Archival Spaces 257 Cinefest: Cinema, War and Tulips Downloaded 4 December 2020 The 17th International Festival of German Film Patrimony, sponsored by the Hamburg Cinegraph, screened online from 14 to 22 November: “Cinema, War and Tulips. German-Dutch Film Relations;” it was accompanied by a film historical conference (20-22 November). I’ll discuss the conference in my nextContinue reading “257: Cinefest Hamburg”
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256: Hannah Arendt
Archival Spaces 256 Hannah Arendt – the Movie (2012) Downloaded 20 November 2020 There is a scene near the end of Margarete von Trotta’s masterful biopic, Hannah Arendt (2012), in which Prof. Arendt’s academic colleagues move away from her as she sits down in the faculty cafeteria, after in February 1962 she has published her controversial reportage, EichmannContinue reading “256: Hannah Arendt”
255: Leo Hurwitz’s Strange Victory
Archival Spaces 255 CINE SALON BEYOND with Leo Hurwitz’s Strange Victory (1948) Uploaded 6 November 2020 Dartmouth’s Film and Media Studies Department recently sponsored a CINE SALON BEYOND (online) with host Bruce Posner and Tom Hurwitz, the award-winning documentary filmmaker who is the son of Leo Hurwitz. The event included clips from Tom’s soon-to-be-released Can You Bring It? (2020),Continue reading “255: Leo Hurwitz’s Strange Victory”
254: Giornate del cinema muto
Archival Spaces 254 Giornate del cinema muto: Limited Edition Downloaded 23 October 2020 Given the continued worldwide COVID pandemic, the organizers of the Giornate del cinema muto, decided to stage an abridged version of the “Days of Silent Film” online, 3-10 October 2020. Each day’s program included at least one feature, – always a newContinue reading “254: Giornate del cinema muto”