339: Kinemathek Update

Archival Spaces 339 Deutsche Kinemathek Update Uploaded 26 January 2024 The news took a little longer to arrive than initially indicated in my Archival Spaces 319 blog (https://archivalspaces.com/2023/04/14/319-deutsche-kinemathek/)), but it is good, indeed. As reported in April 2023, the Deutsche Kinemathek and Museum für Film und Fernsehen on Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz had lost its leaseContinue reading “339: Kinemathek Update”

338: The Kawakita Diaries

Archival Spaces 338 The Kawakita Diaries 1932 Uploaded 15 January 2024 In April 1993, I was invited by my colleague (and now long-time friend), Hisashi Okajima of the Film Center at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, to give the opening lecture for their three-month film program, “American Films – The Little Known.”Continue reading “338: The Kawakita Diaries”

337: Bratři/Brothers (2023)

Archival Spaces 337 Bratři / Brothers (2023, Tomáš Mašín) Uploaded 15 December 2023 Ambassador Jaroslav Olša and the Czech Consulate in Los Angeles recently invited guests to a special screening of the Czech entry to the Academy Awards,  Bratři / Brothers (2023, Tomáš Mašín), at the  Crescent Theater in Beverly Hills with the director inContinue reading “337: Bratři/Brothers (2023)”

336: Danger… Music!

Archival Spaces 336 Danger Music… Between Film Comedy and Musical Uploaded 8 December 2023 Over Thanksgiving weekend the Hamburg Cinegraph group invited scholars to the 36th International Film Historical Congress, “Danger Music… Between Film Comedy and Music,” which accompanied the “20th International Festival of German Film Patrimony,” held in Hamburg’s storied Metropolis cinema between 17Continue reading “336: Danger… Music!”