Archival Spaces 297 Nitrate Picture Show at George Eastman Museum Uploaded 10 June 2022 After a two-year hiatus, due to the COVID Pandemic, the 6th Nitrate Picture Show was held in Rochester, N.Y. between 2 – 5 June 2022 at George Eastman Museum. Organized by the GEM Film Department’s relatively new curator, Peter Bagrov, theContinue reading “297: Nitrate Film Fest”
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293: Austria on Hollywood’s Screens
Archival Spaces 293: Austria Made in Hollywood Uploaded 15 April 2022 Back in December, I reported on the Academy Film Museum Symposium “Vienna in Hollywood. The Influence and Impact of Austrians on the Hollywood Film Industry 1920s – 2020s.” Now, I have finally caught up with an excellent book that focuses less on Austrians inContinue reading “293: Austria on Hollywood’s Screens”
291: Missing Movies
Archival Spaces 291 The “Missing Movies” Manifesto Uploaded 18 March 2022 Recently, film director Nancy Savoca and screenwriting partner, Richard Guay realized that their 1993 film, Household Saints, could not be screened at Columbia University, because of copyright problems. Nancy eventually worked with her lawyer, Susan Bodine, and Ira Deutchman, the film’s original distributor, toContinue reading “291: Missing Movies”
288: William Thiele in Hollywood
Archival Spaces 288: William Thiele’s Downward Slide in Hollywood Uploaded 4 February 2022 While my recent blog discussed the USC/Academy Museum’s symposium “Vienna in Hollywood,” here is an abridged version of my talk on the Austro-Jewish film director William Thiele, who will be the subject of a book I’m editing with Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert: Enchanted byContinue reading “288: William Thiele in Hollywood”
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