Reviews & interviews

Reviews

Quo vadis?, Cabiria and the ‘Archaeologists’: Early Italian Cinema’s Appropriation of Art and Archaeology
Michael Williams, ‘Quo vadis?, Cabiria and the ‘Archaeologists’: Early Italian Cinema’s Appropriation of Art and Archaeology’, Screen, 65, 1 Spring 2024, pp. 172-174.
Eric M. Moormann, ‘Quo vadis?, Cabiria and the ‘Archaeologists’: Early Italian Cinema’s Appropriation of Art and Archaeology’, International Journal of the Classical Tradition, uploaded 28 February 2024. 
Jan-Christopher Horak, ‘Ivo Blom’s Quo Vadis?, Cabiria and the Archaeologists’, Archival Spaces: Memory, Images, History, 334, uploaded 10 November 2023.

Grenzüberschreitende Licht-Spiele: Deutsch-Niederländische Filmbeziehungen
Philipp Stiasny, ‘Grenzüberschreitende Licht-Spiele: Deutsch-Niederländische Filmbeziehungen’, Filmblatt, 27, 2022), pp. 79-80. Also discusses the festival catalogue Kino, Krieg und Tulpen. Deutsch-Niederländische Filmbeziehungen.
Jan-Christopher Horak, ‘Grenzüberschreitende Licht-Spiele: Deutsch-Niederländische Filmbeziehungen’, MEDIENwissenschaft: Rezensionen | Reviews, 39, 4,  2022, pp. 402–404.  

Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art.
Yves Laberge, ‘Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art‘, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 5 March 2020.
Lorenzo Codelli, ‘Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art’, Positif, 706, December 2019, p. 115.
Stefania Parigi, ‘Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art‘, Imago – studi di cinema e media, 18, 2019, pp. 232-235.
Michael Syrimis, ‘Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art’, Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, 7, 2, 2019, pp. 313-315.
Maximilian Le Cain, ‘Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art’, Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 7 March 2019, pp. 1-4.
Louis Bayman, ‘Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art’, Screen, 60, 1, Spring 2019, pp. 181-183.
Robert Silberman, ‘Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art’, The Burlington Magazine, 161, March 2019, pp. 261-262.
Hajnal Király, Film in a Multiple Mirror: ‘Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art’, Senses of Cinema, 89, December 2018.
Andreas Jacke, ‘Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art’, Medienwissenschaft Rezensionen/Reviews, 4, 2018, pp. 427-429.

