Archival Spaces 362 Kurt Gerron’s Ein toller Einfall (1932) Uploaded 13 December 2024 Back in June, I wrote about the UFA film operettas of the early 1930s, noting that many resisted the move to classical Hollywood narrative, displaying instead a high degree of self-reflexivity, employing direct address, featuring both song and dance, and emphasizing theContinue reading “362: Ufa Musicals 2”
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360: Euthanasia in Film
Archival Spaces 360 Ich klage an / I accuse (1941) Uploaded 15 November 2024 My German-born mother once confessed to me that she was in favor of mercy killing if someone was terminally ill because as a teenager in Cologne, she had seen Ich klage an (1941), Wolfgang Liebeneiner’s propagandistic endorsement of euthanasia, lavishly producedContinue reading “360: Euthanasia in Film”
359: Pordenone Silent Films
Archival Spaces 359 Giornate del cinema muto/online Uploaded 1 November 2024 This year’s Giornate del cinema muto again offered a small selection of ten feature films from the festival, as well as selected shorts, mostly little or never seen films from countries as diverse as France, Uzbekistan, Cuba, Germany, Mexico, and the USA. The filmsContinue reading “359: Pordenone Silent Films”
357: Babylon Berlin, Season 4
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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