Archival Spaces 342 Wolfgang Klaue (1935-2024) Uploaded 8 March 2024 Wolfgang Klaue, the former director of the Stattliches Filmarchiv der DDR (SFA) and, after German reunification, the founding director of the DEFA Stiftung, died on 16 February. He was a giant in the field of film preservation, winning a UNESCO Silver Medal in 1988, founding theContinue reading “342: R.I.P. Wolfgang Klaue”
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332: The Spanish Dancer (1923)
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)”
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”