Archival Spaces 369: The World Will Tremble (2024) Uploaded 21 March 2025 A Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival screening of The World Will Tremble (2025) preceded its L.A. run this week at the Laemmle Theatres in Beverly Hills and Encino. The title is a quote from a village Rabbi in Rzuchow, Poland who has justContinue reading “369: Chełmno Holocaust Film”
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358: Robert Rosen, R.I.P.
Archival Spaces 358 Robert Rosen (1940-2024) Uploaded 18 October 2024 Robert Rosen, the former Dean of UCLA’s School of Theatre Film and Television(TFT), and Director of UCLA Film & Television Archive (FTVA), passed away on 2 October in Los Angeles. I owed a huge debt of gratitude to Bob, who hired me as Director ofContinue reading “358: Robert Rosen, R.I.P.”
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”
353: Anti-Nazi Western
Archival Spaces 353 John Wayne’s Anti-Nazi Western Uploaded 9 August 2024 When I wrote my dissertation on anti-Nazi films made in Hollywood by German Jewish Refugees, I included chapters on the depiction of the Fifth Column, life in Nazi Germany, and the anti-Nazi resistance in occupied Europe. I mentioned that the topic of anti-Nazi refugeesContinue reading “353: Anti-Nazi Western”
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