Archival Spaces 303 Three Minutes. A Lengthening (2022) Uploaded 2 September 2022 In the Summer of 1990, after the fall of Communism, I visited Poland for the first time, training docents for a United States Information Agency exhibit on American cinema in Katowice. On a free day, I asked my driver to take me toContinue reading “303: Three Minutes. A Lengthening (2022)“
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302: Summer of ’62
Archival Spaces 302 Summer of ‘62 Uploaded 19 August 2022 Heinz Erhardt was an extremely popular comedian in 1950s cinema of the German Federal Republic. I have been watching some of his films on YouTube because I’m writing about William Thiele’s penultimate feature film, The Last Pedestrian (1960) for a Thiele book I’m editing withContinue reading “302: Summer of ’62”
301: Restoring HYPOCRITES (1915)
Archival Spaces 301 Lois Weber’s Hypocrites Restored Uploaded 5 August 2022 Several weeks ago, Phil Carli premiered his new Silent Cinema Salon (https://philipcarli.com/), presenting a new restoration of Lois Weber’s Hypocrites (1915, Lois Weber) in his Rochester living room with live piano accompaniment. Carli is, of course, very well-known in the United States and abroadContinue reading “301: Restoring HYPOCRITES (1915)”
300: Film Scholarship Without Films?
Archival Spaces 300 Tel Aviv Symposium: A Film Scholarship Without Films? Uploaded 21 July 2022 Back in the early 1980s, my colleague and friend, Ute Eskildsen, and I organized an exhibition and published a catalog on Helmar Lerski, the New Realist photographer in Weimar Germany and a pioneering filmmaker in Jewish Palestine. Out of thatContinue reading “300: Film Scholarship Without Films?”
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