The Holy Mountain, 1926: Dir. Arnold Fank
The Holy Mountain
Eureka Video of Holy Mountain
Still From Holy Mountain
Still From Holy Mountain
Notes
This post is currently what I'm describing as a 'phase one' post. A synopsis and contextual and critical comments will be added at a later date. Through the webliography below this post thus serves to act as a resource page. This will allow prospective course members and other visitors to conduct some basic research into the relevant film. For further research you may also consuly the relevant bibliography. Please use the bibliographies tag in the sidebar to access this resource.
Webliography
At the time of writing the following sites I consider the best researched academically or else are present because of the quality of their links. This is searched down to page 10 of Google.
Wikipedia on the genre of the Mountain Film
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_film
Link to a Goethe Institute Los Angeles retrospective of Fanck films with synopses:
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/calendar/calendardetails.aspx?details_type=2&id=138
link to officual Eureka webpage on Holy Mountain:
http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/the-holy-mountain/
Link to a blog discussion site run by Doug Cummings who is a part of the Masters of Cinema Group with links to Eureka Video:
http://filmjourney.weblogger.com/discuss/msgReader$882
Link to the article Mountains and Modernity by Eric Rentschler in New German Critique. This is a Jstor article and requires your library to have a subscription:
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-033X(199023)51%3C137%3AMAMRTB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W
Film video site with links to synopses of other Fanck films:
http://www.walkerart.org/archive/9/AE7371C9B1EAC1E5616E.htm
This Riefenstahl site is a strongly hagiographic one which nevertheless contains useful information both about her and on the page below about The Holy Mountain. Given the highly controversial nature of Riefenstahl's career any readings of the site need to to be critically astute.
http://www.riefenstahl.org/actress/1926/
BFI databses link:
http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/229901
Link to a short article on a German / Japanese co-production with the script written by Fanck inspired by the Holy Mountain:
http://www.mori.art.museum/english/contents/tokyo-berlin/about/img/Daughter.pdf
30 Mar 2007 16:13
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Tags: Arnold Fank Berg Films European Cinema German Cinema Kinoeye Leni Reifenstahl Mountain Film Genres Mountain Films Weimar And Nazi Cinema Weimar Cinema
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