Archival Spaces 374: Hanns Heinz Ewers Novel, Alraune (1911) Uploaded 30 May 2025 A couple of months ago, I recorded a Blu-ray commentary for the 1927 German horror film, Alraune, directed by Henryk Galeen, and distributed in America as Daughter of Destiny. The Blu-ray will be released by Deaf Crocodile around Halloween. The script byContinue reading “374: Alraune”
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373: IMAX à la 1900
Archival Spaces 373: American Biograph Co. 68mm Films Added to UNESCO Register Uploaded 16 May 2025 A month ago, the British Film Institute, London, and Holland’s Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, announced in a joint press release that their unique collection of 300 68mm films from the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company had been added to UNESCO’s International MemoryContinue reading “373: IMAX à la 1900”
371: German Genre Films II
Archival Spaces 371 Berlinale Retrospective II Uploaded 18 April 2025 Six weeks ago I posted my blog about the Berlinale Retrospective “Wild, Weird, Bloody. German Genre Films of the 70’s,” which included films from both East and West Germany: crime, horror, musicals, melodramas, not New German Cinema. I also noted that I missed a numberContinue reading “371: German Genre Films II”
370: Hobart Bosworth
Archival Spaces 370: Hobart Bosworth Films on Blu-Ray Uploaded 4 April 2025 Unless you are a silent film aficionado, you probably may not have heard of Hobart Bosworth. He was already in his 40s when he started his film career at Selig-Polyscope, starring in The Count of Monte Cristo (1908), after battling tuberculosis for almostContinue reading “370: Hobart Bosworth”
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