Archival Spaces 403: Weimar Germany’s Most Popular Unknown Film Star Uploaded 10 July 2026 Despite having starred in ca. 70 films, despite having been one of the most popular actresses in Weimar Germany, and despite operating her own production company throughout the 1920s and early 1930s, Ellen Richter is invisible in the canons of classicContinue reading “403: Ellen Richter”
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402: F is For Fake
Archival Spaces 402: Film Preservation Hoaxes Uploaded 12 June 2026 Recently, a story circulated on the net that a film archivist at the Carnegie Library in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Rebecca Lang, had found an unlabeled film canister in the basement, which turned out to be a previously unknown silent film from 1923 with Buster Keaton.Continue reading “402: F is For Fake”
397: German Film Exile in Argentina
Archival Spaces 397: Eternal Mask’s Art Director Uploaded 17 April 2026 I have been catching up on the films of Werner Hochbaum on YouTube, a filmmaker best known for his leftist feature, Brothers (1929), about a dock strike in Hamburg. Politically in danger after 1933, Hochbaum moved to Austria, where he directed several films, includingContinue reading “397: German Film Exile in Argentina”
395: Far From the Revolution
Archival Spaces 395 White Russians in Hollywood Uploaded 20 March 2026 A still photograph from Joseph von Sternberg’s The Last Command (1928) perfectly captures the mixture of reality and fantasy, of historical truth and aesthetic expression that is so much a part of Hollywood cinema and its White Russian colony: Standing in a World WarContinue reading “395: Far From the Revolution”
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