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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369: Chełmno Holocaust Film
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”
362: Ufa Musicals 2
Archival Spaces 362 Kurt Gerron’s Ein toller Einfall (1932) Uploaded 13 December 2024 Back in June, I wrote about the UFA film operettas of the early 1930s, noting that many resisted the move to classical Hollywood narrative, displaying instead a high degree of self-reflexivity, employing direct address, featuring both song and dance, and emphasizing theContinue reading “362: Ufa Musicals 2”
360: Euthanasia in Film
Archival Spaces 360 Ich klage an / I accuse (1941) Uploaded 15 November 2024 My German-born mother once confessed to me that she was in favor of mercy killing if someone was terminally ill because as a teenager in Cologne, she had seen Ich klage an (1941), Wolfgang Liebeneiner’s propagandistic endorsement of euthanasia, lavishly producedContinue reading “360: Euthanasia in Film”
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