Archival Spaces 387: Otto Krieg’s German Film in the Mirror of the Ufa Uploaded 28 November 2025 By 1943, the Ufa was not only the largest German film company, as it had been in the Weimar Republic, but the only German film company, nationalized and under direct control of Joseph Goebbels’ Nazi Propaganda Ministry. InContinue reading “387: Nazi Film History II”
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384: Friedrich P. Kahlenberg
Archival Spaces 384: Remembering Bundesarchiv President Friedrich P. Kahlenberg Uploaded 17 October 2025 Prof. Dr. Friedrich P. Kahlenberg would have celebrated his 90th birthday in twelve days. Born on 29 October 1935 in Mainz, where the Main and Rhine Rivers run together, Kahlenberg was one of my most important mentors, the person responsible more thanContinue reading “384: Friedrich P. Kahlenberg”
383: Weimar Comedies
Archival Spaces 383: Four German Comedies (1931-32) Blu-Ray Uploaded 3 October 2025 Flicker Alley has released a two-disc blu-ray set, “Champagne & Caviar: Four Weimar Comedies (1931-1932),” which for all the many merits of the presentation, is somewhat of a misnomer. Produced during the depths of the world-wide Depression, these are not frothy Hollywood comediesContinue reading “383: Weimar Comedies”
382: Abraham Ravett
382: Abraham Ravett Archival Spaces 382: Abraham Ravett Films in Berlin Uploaded 19 September 2025 I’ve known independent filmmaker Abraham Ravett for 35 years. We met when he came to Rochester in 1990 to screen his late Hampshire College colleague, Tom Joslin’s Blackstar: Autobiography of a Close Friend (1976), one of the first films about everydayContinue reading “382: Abraham Ravett”
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