Archival Spaces 363 Mitchell and Kenyon Discovery in Dispute Uploaded 27 December 2024 I can’t quite remember when I first saw the Mitchell and Kenyon films but Andrea Leigh tells me it was at the AMIA Conference in 2001 when the British Film Institute first began circulating 35mm prints of their restorations. I was trulyContinue reading “363: M&K Controversy”
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362: Ufa Musicals 2
Archival Spaces 362 Kurt Gerron’s Ein toller Einfall (1932) Uploaded 13 December 2024 Back in June, I wrote about the UFA film operettas of the early 1930s, noting that many resisted the move to classical Hollywood narrative, displaying instead a high degree of self-reflexivity, employing direct address, featuring both song and dance, and emphasizing theContinue reading “362: Ufa Musicals 2”
361: Accidental Archivism
Archival Spaces 361 Accidental Archivism: Shaping Cinema’s Futures with Remnants of the Past Uploaded 29 November 2024 As anyone knows, who has been following the fortunes of AMIA (Association of Moving Images), film preservation before the 1980s was the purview of major, mostly state-funded, national film archives, which felt responsible mainly for fiction feature films.Continue reading “361: Accidental Archivism”
360: Euthanasia in Film
Archival Spaces 360 Ich klage an / I accuse (1941) Uploaded 15 November 2024 My German-born mother once confessed to me that she was in favor of mercy killing if someone was terminally ill because as a teenager in Cologne, she had seen Ich klage an (1941), Wolfgang Liebeneiner’s propagandistic endorsement of euthanasia, lavishly producedContinue reading “360: Euthanasia in Film”
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