Archival Spaces: 290 Julien Duvivier’s Films of Religiosity Uploaded 4 March 2022 Over the course of the years from 1927 to 1929, Julien Duvivier directed and wrote three films with overt religious subject matter, all of them very much personal projects, products of his Jesuit education: L’Agonie de Jerusalem/Revelation (1927), Le divine croisière/The Divine VoyageContinue reading “290: Julien Duvivier’s Films of Religiosity”
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289: Julien Duvivier Silents
Archival Spaces 289: Julien Duvivier Blu-Ray Box Set Uploaded 18 February 2022 For many years, Julien Duvivier was considered one of the greatest directors of the pre-World War II French cinema, celebrated not only by critics, but by the likes of Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Orson Welles, and Michael Powell. But the French New WaveContinue reading “289: Julien Duvivier Silents”
288: William Thiele in Hollywood
Archival Spaces 288: William Thiele’s Downward Slide in Hollywood Uploaded 4 February 2022 While my recent blog discussed the USC/Academy Museum’s symposium “Vienna in Hollywood,” here is an abridged version of my talk on the Austro-Jewish film director William Thiele, who will be the subject of a book I’m editing with Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert: Enchanted byContinue reading “288: William Thiele in Hollywood”
287: Susan Delson on Soundies
Archival Spaces 287: Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans Uploaded 21 January 2022 Several years ago in a piece on “Preserving Race Films” (2016, edited by Barbara Tepa Lupack) I noted that much African-American film history from the 1930s and 40s had only survived in 16mm copies, which were often treated by archivesContinue reading “287: Susan Delson on Soundies”
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