Archival Spaces 306 Andrew Sarris Uploaded 14 October 2022 It was fifty years ago that I first met Andrew Sarris as an undergraduate. A film critic for The Village Voice, Sarris was the first reviewer I read regularly after becoming interested in film, even getting a subscription to the weekly paper, which also published JonasContinue reading “306: Andrew Sarris”
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305: Invaders from Mars
Archival Spaces 305 Invaders from Mars (1953) restored Uploaded 30 September 2022 At the Cinecon Classic Film Festival in Los Angeles over Labor Day weekend, Scott MacQueen, the former head of film preservation at UCLA Film & Television Archive, presented his restoration of William Cameron Menzies’s Invaders from Mars (1953). MacQueen had previously introduced theContinue reading “305: Invaders from Mars”
304: Salka Viertel Biography
Archival Spaces 304 Donna Rifkind’s The Sun and Her Stars Uploaded 16 September 2022 I first read Salka Viertel’s autobiography, The Kindness of Strangers (1969/2019) in the late 1970s, as I was writing my first piece on German-Jewish refugees in Hollywood, “The Palm Trees Were Gently Swaying. German Refugees from Hitler in Hollywood” (1980). TheContinue reading “304: Salka Viertel Biography”
303: Three Minutes. A Lengthening (2022)
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)“
