Archival Spaces 332 The Spanish Dancer (1923) on Blu-Ray Uploaded 13 October 2023 I first saw Herbert Brenon’s The Spanish Dancer (1923) in 1996 at the Giornate del Cinema Muto, when the Festival presented a mini-retrospective, “A Kiss for Herbert Brenon.” I had first discovered la Negri in her German films with Ernst Lubitsch, mostContinue reading “332: The Spanish Dancer (1923)”
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331: Budapest Classics Film Marathon
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”
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”
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