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Olaf Möller in front of Katharine Hepburn posters for Christopher Strong and Spitfire: "Das Spukschloss im Spessart [The Haunted Castle]! Which is fantastic. Great musical! It's a horror musical." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

On the opening night of The Lost Years of German Cinema: 1949–1963 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, film historian Olaf Möller, following his introduction of Gottfried Kolditz's White Blood (Weißes Blut), joined me for a conversation on the program he curated that includes sensational work of filmmakers Helmut Käutner, Hans Heinz König, Fritz Lang, Peter Lorre, Kurt Hoffmann, Harald Braun, Wolfgang Staudte, Aleksander Ford, Konrad Petzold, and Robert Siodmak.

Earlier in the day at the Walter Reade Theater I watched Robert Siodmak's The Devil Strikes At Night (Nachts, Wenn Der Teufel Kam) and Hans Heinz König's Roses Bloom In The Moorland (Rosen Blühen Auf Dem Heidegrab). I started out with a couple of childhood television memories.

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Strange Lands: International Sci-Fi, the week-long series opening today at New York's Film Society of Lincoln Center, "is an artfully eclectic journey across psychic terrain as well as geopolitical boundaries," finds the Kristin M. Jones in the Wall Street Journal. In the New York Times, Eric Hynes notes that the series "runs the gamut from space-age sex farce to dystopian nightmare and travels to such lost worlds as Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union." We've gathered previews of Gottfried Kolditz’s In the Dust of Stars (1976), Herrmann Zscoche’s Eolomea (1972), Aleksandr Sokurov's Days of Eclipse (1988), Karel Zeman's The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958) and more. » - David Hudson...

Strange Lands: International Sci-Fi, the week-long series opening today at New York's Film Society of Lincoln Center, "is an artfully eclectic journey across psychic terrain as well as geopolitical boundaries," finds the Kristin M. Jones in the Wall Street Journal. In the New York Times, Eric Hynes notes that the series "runs the gamut from space-age sex farce to dystopian nightmare and travels to such lost worlds as Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union." We've gathered previews of Gottfried Kolditz’s In the Dust of Stars (1976), Herrmann Zscoche’s Eolomea (1972), Aleksandr Sokurov's Days of Eclipse (1988), Karel Zeman's The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958) and more. » - David Hudson...