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”

271: Ozaphan 16mm

Archival Spaces 271   Ozaphan, 16mm on Cellophane Uploaded 11 June 2021 Ozaphan was a non-flammable safety film format marketed for home use in France and Germany from the late 1920s to the 1950s, which had the peculiarity that it neither used a conventional photographic emulsion, nor was its base di-acetate.  Rather, Ozaphan employed a systemContinue reading “271: Ozaphan 16mm”

270: Warner Bros. abandon DVDs?

Archival Spaces 270 Will Warner Brothers Abandon DVDs/blu-rays? Uploaded 28 May 2021 Several weeks ago, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites blew up with the news that AT & T’s Warner Media had announced that the WB would be abandoning the distribution of physical movie media, i.e., DVDs and Blu-rays, turning sales over toContinue reading “270: Warner Bros. abandon DVDs?”