanese movie program of Jean-Luc Godard's "Bande à part" (Band of Outsiders, 1964), published in 2001 and exclusively distributed in Japan. For a movie program this title feels more like a book, rich with black and white photographs from the film and texts in Japanese.

"Four years after Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard reimagined the gangster film even more radically with Band of Outsiders (Bande à part). In it, two restless young men (Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur) enlist the object of both of their fancies (Anna Karina) to help them commit a robbery—in her own home. This audacious and wildly entertaining French New Wave gem is at once sentimental and insouciant, effervescently romantic and melancholy, and it features some of Godard’s most memorable set pieces, including the headlong race through the Louvre and the unshakably cool Madison dance sequence."

Very Good copy.

File under: Jean-Luc Godard ? / Japan Film / Video Photography Out-of-print / Rare

Continental Film Review August 1967

1967, English
Softcover, 32 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Eurap / London

$35.00 - Out of stock

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Continental Film Review, August 1967 issue, includes the films of Yoko Ono, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, Rodolfo Kuhn, Georges Combret, Francois Truffaut, Louis Malle, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Louis Bastid, Evald Schorm, Jan Svankmeyer, Juraj Jakubisko, Hynek Bočan, Gianfranco Mingozzi, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alberto Lattuada, Jerzy Skolimowski, Ryszard Ber, and so many more. Heavily illustrated throughout.

Continental Film Review, founded in the UK in 1952, was an 'international' film magazine dedicated to foreign film, colloquially referred to in the UK and Australia as Continental Film. In its attitudes towards sex, art, politics and ethnic diversity, the Continental cinema audience anticipated the more widespread social and cultural changes that would transform society in the 1960s and 1970s. Continental Film Review purported to be a somewhat serious film journal devoted to the new cinema of the 1950-1980s, particularly European cinema, but clearly also had a prurient interest in the scantily-clad and often nude young actresses who starred the films of the era. That said, many of the new wave of directors and their films would be seldom documented anywhere else, making Continental Film Review a wonderful time-capsule of a more freely expressive time in film making.

File under: Yoko Ono Jean-Luc Godard Eric Rohmer Rodolfo Kuhn Georges Combret Francois Truffaut Louis Malle Ingmar Bergman Jean-Louis Bastid Evald Schorm Jan Svankmeyer Juraj Jakubisko Hynek Bočan Gianfranco Mingozzi Michelangelo Antonioni Alberto Lattuada Jerzy Skolimowski Ryszard Ber Eurap / London Eros Out-of-print / Rare Art Film / Video Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Periodicals

A Pictorial History of SF Films

1980, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket in slipcase), 447 pages, 32 x 22.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Fantasia Co Ltd / Japan

$160.00 - Out of stock

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First deluxe edition of the illustrated Japanese encyclopaedic tome that explores the history of Science Fiction film, from early silent film to the modern era. Published in 1980 by special effects expert and editor of SFX Cinematic Illusion Shinji Nakako, A Pictorial History of SF Films compiles an exhaustive directory of chronological film listings from all over the world (including many unreleased Japanese sci-fi films, fantasy, horror, thriller, animation, and much beyond the usual SF category) through the decades. With comprehensive film details, credits and blurbs (in Japanese) for each film selection, illustrated with stills and each period including rich colour reproductions of the original film posters! Includes a neat, full index of the films included (in English and in Japanese), accompanied by thumbnails of Yoda, all housed in the original Hajime Sorayama illustrated dust jacket in original publishers heavy cardboard slipcase. A treasure for the SF fan.

Very Good copy, with small closed tears to jacket, preserved under mylar wrap and in VG original slipcase. Beautifully preserved copy.

