Archival Spaces 409: Stummfilmtage Bonn 2026 Uploaded 2 October 2026 This is the final installment of my report on this year’s Silent Film Festival in Bonn, Germany. Thursday’s program (8/20/26) began with two religiously themed films, Béhula (1922) and L’Inferno (1911). The former is an exceedingly rare 1920s film from India, a country where probably 97%Continue reading “409: Bonn Silent Film Festival III”
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408: Bonn Silent Film Festival II
Archival Spaces 408: Summfilmtage Bonn 2026 Uploaded 18 September 2026 The Bonn Silent Film Festival’s online streaming program continued after its opening film, The Saga of Gosta Berling (See Archival Spaces 407) with Kid Boots (1926, Frank Tuttle), starring Eddie Cantor and Clara Bow. The film was digitally restored in 2021 from a 1926 workContinue reading “408: Bonn Silent Film Festival II”
400: Novels to Film
Archival Spaces 400: Frank Borzage’s Little Man, What Now? (1934) Uploaded 29 May 2026 I recently read Hans Fallada’s world bestseller, Kleiner Mann – was Nun? (Little Man, What Now?), published in June 1932, just months before Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. The version now available in paperback in German is 25% longer (100 pages)Continue reading “400: Novels to Film”
399: Degenerate Art, the Exhibition
Archival Spaces: Bonfires of the Humanities Uploaded: 15 May 2026 I’ve been combing through my papers before I send them on to the George Eastman Museum, and I stumbled across my review of Degenerate Art. The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany, curated by Stephanie Barron and exhibited in 1991 in Los Angeles, Chicago,Continue reading “399: Degenerate Art, the Exhibition”
