Archival Spaces 338 The Kawakita Diaries 1932 Uploaded 15 January 2024 In April 1993, I was invited by my colleague (and now long-time friend), Hisashi Okajima of the Film Center at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, to give the opening lecture for their three-month film program, “American Films – The Little Known.”Continue reading “338: The Kawakita Diaries”
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336: Danger… Music!
Archival Spaces 336 Danger Music… Between Film Comedy and Musical Uploaded 8 December 2023 Over Thanksgiving weekend the Hamburg Cinegraph group invited scholars to the 36th International Film Historical Congress, “Danger Music… Between Film Comedy and Music,” which accompanied the “20th International Festival of German Film Patrimony,” held in Hamburg’s storied Metropolis cinema between 17Continue reading “336: Danger… Music!”
335: Alfred Zeisler
Archival Spaces 335 Alfred Zeisler Uploaded 24 November 2023 I first interviewed Alfred Zeisler in April 1983, when he attended a Berlinale Retrospective; I was in the final throws of writing my dissertation which included a chapter on Zeisler’s biopic of Dr. Joseph Paul Goebbels, Enemy of Women (1944). Zeisler had been a powerful producerContinue reading “335: Alfred Zeisler”
328: Bonn Silent Film Fest
Archival Spaces 328 Bonn Silent Film Festival Uploaded 18 August 2023 I first wrote about the Bonn Summer Cinema – International Silent Film Festival two years ago. This week I’ve again been able to view films at the Festival for this 39th iteration from 10 – 20 August 2023. As in the past several yearsContinue reading “328: Bonn Silent Film Fest”
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