Archival Spaces 370: Hobart Bosworth Films on Blu-Ray Uploaded 4 April 2025 Unless you are a silent film aficionado, you probably may not have heard of Hobart Bosworth. He was already in his 40s when he started his film career at Selig-Polyscope, starring in The Count of Monte Cristo (1908), after battling tuberculosis for almostContinue reading “370: Hobart Bosworth”
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368: 75th Berlinale (Retrospective)
Archival Spaces 368 Retro: German Genre Films from the 1970s 7 March 2025 Hard to believe that it was 51 years ago that I attended my first Berlinale film screening. I actually wasn’t in town that Summer of 1974 for the Festival but rather to research my master’s thesis (Ernst Lubitsch) at the Deutsche Kinemathek,Continue reading “368: 75th Berlinale (Retrospective)”
367: Santa’s Restoration
Archival Spaces 367 The First Mexican Sound Film Restored Uploaded 21 February 2025 Considered Mexico’s first “national” production in the sound film era, Santa (1932) was based on the eponymous Mexican novel (1903) by Federico Gamboa, which is as much a modernist portrait of Mexico City, as it is of the fate of its heroine.Continue reading “367: Santa’s Restoration”
365: Nicholas Baer’s Historical Turns
Archival Spaces 365: Nicholas Baer: Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism (2024) Uploaded 24 January 2025 Nicholas Baer’s now-published dissertation, Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2024), attempts to read five canonical German films from the Weimar Republic in the light of theContinue reading “365: Nicholas Baer’s Historical Turns”
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