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”
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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”
345: Adieu, Monsieur Haffmann
Archival Spaces 345 Adieu, Monsieur Haffmann (2021) Uploaded 19 April 2024 On 14 April, Hilary Helstein and the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival hosted a screening of Farewell, Mr. Haffmann (2011) at the Laemmle Royal in Santa Monica Blvd. It is a film about the Holocaust, more specifically about the French participation in the genocideContinue reading “345: Adieu, Monsieur Haffmann”
344: Anti-Semitic Film History
Archival Spaces 344 Nazi Film History: Film “Kunst” Film Kohn Film Korruption Uploaded 5 April 1924 Like most of my fellow film historians, I had never actually read the 1937 Nazi tract disguised as film history, Carl Neumann, Curt Belling, and Hans-Walther Betz’s Film-“Kunst”, Film Kohn, Film-Korruption. Ein Streifzug durch vier Film-Jahrzehnte, although I hadContinue reading “344: Anti-Semitic Film History”
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