Archival Spaces 275 Marriage in the Shadows (1947, Kurt Maetzig) Uploaded 6 August 2021 Although I have been studying German cinema for decades, I’m less familiar with films from the German Democratic Republic, simply because for a long time, it was just harder to see those films. The DEFA (Deutsche Film Aktiengesellschaft) was formed in 1946Continue reading “275: Marriage in the Shadows (1947)”
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274: Restoring Summer of Soul
Archival Spaces 274 Restoring Summer of Soul (… or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) Uploaded 23 July 2021 The Harlem Cultural Festival in the summer of 1969 has been called “the Black Woodstock.” Held over a period of six Sundays in what is now called Marcus Garvey Park at 125th Street in Harlem, the FestivalContinue reading “274: Restoring Summer of Soul”
273: John Auer’s Poverty Row
Archival Spaces 273 John H. Auer’s Beginnings as a Poverty Row Auteur Uploaded 9 July 2021 This week I recorded a DVD commentary for The Crime of Dr. Crespi (1934), directed by the Hungarian American director, John H. Auer, which will be released in a four-disc box set by Flicker Alley later this year. According to an appreciationContinue reading “273: John Auer’s Poverty Row”
272: Boschwitz The Passenger
Archival Spaces 272 Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz: The Passenger (1939/2020) Uploaded 25 June 2021 I recently finished reading Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz’s “lost” novel. Der Reisende, published for the first time in German in 2018, and recently republished in English in a new translation as The Passenger, eighty years after its first quickly forgotten appearance; it has been hailed by critics asContinue reading “272: Boschwitz The Passenger”
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