Archival Spaces 312 Murray Glass – Em Gee Film Library Uploaded 6 January 2023 I’ve been thinking about Murray Glass for the last couple of months because I had planned to interview him for a blog, only to realize that he had died in 2019 shortly before the pandemic started, completely forgotten, certainly without anyContinue reading “312: Em Gee Film Library”
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311: Sirk-Fassbinder-Haynes
Archival Spaces 311 Douglas Sirk’s All I Desire (1953) Uploaded 23 December 2022 For the past couple of months I have been researching and planning a lecture course for UCLA, FTV 113 Film Authors, which will focus on the careers of Douglas Sirk, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Todd Haynes. Not only have all three specializedContinue reading “311: Sirk-Fassbinder-Haynes”
310: The DuPont Story
Archival Spaces 310 The DuPont Story (1950) Uploaded 9 December 2022 With Senator Gerald Nye (R, ND) back in the news as an insurrectionist and anti-Semite, the political predecessor of Jim Jordan, I was reminded of his early 30’s project of blaming Jewish bankers and armaments manufacturers, like DuPont, for getting America into World WarContinue reading “310: The DuPont Story”
309: Art Cinemas in Crisis
Archival Spaces 309 Only in Theatres (2022) Uploaded 25 November 2022 There is a shot in the new documentary Only in Theatres of Greg Laemmle, the CEO of the storied Laemmle Theatres in Los Angeles, patiently putting up new lettering on the marquee, a cumbersome still analog process. The image is not only emblematic ofContinue reading “309: Art Cinemas in Crisis”
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