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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.
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.
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.
On October 26, 2012, the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) invited participants to the Linwood Dunn Theater at the Academy Film Archive for AMIA’s Digital Asset Symposium, a one-day affair that was well worth the time.
Most film historians today consider Konrad Wolf and Rainer Werner Fassbinder the two greatest German filmmakers in the latter half of the 20th Century.
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