Archival Spaces 388: Riefenstahl (2024) – The Movie Uploaded 12 December 2025 The penultimate scene in Andres Veiel’s new documentary, Riefenstahl (2024), which opened recently in Los Angeles, shows footage that producer Sandra Maischberger possibly shot in ca. 2002, when Leni Riefenstahl was over 100 years old. In close-up, the Nazi diva frets fussily inContinue reading “388: Riefenstahl”
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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”
379: Karel Čapek
Archival Spaces 379: Photography by Karel Čapek Uploaded 8 August 2025 The name Karel Čapek (1890-1938) is familiar to American science fiction readers and certainly specialists in Slavic literature, but probably not many others. In the Czech Republic, however, Čapek is revered as one of the greatest authors of the first half of the 20thContinue reading “379: Karel Čapek”
376: Spielberg Film Archive
Archival Spaces 376: Martina Weisz Named Director, Steven Spielberg Film Archive Uploaded 27 June 2025 I first made contact in 1982 with the Steven Spielberg Film Archive in Jerusalem, when I was researching films for my exhibition, “Helmar Lerski: Photographs and Films,” at the Folkwang Museum, Essen, then in Tel Aviv, Munich, Frankfurt, and SanContinue reading “376: Spielberg Film Archive”
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