Archival Spaces 249 The Last Days of Louise Brooks Uploaded 15 August 2020 Louise Brooks died 35 years ago this week on 8 August 1985. I met Louise Brooks for the first time in 1975, long after her Hollywood career had ended, when she was living on N. Goodman Street in Rochester, N.Y., around the blockContinue reading “249: Louise Brooks”
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248: Kevon Brownlow’s It Happened Here
Archival Spaces 248 Kevin Brownlow’s It Happened Here (1964) Downloaded 31 July 2020 I can’t believe it has taken me nearly fifty years to catch up with Kevin Brownlow’s first feature film, It Happened Here, which had its UK premiere at the London Film Festival on 1 November 1964. I first became aware of the film sometime in lateContinue reading “248: Kevon Brownlow’s It Happened Here”
247: Cinemateca Brasileira in Crisis
Archival Spaces 247 Cinemateca Brasileira in Crisis Downloaded 17 July 2020 Earlier this year in an article in The Journal of Film Preservation (No. 102, 2020), I noted the following: “While archives and libraries are perceived by the general population to be bastions of stability, their existence and mandate to conserve and preserve consciously welded together, theContinue reading “247: Cinemateca Brasileira in Crisis”
246: Fall of France, June 1940
Archival Spaces 246 Lion Feuchtwanger and the Fall of France, June 1940 Downloaded 3 July 2020 Eighty years ago, the German Wehrmacht began its invasion of France and Benelux (10 May 1940), surrounding British and French forces at Dunkirk, and occupying Paris on 14 June. It was a staggering defeat for the French, whose militaryContinue reading “246: Fall of France, June 1940”
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