Alma-Tadema. Klassieke verleiding / Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity
Daen Palma Huse, ‘Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity’, The Protagonist Magazine, 3, 2017, s.p. The author mentions my article in the catalogue in particular.
Roberto C. Ferrari, Alma-Tadema, klassieke verleiding (Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity), Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide,  16, 1, Spring 2017.
Liselotte Doeswijk, ‘Peter Zwart: Rusttuin van de Pharao’, Vorm van vermaak, 31 January 2017.
Börje Höglander, Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity, Börjes konstblogg, 27 January 2017.
Henk Johannes van den Heuvel, ‘Alma-Tadema in Leeuwarden’, Woest & Vredig, 2 November 2016.
Marlies Stoter, ‘Lawrence Alma-Tadema, schilder van verhalen’, Collect, 466, October 2016, 32-39.
Влад Маслов, ‘Крупнейшая в истории ретроспектива «Альма-Тадема: классический шарм» начинает тур по Европе’ [The retrospective show is the largest in history. “Alma-Tadema: classical charm” begins tour in Europe], Artchive.ru, [October] 2016.
Dominique Vergnon, ‘Alma-Tadema, un fastueux metteur en scène’, Le salon littéraire, [October] 2016.
Anja Frenkel, ‘Alma-Tadema & Hollywood’, Tableau, 4, October 2016, pp. 18-29.
Kees Keijer, ‘Romeinse fantasieën’, Museumtijdschrift, 7, October/November 2016, pp. 18-25.
Erik Spaans, ‘Kruisbestuiving’, Het Financieele Dagblad, 29 October 2016, pp. 52-56.
Marc Holthof, ‘Best betaalde schilder in Londen was een Nederlander’, De Tijd, 28 October 2016, pp. 13.
Tanya Mohn, ‘Take a Dutch Detour For A Dose Of Classical Charm: A Retrospective Of Painter Alma’Tadema’, Forbes. Lifestyle. Wanderlust, 23 October 2016.
Susan Jacques, ‘Alma-Tadema: Classical Charm’, The Huffington Post. The Blog, 17 October 2016.
Koen Kleijn, ‘Wat prachtig, wat degelijk werk!’, de Groene Amsterdammer, 12 October 2016.
Arianna Testino, ‘Viaggio in Olanda. Tra Vermeer e Alma-Tadema’, Artribune, 10 October 2016.
Maurizio Cecchetti, ‘Alma-Tadema. Maestro di Hollywood’, L’Avvenire, 7 October 2016.
Mark Janssens, ‘Fries-Britse schilder van verhalen’, Nederlands Dagblad, 7 October 2016, pp. 10-11.
Stefan Kuiper, ‘Setdresser avant la lettre. De invloed van Lourens Alma Tadema’s werk op de filmkunst’, de Volkskrant, 6 October 2016, pp. V4-V5.
Robin Massonaud, ‘Alma-Tadema ou le romantisme antique’, L’Express, 5 October 2016.
Fiorella Minervino, ‘Alma Tadema a Leewarden, capitale della cultura 2018’, La Stampa, 3 October 2016.
Maev Kennedy, ‘Alma-Tadema show includes most expensive classical Victorian piece’, The Guardian, 3 October 2016.
Renske Bakker, ‘Zoete verleiding’, Leeuwarder Courant, 1 October 2016.
Henny de Lange, ‘Van kitsch naar kunst’, Trouw, 30 September 2016.
Dirk Limburg, ‘Een orgie van licht en schaduw’, NRC, 29 September 2016, C14.
Anita Terpstra, ‘Filmindustrie schatplichtig aan oeuvre Alma-Tadema’, special issue exhibition Alma-Tadema. Klassieke verleiding within NRC, September 2016, pp. 6-8.
Lambert Teeuwissen, ‘Zonder Alma-Tadema geen Gladiator’, NOS.nl, 27 September 2016.
Paola van de Velde,’ Verleidelijke schoonheid’, De Telegraaf, 8 September 2016.
Gretha Pama, ‘Zonovergoten schilderijen’, NRC, 25 August 2016.
Gretha Pama, ‘Friese schilder werd ster in Londen’, NRC, 23 mei 2016.
The book Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity was selected by the Evening Standard as one of the 12 best art books of 2016: David Ekserdjian, ‘The best art books of 2016’, Evening Standard, 22 December 2016.
Trailer for the combination of painting and film.

Italian Muscle in Germany (programme Giornate 2015)
Giuliana Muscio, ‘Maciste veste in smoking’, Il Manifesto, 6 October 2015.
Pamela Hutchinson, ‘Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2015: Pordenone post 1‘, Silent London, 4 October 2015. (on Mister Radio)
Daria Pomponio, ‘Il globo infuocato’, Quinlan, 8 October 2015. (on Der Unüberwindliche)
‘Le Giornate del Cinema Muto a Pordenone (II)‘, El Testamento del Doctor Caligari, 7 October 2015. (on Der Unüberwindliche)
‘Le Giornate del Cinema Muto a Pordenone (IV)‘, El Testamento del Doctor Caligari, 12 October 2015. (on Helena)
Jan-Christopher Horak, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2015, UCLA Film & Television Archives, Archive Blog, 23 October 2015. (on Helena)
Diane Wei Lewis, ‘The Pordenone Silent Film Festival: An Exuberant Global Survey of Silent Film’, The Center for the Humanities, Washington University in Saint Louis, 27 October 2015. (mentions Helena and Rinaldo Rinaldini)
Caterina Shanta, ‘Vi racconto il Pordenone silent: Le giornate del cinema muto 2015’, Verifica incerta, 15 October 2015. (on Mister Radio and Rinaldo Rinaldini)

