Archival Spaces 364 Peter Lorre’s Mr. Moto Detective Series Uploaded 10 January 2025 When Adolf Hitler ascended to power on 30 January 1933, Peter Lorre knew he would be at the top of Joseph Goebbels’ enemies list, having been the star of Fritz Lang’s M (1931), a film that called for sympathy for a mentallyContinue reading “364: Mr. Moto”
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358: Robert Rosen, R.I.P.
Archival Spaces 358 Robert Rosen (1940-2024) Uploaded 18 October 2024 Robert Rosen, the former Dean of UCLA’s School of Theatre Film and Television(TFT), and Director of UCLA Film & Television Archive (FTVA), passed away on 2 October in Los Angeles. I owed a huge debt of gratitude to Bob, who hired me as Director ofContinue reading “358: Robert Rosen, R.I.P.”
356 Bonn Silent Film Fest
Archival Spaces 356 Bonn Silent Film Festival Uploaded 20 September 2024 The 40th iteration of the Bonn International Silent Film Festival took place from 8 – 18 August 2024. Over eleven Summer evenings, the open-air festival screened twenty-two silent features and shorts from eleven countries, always accompanied by live musical performances. As in the pastContinue reading “356 Bonn Silent Film Fest”
352: Riefenstahl
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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