Archival Spaces 351 Film/Whitney Biennial Uploaded 12 July 2024 I last viewed the Whitney Biennial more than ten years ago, when the Whitney Museum was still located in the Breuer Building on Madison Ave.. However, in 2017 I reviewed the Whitney exhibition, Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016(Archival Spaces 200 https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/archival-spaces/2016/11/25/dreamlands-immersive-cinema), the museum now locatedContinue reading “351: Isaac Julien @ Whitney Biennial”
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350: Spanish Hollywood
Archival Spaces 350 Spanish-Language Cinema Hollywood, 1929-39 Uploaded 28 June 2024 Back in 2017, I organized a major Getty-funded exhibition, Recuerdos de un cine en español: Latin American Cinema in Los Angeles, 1930-1960,” with the help of my co-curators, Maria Elena de las Carreras, Colin Gunkel, and Alejandra Espasande-Bouza, which presented forty-one films from Hollywood,Continue reading “350: Spanish Hollywood”
349: German film operettas
Archival Spaces 349 UFA greets Lubitsch: Early Sound Film Operettas Uploaded 14 June 2024 In November 2023, I gave a keynote, titled “UFA greets Lubitsch,” at Cinegraph’s annual film historical symposium, “Danger! Music…Between Film Comedy and Musical.” My Archival Spaces 336 discussed their film program of Weimar German sound films, which included many discoveries ofContinue reading “349: German film operettas”
348: Academy Museum’s Jewish Film Pioneers
Archival Spaces 348 Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital Uploaded 31 May 2024 Two weeks ago, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Academy Museum opened what most observers called their mea culpa exhibition on Hollywood’s Jewish Pioneers, “Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital,” which occupiesContinue reading “348: Academy Museum’s Jewish Film Pioneers”
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