Up at the Villa (Archive of working material from the 2000 film, including an annotated script and production documents)

  • N.p.: N.p., 1998
By W. Somerset Maugham (novella); Sean Penn, Kristin Scott Thomas, Derek Jacobi, Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Jeremy Davies (starring); Philip Haas (director); Belinda Haas (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1998. Archive of material from the 2000 romance film, including a draft script and several gatherings of production material. Archive belonging to assistant costume designer Jane Hamilton, with her name on several revision pages, and her annotations in manuscript pencil on several leaves, relating to costuming.

Archive includes a bound gathering of information regarding lodging, food, communication, transportation, and more during filming on location in Italy, along with a cast list. Also included are 15 manuscript leaves extensively detailing costuming for lead actors in the film, along with multiple shooting schedules, scene breakdowns, and call sheets.

Based on W. Somerset Maugham's 1941 novella "Up at the Villa." An English widow finds herself pressured to remarry in order to better her circumstances, having been left nearly destitute by her late husband, an abusive alcoholic.

Set in Florence, shot on location in Florence and Tuscany.

Script housed in a black three-ring binder. Title page present, dated May 15th, 1998, with credits for Maugham and screenwriter Belinda Haas. 137 leaves, with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with pink and yellow revision pages throughout, dated variously between June 5 and July 13, 1998. Pages Near Fine.

Production documents housed in a coral three-ring binder. Contents generally Very Good plus to Near Fine.

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