Archival Spaces 352 Meeting Leni Riefenstahl Uploaded 26 July 2024 In March 1976, Robert Doherty, the Director of George Eastman Museum asked me to travel to New York to meet with Leni Riefenstahl, the infamous film director of Triumph of the Will (1935) and Olympia, Parts I and II (1938). At the time, Riefenstahl hadContinue reading “352: Riefenstahl”
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350: Spanish Hollywood
Archival Spaces 350 Spanish-Language Cinema Hollywood, 1929-39 Uploaded 28 June 2024 Back in 2017, I organized a major Getty-funded exhibition, Recuerdos de un cine en español: Latin American Cinema in Los Angeles, 1930-1960,” with the help of my co-curators, Maria Elena de las Carreras, Colin Gunkel, and Alejandra Espasande-Bouza, which presented forty-one films from Hollywood,Continue reading “350: Spanish Hollywood”
349: German film operettas
Archival Spaces 349 UFA greets Lubitsch: Early Sound Film Operettas Uploaded 14 June 2024 In November 2023, I gave a keynote, titled “UFA greets Lubitsch,” at Cinegraph’s annual film historical symposium, “Danger! Music…Between Film Comedy and Musical.” My Archival Spaces 336 discussed their film program of Weimar German sound films, which included many discoveries ofContinue reading “349: German film operettas”
347: Bushman rediscovered
Archival Spaces 347 Bushman (1971/2023) rediscovered Uploaded 17 May 2024 Milestone and Kino Lorber are releasing a Blu-ray of a new restoration of Bushman (1971) on 21 May 2024, a film that was not exactly overlooked when it first screened – it was praised by critics – but it never found a distributor. Directed byContinue reading “347: Bushman rediscovered”
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