Archival Spaces 293: Austria Made in Hollywood Uploaded 15 April 2022 Back in December, I reported on the Academy Film Museum Symposium “Vienna in Hollywood. The Influence and Impact of Austrians on the Hollywood Film Industry 1920s – 2020s.” Now, I have finally caught up with an excellent book that focuses less on Austrians inContinue reading “293: Austria on Hollywood’s Screens”
Author Archives: Jan-Christopher Horak
292: Film Erotica
Archival Spaces 292 Film Erotica in Papal Film Archives Uploaded 1 April 2022 My wife and I have been in Rome for the past ten days. Since this is not our first trip to Rome, we have forgone most of the Roman antiquities sites, and have focused on visiting libraries, archives, and private collections ofContinue reading “292: Film Erotica”
291: Missing Movies
Archival Spaces 291 The “Missing Movies” Manifesto Uploaded 18 March 2022 Recently, film director Nancy Savoca and screenwriting partner, Richard Guay realized that their 1993 film, Household Saints, could not be screened at Columbia University, because of copyright problems. Nancy eventually worked with her lawyer, Susan Bodine, and Ira Deutchman, the film’s original distributor, toContinue reading “291: Missing Movies”
290: Julien Duvivier’s Films of Religiosity
Archival Spaces: 290 Julien Duvivier’s Films of Religiosity Uploaded 4 March 2022 Over the course of the years from 1927 to 1929, Julien Duvivier directed and wrote three films with overt religious subject matter, all of them very much personal projects, products of his Jesuit education: L’Agonie de Jerusalem/Revelation (1927), Le divine croisière/The Divine VoyageContinue reading “290: Julien Duvivier’s Films of Religiosity”
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