File under: Hajime Sorayama Stanley Kubrick Jean-Luc Godard Roland Topor René Laloux George Lucas David Cronenberg François Truffaut Andrei Tarkovsky Alfred Hitchcock Fritz Lang Luis Buñuel Robert Wise Peter Weir John Boorman John Carpenter George A. Romero Ridley Scott Robert Altman Dario Argento Lindsay Anderson Steven Spielberg Saul Bass Louis Malle Bruno Bozzetto Nicolas Roeg Brian de Palma Richard Fleischer Mel Brooks Terry Gilliam Ralph Bakshi Charles Band Irwin Allen George Miller Jim Henson Fantasia Co Ltd / Japan Film / Video Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Out-of-print / Rare

Bande à part
Jean-Luc Godard

1993, French
Softcover, 144 pages, 12 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Editions Yellow Now / Belgium

$50.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of the 1993 French photo-book of Jean-Luc Godard's "Bande à part" (Band of Outsiders, 1964), published in Belgium and written by Barthélemy Amengual, the Algerian born film critic, essayist, historian, educator, and film club host who settled in Paris in 1968 where he would write for the film periodicals Cahiers du Cinéma, Positif, French Screen, Young Cinema, CinémAction and more.
Alongside profuse photographic documentation through beautiful film stills, this landscape book compiles Amengual's accounts and commentary of this iconic genre-defying milestone of French New Wave cinema, conversations with director Jean-Luc Godard and cinematographer Raoul Coutard, filmography, bibliography, and more. An ingenious and unconventional study by one of the greatest names in French criticism.

"Four years after Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard reimagined the gangster film even more radically with Band of Outsiders (Bande à part). In it, two restless young men (Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur) enlist the object of both of their fancies (Anna Karina) to help them commit a robbery—in her own home. This audacious and wildly entertaining French New Wave gem is at once sentimental and insouciant, effervescently romantic and melancholy, and it features some of Godard’s most memorable set pieces, including the headlong race through the Louvre and the unshakably cool Madison dance sequence."

File under: Jean-Luc Godard Barthélemy Amengual Editions Yellow Now / Belgium Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Photography

TENSION 11
Images - Ideas - Style : Jan / Feb 1987

1987, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 50 pages, 27 x 33 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Tension / South Yarra

$30.00 - Out of stock

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Tension 11 (Images - Ideas - Style : Jan / Feb 1987) features Brett Whiteley (interview by Phillip Adams), Stieg Persson (interview by Ashley Crawford), Jean-Marc Lepechoux (interview by Ashley Crawford), Peter Greenaway (interview by Ashley Crawford), Derek Jarman (interview by Melanie Brellis), "Godard, Mieville" (by Adrian Martin), Elfi Mikesch & Monika Trent (interview by Amree Hewitt), Neil Jordon, gallerists Mary Boone & Michael Werner (by Paul Taylor), RAW : Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly (interview by Kerri Phillips), Run DMC / Def Jam Records (by Peter Grace), and much more.

TENSION (1983-1990) was one of the central "popular" culture arts periodicals to come out of Melbourne in the 1980s, emerging from the ashes of Virgin Press. Independently published and edited by critic Ashley Crawford, Tension magazine lasted for 25 bi-monthly issues dedicated to Art, Music, Fashion, Theatre, Film, Photography, across reviews, interviews, reports, critical essays and artist pages. Now an important document of culture in Australia, and especially Melbourne in the 1980s, issues featured the writing and contributions of Paul Taylor, McKenzie Wark, Mike Parr, John Nixon, Catharine Lumby, Philip Brophy, Adrian Martin, Ashley Crawford, Peter Tyndall, Jean Baudrillard, Timothy Leary, Gerard Malanga, Keith Haring, Gerald Murnane, and many more. In 1985 Crawford, with John Buckley, staged an exhibition issue of the magazine, 'Visual Tension', at ACCA featuring the work of Howard Arkley, Marianne Baillieu, Peter Booth, Paul Boston, Peter Cripps, Richard Dunn, Maria Kozic, John Lethbridge, Geoff Lowe, Linda Marrinon, John Matthews, John Nixon, Stieg Persson, Robert Rooney, Gareth Sansom, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Imants Tillers, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, John Young.

File under: Stieg Persson Brett Whiteley Peter Greenaway Derek Jarman Jean-Luc Godard Elfi Mikesch Monika Trent Jean-Marc Lepechoux Neil Jordon Art Spiegelman Francoise Mouly Anne-Marie Miéville Ashley Crawford Melanie Brellis Paul Taylor Amree Hewitt Tension / South Yarra Art Film / Video Sound / Music Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Australian Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Feminism Photography Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare