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”

347: Bushman rediscovered

Archival Spaces 347 Bushman  (1971/2023) rediscovered Uploaded 17 May 2024 Milestone and Kino Lorber are releasing a Blu-ray of a new restoration of Bushman (1971) on 21 May 2024, a film that was not exactly overlooked when it first screened – it was praised by critics – but it never found a distributor. Directed byContinue reading “347: Bushman rediscovered”

346: G.W. Pabst redux

Arrchival Spaces 346 G.W. Pabst rewritten: Daniel Kehlmann’s novel, Lichtspiel Uploaded 3 May 2024 Film historians consider G.W. Pabst one of the three most accomplished German film directors of the first half of the 20th century. One of my first grad student papers concerned G.W. Pabst’s Three Penny Opera (1931), written for George Bluestone’s seminarContinue reading “346: G.W. Pabst redux”