Archival Spaces 400: Frank Borzage’s Little Man, What Now? (1934) Uploaded 29 May 2026 I recently read Hans Fallada’s world bestseller, Kleiner Mann – was Nun? (Little Man, What Now?), published in June 1932, just months before Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. The version now available in paperback in German is 25% longer (100 pages)Continue reading “400: Novels to Film”
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397: German Film Exile in Argentina
Archival Spaces 397: Eternal Mask’s Art Director Uploaded 17 April 2026 I have been catching up on the films of Werner Hochbaum on YouTube, a filmmaker best known for his leftist feature, Brothers (1929), about a dock strike in Hamburg. Politically in danger after 1933, Hochbaum moved to Austria, where he directed several films, includingContinue reading “397: German Film Exile in Argentina”
394: 1960’s Avant-garde Film Program
Archival Spaces 394 Curating a 1960s Avant-Garde Program Uploaded 6 March 2026 For me, film archival work has always included curatorship through programming, making historical and therefore archival objects visible and accessible. While curator of the film department in what is now called the George Eastman Museum, I introduced this program at a “1960s photography”Continue reading “394: 1960’s Avant-garde Film Program”
393: Cinema Novo
Archival Spaces 393: The Reception of Cinema Novo in America Uploaded 20 February 2026 A year ago, on 14 February 2025, Carlos Diegues, one of the best-known directors of the Cinema Novo movement, died in Rio de Janeiro at the age of eighty-four. The young Brazilian film directors who, in the early 1960s, joined togetherContinue reading “393: Cinema Novo”
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