Category: At the Film Museum
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Filmemacherinnen im Filmmuseum – eine Liste
Eine Liste der Filmemacherinnen, die wir im Österreichischen Filmmuseum bis heute gezeigt haben. Es ist uns wichtig die Arbeit von Frauen im Kino – übers Kino – fürs Kino – noch stärker sichtbar zu machen. […]
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Astrologen, Träumer & Verliebte – Einige (Gegen-)Gedanken zu Johann Lurfs ★
Einige Überlegungen zu Johann Lurfs ★ und dem fehlenden Gegenschuss im Film. […]
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The Mandarin – A Zeitgeist
“Der Mandarin” was released in at least six of Vienna’s inner city cinemas simultaneously, with multiple screenings a day, adding up to approximately 2600 seats. Most advertisements focused on the film’s cast. […]
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Eye to Eye with Eve Heller
Eve Heller studied under Brakhage and talks about her experience with him somewhere between admiration, inspiration and necessary emancipation. […]
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Eye to Eye with Lizzie Borden
During our retrospective Christoph Huber sat down with Lizzie Borden in our offices. He asked about her approach and her films and we are very happy to share this conversation with you. […]
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The Means of Imagining: Quotes from “The Magic Lantern“ by Ingmar Bergman
Some quotes from “The Magic Lantern” by Ingmar Bergman. About dreams, nightmares, memories and cinema. Our current retrospective runs until February 8, 2018. […]
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Discovery Never Ends: A Talk with Naum Kleiman and Artiom Sopin
On the day the joint retrospective of the Austrian Film Museum and the Viennale started Patrick Holzapfel sat down with curators Naum Kleiman and Artiom Sopin to discuss their curatorial approach and some highlights of the retrospective. […]
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The Siodmak Variations
Famous for his great film noir work in Hollywood, Robert Siodmak may be the most intriguing of the many exile filmmakers who fled from the Nazi regime and established a career in the US. Our recent Weimar retrospective showcased some examples of his astonishing early work in Germany–one official classic,… […]
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Walsh – Godard – Parrish – Rossen – Walsh
As our Godard retrospective opens, it’s time to consider the fact–Godard would surely agree–that everyone is (or should be) indebted to Raoul Walsh. […]
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Potemkin Reborn (with Sound)
Over a decade in the making, the German synchronized sound version of “Battleship Potemkin” shows at the Film Museum. With composer Edmund Meisel’s truly striking score wedded to the images, this “Viennese Version” is an entirely new experience. […]
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Spoiler Alert
Or how we discovered another ending of Dino Risis’s “Il segno di Venere” (The Sign of Venus, 1955), starring Sophia Loren and Vittorio De Sica. […]
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The Wrong Man: How I Rediscovered De Sica
A popular and brilliant actor, Vittorio De Sica proved himself an outstanding director as well. Unfortunately, his reputation as a filmmaker is defined almost exclusively via his famous neorealist classics. Big mistake. A note on the dynamics on film history. […]