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”
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346: G.W. Pabst redux
Arrchival Spaces 346 G.W. Pabst rewritten: Daniel Kehlmann’s novel, Lichtspiel Uploaded 3 May 2024 Film historians consider G.W. Pabst one of the three most accomplished German film directors of the first half of the 20th century. One of my first grad student papers concerned G.W. Pabst’s Three Penny Opera (1931), written for George Bluestone’s seminarContinue reading “346: G.W. Pabst redux”
314: Holocaust Remembrance Day
Archival Spaces 314 Schächten (2022) Uploaded 3 February 2023 Marking Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 January), the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival under Hilary Helstein, in cooperation with the German and Austrian Consulates, mounted the L.A. premiere of a new Holocaust-themed film, Schächten (2022), which deals not so much with the Holocaust, but with its utterlyContinue reading “314: Holocaust Remembrance Day”
313: Irmgard Keun
Archival Spaces 313 Irmgard Keun: Child of all Nations Uploaded 20 January 2023 A couple of weeks ago, my colleague, Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert, announced on Facebook that a previously lost German film from the early 1930s, Eine von uns (1932), starring Brigitte Helm, had turned up on YouTube. The film was an adaption of the sensational,Continue reading “313: Irmgard Keun”
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