Archival Spaces 383: Four German Comedies (1931-32) Blu-Ray Uploaded 3 October 2025 Flicker Alley has released a two-disc blu-ray set, “Champagne & Caviar: Four Weimar Comedies (1931-1932),” which for all the many merits of the presentation, is somewhat of a misnomer. Produced during the depths of the world-wide Depression, these are not frothy Hollywood comediesContinue reading “383: Weimar Comedies”
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332: The Spanish Dancer (1923)
Archival Spaces 332 The Spanish Dancer (1923) on Blu-Ray Uploaded 13 October 2023 I first saw Herbert Brenon’s The Spanish Dancer (1923) in 1996 at the Giornate del Cinema Muto, when the Festival presented a mini-retrospective, “A Kiss for Herbert Brenon.” I had first discovered la Negri in her German films with Ernst Lubitsch, mostContinue reading “332: The Spanish Dancer (1923)”