Lotte Eisner: Writer, Archivist, Curator : an interview with Julia Eisner by Fernando Chaves Espinach
That Lotte Eisner (1896-1983) has a place in film history is no surprise, but over the years it has become increasingly difficult to define exactly that what might mean. Mostly remembered as a mentor and champion of the New German Cinema, and known to film scholars for her influential study of German cinema of the 1920s, The Haunted Screen (1952/1969) and further books on F.W. Murnau and Fritz Lang, the longtime archivist of the Cinémathèque française lived through the rise…
