The Cinema of German Wartime Suffering
posted November 21, 2010
Posted to our site today: Framing German Wartime Suffering, a package about a controversial subject. There’s a feature article about recent studies of the experiences of German civilians during and after World War II, and an interview with Marc Silberman, the editor of a new collection of essays about films that relate to that subject.
Framing German Wartime Suffering
posted November 21, 2010
The more comfortable you are with the notion of retributive justice – and with its gory manifestations – the less bothered are you likely to be with what happened to German citizens in the closing phases of the Second World War. Some cultural and film commentators are revisiting those events, the way they continued to haunt individual and collective German memories, and how those traumas have found expression (often of an appallingly unreflective kind) in feature films.
An Interview with Marc Silberman
posted November 21, 2010
Marc Silberman, co-editor with Paul Cooke of Screening War: Perspectives on German Suffering (Camden House), talks about films on German wartime suffering and forgetting, and the archiving and availability of films on that subject. Thinking about German suffering was common just after the war, was it? Yes. Paul Cooke and I make clear in our
Sara Driver’s Film of a Paul Bowles Story Rediscovered
posted November 12, 2010
The New York Times reports today (November 12, 2010) the rediscovery in Tangiers of You Are Not I, Sara Driver’s 1980 film version of the Paul Bowles short story of the same title. The print, reports the Times’s Randy Kennedy, is of a film Driver based on a 1948 Bowles story about a young woman
AMIA Conference Coverage
posted November 6, 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010– The Philadelphia Enquirer‘s movie critic, Carrie Rickey, provides an entertaining and inviting overview of the annual meeting of the Association of Moving Image Archivists – held this year in Philadelphia in collaboration with the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, and now coming to a close. Rickey deftly captures some
Welcome to Moving Image Archive News
posted November 5, 2010
Film preservation, moving image archiving — whatever the most all-encompassing term du jour is — sometimes makes its way into wider public awareness. Martin Scorsese talked up The Film Foundation, which he created, at the most recent Oscar ceremony. (Not Oscar categories, yet: Best Rediscovery of a Forgotten Film and Best Critical Research on a
AMIA Tech Review Review
posted November 4, 2010
OK, this is not a review, but a strong suggestion that you check out the second installment of AMIA Tech Review, an Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) free online publication. Here is some of what’s covered: Tommy, The Who’s rock opera from 1975, was the predecessor to “modern multi-channel stereoscopic experience” and was the
Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage
posted November 4, 2010
The deadline is approaching for submissions of papers to the 3rd International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage, which will be held in conjunction with the IUI2011 Conference (2011 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces) in Palo Alto, Cal., February 13-16, 2011. The deadline is November 12, 2010, and accepted authors will be informed
Taking Stock of Cinema Treasures
posted November 4, 2010
All but about 17 movie fans in all of creation have had a favorite cinema – the one where they learned their love of the moving image, or the taste of their first love’s lips; the one that smelled of the sea and only half-blocked the rush of passing traffic; the one where they heard dropped Milk Duds roll from the back to the front of the house; the one where they sat, gobsmacked, at the rippling pecs of George Lazenby, or at the undress of Ursula Andress – in her breakout Dr. No (1962), or perhaps later, in Mountain of the Cannibal God (1978).
Update: American Indian Film Gallery
posted November 4, 2010
The American Indian Film Gallery, a project of MacDonald & Associates (featured earlier in Moving Image Archive News), has to date placed online some 290 vintage films about Native American life from the Arctic to Cape Horn. The films can be viewed and downloaded free of charge. They present aspects of the life of 102