Archival Spaces 373: American Biograph Co. 68mm Films Added to UNESCO Register Uploaded 16 May 2025 A month ago, the British Film Institute, London, and Holland’s Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, announced in a joint press release that their unique collection of 300 68mm films from the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company had been added to UNESCO’s International MemoryContinue reading “373: IMAX à la 1900”
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371: German Genre Films II
Archival Spaces 371 Berlinale Retrospective II Uploaded 18 April 2025 Six weeks ago I posted my blog about the Berlinale Retrospective “Wild, Weird, Bloody. German Genre Films of the 70’s,” which included films from both East and West Germany: crime, horror, musicals, melodramas, not New German Cinema. I also noted that I missed a numberContinue reading “371: German Genre Films II”
370: Hobart Bosworth
Archival Spaces 370: Hobart Bosworth Films on Blu-Ray Uploaded 4 April 2025 Unless you are a silent film aficionado, you probably may not have heard of Hobart Bosworth. He was already in his 40s when he started his film career at Selig-Polyscope, starring in The Count of Monte Cristo (1908), after battling tuberculosis for almostContinue reading “370: Hobart Bosworth”
367: Santa’s Restoration
Archival Spaces 367 The First Mexican Sound Film Restored Uploaded 21 February 2025 Considered Mexico’s first “national” production in the sound film era, Santa (1932) was based on the eponymous Mexican novel (1903) by Federico Gamboa, which is as much a modernist portrait of Mexico City, as it is of the fate of its heroine.Continue reading “367: Santa’s Restoration”