Archival Spaces 331 Budapest Classics Film Marathon Uploaded 29 September 2023 The 6th iteration of the Budapest Classics Film Marathon happened from 12 – 17 September with an eclectic mix of restored films, 48 of them to be exact. The Festival this year featured a focus on Hungarian filmmakers abroad, Alexander Korda, Emeric Pressburger, andContinue reading “331: Budapest Classics Film Marathon”
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330: Foolish Wives
Archival Spaces 330 Flicker Alley’s Foolish Wives (1922) Uploaded 15 September 2023 I met Arthur Lennig several times in the mid-1970s to late 1980s, mostly at IAMHIST (International Association of Audio-Media and History) Conferences, where he talked about his work on Stroheim and Griffith. He was really quite passionate about his research, that energy resultingContinue reading “330: Foolish Wives”
327: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Archival Spaces 327 A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream (1925) restored Uploaded 4 August 2023 One of the films I was most looking forward to at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival was the world premiere of the previously lost German film, A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream (1925) because I had as Director of UCLA Film & TelevisionContinue reading “327: A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
326: San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Archival Spaces 326 San Francisco Silent Film Festival Uploaded 21 July 2023 The San Francisco Silent Film Festival opened on the evening of 12 July with a screening of Douglas Fairbanks’s The Iron Mask (1929) at the Castro Theatre. This year’s program over four full days offered a mix of American melodramas and comedies, asContinue reading “326: San Francisco Silent Film Festival”