Archival Spaces 407: The Saga of Gösta Berling (1924, Maurice Stiller) Uploaded 4 September 2026 This year’s Silent Film Festival in Bonn, Germany, was held between 13 and 22 August 2026. The open-air festival in Bonn included 14 features and six shorts. An abridged program was available for streaming here in Germany, but did notContinue reading “407: Bonn Silent Film Festival”
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406: Letty Lynton Restored
Archival Spaces 406: Letty Lyndon (1932) screened at American Legion Hollywood Uploaded 21 August 2026 On 25 July 2026, the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles and Hollywood Heritage presented a matinee screening of Clarence Brown’s Letty Lynton (1932), a film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, and Nils Asther, which had not been available forContinue reading “406: Letty Lynton Restored”
405: Voskovec & Werich 2
Archival Spaces 405: The World Belongs to Us (1937) Uploaded 7 August 2026 In my last blog, I discussed the films of the Czech comedy team, Jiří Voskovec & Jan Werich, available on a 4-disc-set, produced by the Czech National Film Archive, now apparently out of print. I wanted to spend more time discussing theContinue reading “405: Voskovec & Werich 2”
404: Czech Avant-Garde
Archival Spaces 404: Voskovec & Werich Uploaded 24 July 2026 My Dad grew up in Prague in the 1930s, a teenager. He later raved to me about Voskovec and Werich, who he had seen both on stage at the Liberated Theatre, and in the cinema. I thought about him when I recently pulled out ofContinue reading “404: Czech Avant-Garde”
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