Archival Spaces 354 Prelude to World War II: Documentaries Uploaded 23 August 2024 In the Summer of 1938 my dad, Jerome V. Horak, was mobilized into the Czechoslovak Army and received rudimentary basic training when it looked like an invasion by Nazi Germany was imminent. Less than a month later, he was sent home, afterContinue reading “354 Prelude to War”
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353: Anti-Nazi Western
Archival Spaces 353 John Wayne’s Anti-Nazi Western Uploaded 9 August 2024 When I wrote my dissertation on anti-Nazi films made in Hollywood by German Jewish Refugees, I included chapters on the depiction of the Fifth Column, life in Nazi Germany, and the anti-Nazi resistance in occupied Europe. I mentioned that the topic of anti-Nazi refugeesContinue reading “353: Anti-Nazi Western”
352: Riefenstahl
Archival Spaces 352 Meeting Leni Riefenstahl Uploaded 26 July 2024 In March 1976, Robert Doherty, the Director of George Eastman Museum asked me to travel to New York to meet with Leni Riefenstahl, the infamous film director of Triumph of the Will (1935) and Olympia, Parts I and II (1938). At the time, Riefenstahl hadContinue reading “352: Riefenstahl”
351: Isaac Julien @ Whitney Biennial
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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