Archival Spaces 359 Giornate del cinema muto/online Uploaded 1 November 2024 This year’s Giornate del cinema muto again offered a small selection of ten feature films from the festival, as well as selected shorts, mostly little or never seen films from countries as diverse as France, Uzbekistan, Cuba, Germany, Mexico, and the USA. The filmsContinue reading “359: Pordenone Silent Films”
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323: Hugo Haas
Archival Spaces 323 Hugo Haas Exhibition Uploaded 9 June 2023 A new small but informative exhibition on the Czech-American actor-director, Hugo Haas, opened on 25 May in the waiting room of the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles. While several recent Consul Generals have been active in promoting Czech Film Culture –Continue reading “323: Hugo Haas”
243: Hugo Haas’ The White Sickness
Archival Spaces 243 Hugo Haas’ The White Sickness (1937) restored; a Plague Allegory Uploaded 22 May 2020 Thanks to my archivist colleague and friend, Adrian Wood, I learned that the Národní filmový archive in Prague has restored Bílá nemoc (1937) from the original nitrate negative (the sound came from a nitrate print) and made it available online on theirContinue reading “243: Hugo Haas’ The White Sickness”
234: Ivan Passer (1933-2010)
Archival Spaces 234 Uploaded 10 January 2020 Ivan Passer (1933-2020) The Czech New Wave writer and director and later émigré to Hollywood, Ivan Passer, died yesterday at the age of 86 years in Reno, Nevada. Many Czechs consider his one and only feature film in Czechoslovakia, Intimate Lighting (1965) to be the best film to come fromContinue reading “234: Ivan Passer (1933-2010)”
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