Archival Spaces 358 Babylon Berlin, Season 4 (2024) Uploaded 4 October 2024 After Netflix canceled the excellent German TV series Babylon Berlin, at the end of Season 3, I purchased a DVD of Season 4. In the meantime, it has actually become available on MHz Choice, but dubbed into English (as are the previous 3Continue reading “357: Babylon Berlin, Season 4”
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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”
355: Charles Puffy
Archival Spaces 355 Puffy’s Tragic End Uploaded 6 September 2024 Whenever they needed a fat man, Károly Huszár at 290 lbs. was there. Starting his film career with Michael Curtiz in Hungary in 1913, the comedian moved to Germany in 1920, before becoming a star of short comedies for Universal in 1924, as well asContinue reading “355: Charles Puffy”
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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