Archival Spaces 302 Summer of ‘62 Uploaded 19 August 2022 Heinz Erhardt was an extremely popular comedian in 1950s cinema of the German Federal Republic. I have been watching some of his films on YouTube because I’m writing about William Thiele’s penultimate feature film, The Last Pedestrian (1960) for a Thiele book I’m editing withContinue reading “302: Summer of ’62”
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301: Restoring HYPOCRITES (1915)
Archival Spaces 301 Lois Weber’s Hypocrites Restored Uploaded 5 August 2022 Several weeks ago, Phil Carli premiered his new Silent Cinema Salon (https://philipcarli.com/), presenting a new restoration of Lois Weber’s Hypocrites (1915, Lois Weber) in his Rochester living room with live piano accompaniment. Carli is, of course, very well-known in the United States and abroadContinue reading “301: Restoring HYPOCRITES (1915)”
300: Film Scholarship Without Films?
Archival Spaces 300 Tel Aviv Symposium: A Film Scholarship Without Films? Uploaded 21 July 2022 Back in the early 1980s, my colleague and friend, Ute Eskildsen, and I organized an exhibition and published a catalog on Helmar Lerski, the New Realist photographer in Weimar Germany and a pioneering filmmaker in Jewish Palestine. Out of thatContinue reading “300: Film Scholarship Without Films?”
299: Orphanistas Gather
Archival Spaces 299 NYU Orphans Film Symposium Uploaded 7 July 2022 I attended my first Orphans Film Symposium in 1999, which was also the first iteration of what has become an important event in the moving image archival field. Orphan films refer to films that have fallen out of copyright or have never been copyrighted,Continue reading “299: Orphanistas Gather”
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