Writing about my great aunt Lotte Eisner (got my PhD) also a viola player & string quartet enthusiast
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In Eisner news - another Doctor in the family. Passed my viva - 'Lotte H Eisner: writer, collector and archivist' is officially in the bag. Ridiculously thrilled @KingsDLLC @cinemathequefr @de_kinemathek @EisnerHarriet @DavidAEisner @WFTV_UK @WFPProject @wienerlibrary
Thank you for a brilliant concert tonight by the fabulous @DanishQuartet. As ever raising the roof at the Wigmore Hall with an incredible second half of new folk stuff. Looking forward to it being published!
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In 1962 Lotte Eisner was asked by @SightSoundmag for her ten best films. She sent her list with a note saying “I do not believe in your formula of ten best films” @BFI
Lotte Eisner #BOTD Here she is on the run from the Nazis in France during WW2 living as Louise Escoffier in hiding for 4 years. Very proud to come from a family of German Jewish refugees. Happy Birthday to my fab great aunt @cinemathequefr @de_kinemathek @kingsgerman @WFPProject
Fabulous playing and brilliantly eclectic programme this evening from the wonderful Danish String Quartet @DanishQuartet @wigmore_hall
Many thanks to @ChristineErinWL and the @wienerlibrary for hosting my talk this afternoon and giving me the opportunity to discuss and illustrate Lotte’s overlooked collecting and curating
A fascinating (I would say that) dossier on Lotte Eisner out today in Screen academic.oup.com/screen/issu…. Featuring Erica Carter, Michael Wedel, Janet Bergstrom and Naomi De Celles & two of Lotte's articles. @cinemathequefr @de_kinemathek @WFPProject @wienerlibrary @PamHutch #Weimar
Julia Eisner retweeted
For our next virtual #PhD and a Cup of Tea series on 18 Nov, Julia Eisner @jjeisner will be joining us to present her research on her great aunt Lotte Eisner, the well-known film historian who published three major retrospectives on Weimar cinema. Book: bit.ly/3uYWIkO
Doing a Wiener Library afternoon talk (phd & a cup of tea) about Lotte and invisibility in the archive and its consequences. 18th November 3-4pm Pretty sure you have to make your own cup of tea @cinemathequefr @de_kinemathek @kingsgerman @PamHutch @WFPProject @wienerlibrary
EVENT: @wienerlibrary are hosting @jjeisner on the 18 November 3-4pm (UK time) -In the archive with Lotte Eisner: how she solved the problem of 'Maria' (the robot) - wienerholocaustlibrary.org/e…
Many thanks to the Mayor of Neuilly and his team for honouring Lotte Eisner with a plaque on her apartment building. It was wonderful for us, her family, to be part of it and to see her contribution to film history and to film culture properly commemorated @cinemathequefr
Dévoilement de plaque commémorative au 5 rue des Dames Augustines où vécut de 1961 à 1983 Lotte H. Eisner, écrivaine et historienne du #cinéma, conservatrice en chef de la Cinémathèque Française.
En présence de la famille, du DG @cinemathequefr, du maire de #Neuilly et d’élus.
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Unveiling the plaque honouring Lotte on her apartment building in Paris this afternoon. That’s me and the Mayor of Neuilly and Fréderic Bonnaud of the CF. @cinemathequefr @WFPProject @PamHutch
En route to Paris to attend and speak at the unveiling of a plaque this afternoon honouring Lotte’s life and legacy. It’s on her apartment building in Neuilly. @cinemathequefr @WFPProject @de_kinemathek
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Julia Eisner retweeted
Happy belated birthday to Lotte Eisner who would have been 125 yesterday! Lotte’s legacy lives on in the great contributions she made to Weimar Film Studies, including biographies of Lang and Murnau, as well as her seminal text The Haunted Screen. #AcademicTwitter #Weimar #Film
Julia Eisner retweeted
Pioneering film archivist, critic and historian Lotte Eisner was #BornOnThisDay in 1896. A Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany, Eisner helped found @cinemathequefr in Paris, one of the world’s first film archives, and served as its curator until the 1970s. #WomensHistoryMonth
ALT Lotte Eisner and the iconic robot costume from Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) at La Cinémathèque Française.
Bumper birthday for Lotte today - honoured by the city of Berlin with a plaque on the last apartment building she lived in whilst working as a journalist on the Film Kurier (1927-1933) @cinemathequefr @de_kinemathek @kingsgerman @WFPProject
Happy Birthday Lotte. Archivist & writer #BOTD In the pic with her friend King (Vidor) at Cannes. The Haunted Screen was out and she'd created a stupendous (and uncredited) collection of Weimar production & set design artefacts for the CF archive @cinemathequefr @WFPProject
The Wiener Library is a huge and important resource - especially for 2nd and 3rd generations. Very soon there won't be anyone to tell our family stories first hand and we will rely on and need archives and libraries like this. @TSimpsonWL @TheAJR_
Just a few hundred to go! We can do this! Thank you everyone for your extraordinarily generous support. bit.ly/3luuCZ9
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Lotte Eisner asked Hitchcock for an artefact or script or something for the archive. Some time later a box arrived on her desk. She opened it and to her horror (and amusement) she was staring at the shrivelled head of Norman Bates’ mother.
En 1960, Hitchcock fait un beau cadeau à la Cinémathèque : la tête momifiée de Madame Bates dans #Psycho. Cette horrible figure constitue, aujourd'hui, l'un des objets les plus célèbres de la Cinémathèque.
Joyeux Halloween 🎃
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