Archival Spaces 262 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Uploaded 5 February 2021 On 1 November 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated 27 January as “International Holocaust Remembrance Day,” in order to commemorate the liberation by Soviet Russian forces of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau on 27 January 1945. According to the website of theContinue reading “262: International Holocaust Day”
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257: Cinefest Hamburg
Archival Spaces 257 Cinefest: Cinema, War and Tulips Downloaded 4 December 2020 The 17th International Festival of German Film Patrimony, sponsored by the Hamburg Cinegraph, screened online from 14 to 22 November: “Cinema, War and Tulips. German-Dutch Film Relations;” it was accompanied by a film historical conference (20-22 November). I’ll discuss the conference in my nextContinue reading “257: Cinefest Hamburg”
256: Hannah Arendt
Archival Spaces 256 Hannah Arendt – the Movie (2012) Downloaded 20 November 2020 There is a scene near the end of Margarete von Trotta’s masterful biopic, Hannah Arendt (2012), in which Prof. Arendt’s academic colleagues move away from her as she sits down in the faculty cafeteria, after in February 1962 she has published her controversial reportage, EichmannContinue reading “256: Hannah Arendt”
237: Hunters. Season 1
Archival Spaces 237 Hunters. Season 1 (2020, Amazon Prime) Uploaded 28 February 2020 I have to say that I was put off by the first episode of Hunters, Amazon Prime’s new television series, because the opening in which Under-Secretary Biff Simpson (a member of Jimmy Carter’s cabinet, we later learn) murders his whole family, some neighbors, and guestsContinue reading “237: Hunters. Season 1”
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