408:  Bonn Silent Film Festival II

Archival Spaces 408: Summfilmtage Bonn 2026 Uploaded 18 September 2026 The Bonn Silent Film Festival’s online streaming program continued after its opening film, The Saga of Gosta Berling (See Archival Spaces 407) with Kid Boots (1926, Frank Tuttle), starring Eddie Cantor and Clara Bow. The film was digitally restored in 2021 from a 1926 workContinue reading “408:  Bonn Silent Film Festival II”

407:  Bonn Silent Film Festival

Archival Spaces 407: The Saga of Gösta Berling (1924, Maurice Stiller) Uploaded 4 September 2026 This year’s Silent Film Festival in Bonn, Germany, was held between 13 and 22 August 2026. The open-air festival in Bonn included 14 features and six shorts. An abridged program was available for streaming here in Germany, but did notContinue reading “407:  Bonn Silent Film Festival”

406: Letty Lynton Restored

Archival Spaces 406: Letty Lyndon (1932) screened at American Legion Hollywood Uploaded 21 August 2026 On 25 July 2026, the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles and Hollywood Heritage presented a matinee screening of Clarence Brown’s Letty Lynton (1932), a film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, and Nils Asther, which had not been available forContinue reading “406: Letty Lynton Restored”

405: Voskovec & Werich 2

Archival Spaces 405: The World Belongs to Us (1937) Uploaded 7 August 2026 In my last blog, I discussed the films of the Czech comedy team, Jiří Voskovec & Jan Werich, available on a 4-disc-set, produced by the Czech National Film Archive, now apparently out of print. I wanted to spend more time discussing theContinue reading “405: Voskovec & Werich 2”