Marcel Moussy Screenwriter (4 results)

Vintage oversize borderless double weight photograph of Charles Aznavour and Michele Mercier from the 1960 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso. Aznavour spends half his time playing saloon piano and half his time on the run in this early Truffaut masterpiece, one of the great French noirs, based on the 1956 hard-boiled novel "Down There" by American pulp author David Goodis. Criterion notes: "François Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this, his most playful film. Part thriller, part comedy, part tragedy, Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie (Charles Aznavour, in a triumph of hangdog deadpan) as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. Loaded with gags, guns, clowns, and thugs, this razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure nouvelle vague." 11.5 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection. Grant France.…

Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of actor Charles Aznavour and director François Truffaut on the set of the 1960 film. Annotations in manuscript ink and a printed provenance label on the verso. Aznavour spends half his time playing saloon piano and half his time on the run in this early Truffaut masterpiece, one of the great French noirs, based on the 1956 hard-boiled novel "Down There" by American pulp author David Goodis. Criterion notes: "François Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this, his most playful film. Part thriller, part comedy, part tragedy, Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie (Charles Aznavour, in a triumph of hangdog deadpan) as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. Loaded with gags, guns, clowns, and thugs, this razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure nouvelle vague." 9 x 11.25 inches. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 315. Grant France.…

Vintage borderless reference photograph, with bottom margin, of François Truffaut and Guy Decomble on the set of the 1959 film. "Les Quatre Cents Coups" and "Telerama" stamps on verso. Truffaut's auspicious debut, winner of Best Director at Cannes, nominated for the Palme d'Or, and also nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar the following year. Set in and shot on location in Paris, France. 6.75 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 5. Ebert I. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000.…

Original French Grande poster for the 1959 film. Poster design by Boris Grinsson. Truffaut's auspicious debut, winner of Best Director at Cannes, nominated for the Palme d'Or, and also nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar the following year. 47 x 62 inches. Linen backed and rolled. Bright and Fine. Capitaine 207. Warren, Vol. 1, p. 159.…