Archival Spaces 390 My Short Government Career Uploaded 9 January 2025 In the Fall of 1987, I received a call from David Paul, a producer at the United States Information Agency, asking if I could compile for them a list of German Academy Award winners. No problem. He followed up with a letter a monthContinue reading “390: United States Information Agency”
Author Archives: Jan-Christopher Horak
389: Saul Bass & Oscar
Archival Spaces 389: Saul Bass wins an Academy Award Uploaded 26 December 2025 Ten years ago, in 2015, I published Saul Bass: Anatomy of Film Design, a University of Kentucky Press book, a French edition arriving seven years later. Not many people know that George Lucas worked for Saul and accompanied him to the 41stContinue reading “389: Saul Bass & Oscar”
388: Riefenstahl
Archival Spaces 388: Riefenstahl (2024) – The Movie Uploaded 12 December 2025 The penultimate scene in Andres Veiel’s new documentary, Riefenstahl (2024), which opened recently in Los Angeles, shows footage that producer Sandra Maischberger possibly shot in ca. 2002, when Leni Riefenstahl was over 100 years old. In close-up, the Nazi diva frets fussily inContinue reading “388: Riefenstahl”
387: Nazi Film History II
Archival Spaces 387: Otto Krieg’s German Film in the Mirror of the Ufa Uploaded 28 November 2025 By 1943, the Ufa was not only the largest German film company, as it had been in the Weimar Republic, but the only German film company, nationalized and under direct control of Joseph Goebbels’ Nazi Propaganda Ministry. InContinue reading “387: Nazi Film History II”
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