Archival Spaces 403: Weimar Germany’s Most Popular Unknown Film Star Uploaded 10 July 2026 Despite having starred in ca. 70 films, despite having been one of the most popular actresses in Weimar Germany, and despite operating her own production company throughout the 1920s and early 1930s, Ellen Richter is invisible in the canons of classicContinue reading “403: Ellen Richter”
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401: FIAF Prize to Ouagadougou
Archival Spaces 401: Ardiouma Soma Accepts Award Uploaded 26 June 2026 In April, at the 2026 FIAF Conference in Rabat, Morocco, Ardiouma Soma, the retired festival director of the Festival Panafricain du Cinéma et de la Télévision de Ouagadougou (FESPACO) and a representative of the Cinémathèque Africaine de Ouagadougou (CAO), received the prestigious FIAF AwardContinue reading “401: FIAF Prize to Ouagadougou”
402: F is For Fake
Archival Spaces 402: Film Preservation Hoaxes Uploaded 12 June 2026 Recently, a story circulated on the net that a film archivist at the Carnegie Library in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Rebecca Lang, had found an unlabeled film canister in the basement, which turned out to be a previously unknown silent film from 1923 with Buster Keaton.Continue reading “402: F is For Fake”
392: Czech Silent Cinema
Archival Spaces 392 Czech Silent Film History Uploaded 6 February 2026 Back in Summer 2023 (Blog 326), I wrote about a Czech film playing at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, The Organist at St. Vitus Cathedral (1929), directed by Jan S. Kolár. It is an amazingly atmospheric melodrama, shot mostly in real locations aroundContinue reading “392: Czech Silent Cinema”
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