Author: Patrick Holzapfel
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Notes from Forever Film: “The Half-Breed”
The weight of knives and more saved ladies in Allan Dwan’s “The Half-Breed” presented by the Cinémathèque française. […]
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Notes from Forever Fim: “Expedicion Giró”
Parachuting dogs and doubts about the versatility of the program. […]
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Notes from Forever Film: “Maria do Mar”
What a fitting metaphor for a retrospective about international archival work is a film about a woman being saved from drowning. “Maria do Mar” is more than that, much more. […]
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Notes from Forever Film: “Lime Kiln Club Field Day”
MoMa brought their archival assembly of “Lime Kiln Club Field Day” to the retrospective. White producers stopped the shooting of this film made by a pioneering cast of African-American performers led by the famed Caribbean-American entertainer Bert Williams. […]
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Notes from Forever Film: “Valkoinen peura”
“Valkoinen peura” (The White Reindeer) is a beautiful and haunting film made in white and black. The contributions of Kansallinen audiovisuaalinen instituutti ask important questions about ethics in relation to working with film. […]
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Notes from Forever Film: “Sånt händer inte här”
“The disadvantage of film is that it remains.“, wrote Ingmar Bergman. “Sånt händer inte här” is a film he was embarrassed about to a degree that made him prohibit screenings of it. In the year of his centenary the Swedish Film Institute brought this rarely seen film as a gift. […]
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Notes from Forever Film: “30 Years of Motion Pictures”
A definition of cinema as a means of capturing milestones in the progress of the world lies at the core of “30 Years of Motion Pictures,” the second compilation film of “Forever Film”. […]
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Notes from Forever Film: “White Shadows in the South Seas”
Bringing the legendary “White Shadows in the South Sea” directed by W.S. Van Dyke and Robert J. Flaherty (who left the project) as a gift, the George Eastman Museum not only chose a unique print for presentation but also one that talks about the inevitability and beauty of decay in… […]
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Notes from Forever Film: “Yadanabon”
Notes on one of the most special gifts for the retrospective: A 35mm copy of “Yadanabon,” a film from Myanmar in Burmese language with Czech subtitles presented by Národní filmový archiv. […]
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Notes from Forever Film: “Film and Reality”
Notes on “Film and Reality,” one of the first films produced by a film archive and a very early example of a compilation film. […]
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Notes from Forever Film: “Grauzone”
During our retrospective “Forever Film”, Patrick Holzapfel is going to publish notes to the screenings. His first entry deals with Fredi M. Murers fascinating “Grauzone.” […]
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Liebst du mich? Ein Gespräch mit Nicolas Wackerbarth zu “Casting” und Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Am 7. September zeigten wir im Rahmen unserer Rainer-Werner-Fassbinder-Retrospektive Nicolas Wackerbarths “Casting”. Ein Film, der in einen bewussten Dialog mit dem Erbe von Fassbinder tritt, in dem er ein Casting zu einer Adaption von “Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant” beleuchtet. Christoph Huber und Patrick Holzapfel haben sich mit… […]