Archival Spaces 364 Peter Lorre’s Mr. Moto Detective Series Uploaded 10 January 2025 When Adolf Hitler ascended to power on 30 January 1933, Peter Lorre knew he would be at the top of Joseph Goebbels’ enemies list, having been the star of Fritz Lang’s M (1931), a film that called for sympathy for a mentallyContinue reading “364: Mr. Moto”
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361: Accidental Archivism
Archival Spaces 361 Accidental Archivism: Shaping Cinema’s Futures with Remnants of the Past Uploaded 29 November 2024 As anyone knows, who has been following the fortunes of AMIA (Association of Moving Images), film preservation before the 1980s was the purview of major, mostly state-funded, national film archives, which felt responsible mainly for fiction feature films.Continue reading “361: Accidental Archivism”
350: Spanish Hollywood
Archival Spaces 350 Spanish-Language Cinema Hollywood, 1929-39 Uploaded 28 June 2024 Back in 2017, I organized a major Getty-funded exhibition, Recuerdos de un cine en español: Latin American Cinema in Los Angeles, 1930-1960,” with the help of my co-curators, Maria Elena de las Carreras, Colin Gunkel, and Alejandra Espasande-Bouza, which presented forty-one films from Hollywood,Continue reading “350: Spanish Hollywood”
348: Academy Museum’s Jewish Film Pioneers
Archival Spaces 348 Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital Uploaded 31 May 2024 Two weeks ago, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Academy Museum opened what most observers called their mea culpa exhibition on Hollywood’s Jewish Pioneers, “Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital,” which occupiesContinue reading “348: Academy Museum’s Jewish Film Pioneers”
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