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!”

335: Alfred Zeisler

Archival Spaces 335 Alfred Zeisler Uploaded 24 November 2023 I first interviewed Alfred Zeisler in April 1983, when he attended a Berlinale Retrospective; I was in the final throws of writing my dissertation which included a chapter on Zeisler’s biopic of Dr. Joseph Paul Goebbels, Enemy of Women (1944). Zeisler had been a powerful producerContinue reading “335: Alfred Zeisler”