This week I drove out to Pacific Palisades to the Villa Aurora, the German cultural center, to attend a screening of a new German television documentary, Alexander Granach (2012). I hadn’t been to the Villa since Margaret Kleinman took over the Directorship, having previously spent decades at the L.A.
Archival Spaces: Memory, Images, History
April 4, 2013 - 3:52 pm
March 21, 2013 - 11:31 am
Last week at the Syracuse Cinefest, which convenes annually in March, UCLA Film & Television Archive presented a work-in-progress restoration of Partners Again (1926), a silent comedy feature. This one was literally snatched from the grave, but I’ll get to that in a moment.
March 7, 2013 - 1:06 pm
On December 1, 2012, I celebrated my fifth anniversary as Director of UCLA Film & Television Archive. Frankly, I’m shocked at how quickly the time has flown by––and find that this anniversary provides a good opportunity to take stock of what has been accomplished so far.
December 17, 2012 - 11:18 am
I have been catching up on Netflix with some of Werner Herzog’s films made in the last ten years. Werner just celebrated his 70th birthday and unlike some of his compatriots from the German New Wave of the 1970s, he has not fallen by the wayside.
November 29, 2012 - 4:07 pm
Thanksgiving, 1981. I’m in Leipzig, Germany for the Leipzig International Documentary and Short Film Festival. At the time, I was a PhD. candidate at the University of Münster in the Federal Republic of Germany, which offered a fellowship and no tuition. But going to Leipzig in the winter on a train is a trip.
