Archival Spaces 251 The Thanhouser Collection DVD, Vols. 13, 14 & 15 (1911-1916) Uploaded 11 September 2020 Ned Thanhouser, the grandson of the founder of the Thanhouser Film Company, Edwin Thanhouser, has been busy over the past decade, finding lost films and preserving them in conjunction with various film archives, including the British Film Institute,Continue reading “251: Thanhouser Collection”
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250: Volker Schlöndorff’s Baal
Archival Spaces 250 Volker Schlöndorff’s Baal (1970) Uploaded 28 August 2020 When I was a teenager, I was fascinated with Bertolt Brecht. I saw my first Brecht play, “The Rise and Fall of Arturo Ui” at the Ruhr Festspiele in 1965, which featured 20 foot high puppets. For my senior thesis in Betty Nichols’ English honors classContinue reading “250: Volker Schlöndorff’s Baal “
249: Louise Brooks
Archival Spaces 249 The Last Days of Louise Brooks Uploaded 15 August 2020 Louise Brooks died 35 years ago this week on 8 August 1985. I met Louise Brooks for the first time in 1975, long after her Hollywood career had ended, when she was living on N. Goodman Street in Rochester, N.Y., around the blockContinue reading “249: Louise Brooks”
248: Kevon Brownlow’s It Happened Here
Archival Spaces 248 Kevin Brownlow’s It Happened Here (1964) Downloaded 31 July 2020 I can’t believe it has taken me nearly fifty years to catch up with Kevin Brownlow’s first feature film, It Happened Here, which had its UK premiere at the London Film Festival on 1 November 1964. I first became aware of the film sometime in lateContinue reading “248: Kevon Brownlow’s It Happened Here”
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