Archival Spaces 285 Vienna in Hollywood Symposium Uploaded 24 December 2021 Two weeks ago I attended and was a speaker at the Symposium, “Vienna in Hollywood. The Influence and Impact of Austrians on the Hollywood Film Industry 1920s – 2020s.” The event was hosted by the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, USC Libraries, USC’sContinue reading “285: Vienna in Hollywood Symposium”
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273: John Auer’s Poverty Row
Archival Spaces 273 John H. Auer’s Beginnings as a Poverty Row Auteur Uploaded 9 July 2021 This week I recorded a DVD commentary for The Crime of Dr. Crespi (1934), directed by the Hungarian American director, John H. Auer, which will be released in a four-disc box set by Flicker Alley later this year. According to an appreciationContinue reading “273: John Auer’s Poverty Row”
269: 1970s Women Directors
Archival Spaces 269 Liberating Hollywood. Women Directors & the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema Uploaded 14 May 2021 The following review was originally written in October 2019 but remained unpublished. With a woman of color winning an Oscar for directing this year, this book remains hugely relevant. In October 2019, it was announced inContinue reading “269: 1970s Women Directors”
234: Ivan Passer (1933-2010)
Archival Spaces 234 Uploaded 10 January 2020 Ivan Passer (1933-2020) The Czech New Wave writer and director and later émigré to Hollywood, Ivan Passer, died yesterday at the age of 86 years in Reno, Nevada. Many Czechs consider his one and only feature film in Czechoslovakia, Intimate Lighting (1965) to be the best film to come fromContinue reading “234: Ivan Passer (1933-2010)”
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