Archival Spaces 371 Berlinale Retrospective II Uploaded 18 April 2025 Six weeks ago I posted my blog about the Berlinale Retrospective “Wild, Weird, Bloody. German Genre Films of the 70’s,” which included films from both East and West Germany: crime, horror, musicals, melodramas, not New German Cinema. I also noted that I missed a numberContinue reading “371: German Genre Films II”
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250: Volker Schlöndorff’s Baal
Archival Spaces 250 Volker Schlöndorff’s Baal (1970) Uploaded 28 August 2020 When I was a teenager, I was fascinated with Bertolt Brecht. I saw my first Brecht play, “The Rise and Fall of Arturo Ui” at the Ruhr Festspiele in 1965, which featured 20 foot high puppets. For my senior thesis in Betty Nichols’ English honors classContinue reading “250: Volker Schlöndorff’s Baal “