Article ‘Morte a Venezia fra fotografia, pittura e cinema’ (2014)
Alessandro Tinterri, ‘Morte a Venezia. Thomas Mann/Luchino Visconti: un confronto’,  Annali d’italianistica, 33, 2015, pp. 527-530.
Valerio Furneri, ‘Morte a Venezia. Thomas Mann/Luchino Visconti: un confronto’, Rivista di studi italiani, 33, 1, June 2015, pp. 849-854.
Hermann Dorowin, ‘”Was hätte Thomas Mann dazu gesagt?” Ein interdisziplinärer Sammelband untersucht das Verhältnis von Der Tod in Venedig und Luchino Viscontis Morte a Venezia’, IASLonline, 10 December 2015.
Matthias Bürgel, ‘Morte a Venezia. Thomas Mann / Luchino Visconti: un confronto’, Arcadia. International Journal of Literary Culture / Internationale Zeitschrift für literarische Kultur, 50, 1, 2015, pp. 199–203.
Andre Furlani, ‘Morte a Venezia. Thomas Mann / Luchino Visconti: un confronto’, Modernism/modernity, 21, 4, November 2014, pp.
1033-1036.
Thea Rimini, ‘Un corpo a corpo tra libro e film. Morte a Venezia, tra Thomas Mann e Luchino Visconti’, Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani, 29, 2, 2014, pp. 105-107.
Simone Brioni, ‘Morte a Venezia. Thomas Mann / Luchino Visconti: un confronto’, Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies, 49, 1, May 2015, pp. 259-261.
Jelena Reinhardt, ‘Morte a Venezia. Thomas Mann/Luchino Visconti: un confronto’, Il Confronto Letterario, 63, June 2015, pp. 182-186.
Carmela Citro, ‘Morte a Venezia. Thomas Mann/Luchino Visconti: un confronto’, Sinestesie. Rivista di studi sulle letterature e le arti europee, XI, 2013, pp. 290-292.

Jean Desmet’s Dream Factory (catalogue and exhibition 2014-2015)
María A. Vélez-Serna, ‘Jean Desmet’s dream factory: the adventurous years of film (1907–1916)’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 36, 2, 2016, pp. 277-279.
Annette Förster, ‘Jean Desmet’s Dream Factory: The Adventurous Years of Film (1907-1916)’, Nineteenth Century Theater and Film, 42, May 2015, pp. 102-106.
‘Jean Desmet’s Dream Factory: The Adventurous Years of Film (1907-1916)’, Silents Please!, 4 April 2015.
Eline Grignard, ‘L’usine à rêves de Jean Desmet’, Aniki, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2015, 389-393.
André Waardenburg, ‘De wilde jaren van de vroege cinema’, De Filmkrant, December 2014.

Italian Silent Cinema. A Reader (2013)
Eugenia Paulicelli, ‘Italian Silent Cinema. A Reader’, Journal of Modern Italian Studies,
19, 3, 2014, pp. 345-346.

Networks of entertainment: Early film distribution, 1895–1915 (2007)
Stephen Bottomore, ‘Networks of entertainment: Early film distribution, 1895–1915’, Early Popular Visual Culture, 7, 2, 2009, pp.  218-219.

Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade (2003)
Beate Pempeit, ‘Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade’, The Moving Image, 5, 1, Spring 2005, pp. 159-161.
Richard Abel, ‘Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade’, Modernism/modernity 12, 2, April 2005, pp. 344-346.
Michael Ross, ‘Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade’, MEDIENwissenschaft 1, 2005, pp. 83-84.
Peter Bosma, ‘Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade’ et. al., Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television 25, 1, 2005, pp. 168-172.
André van der Velden, ‘Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade’, BMGN 3, 2004.
Ian Jarvie, ‘Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 24, 4, 2004, pp. 659-660.
Tom Gunning, ‘Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade’, Leonardo On-Line, Reviews, October 2004.
Jean-Jacques Meusy, ‘Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade’, 1895, 43, June 2004, pp. 120-123.
Eileen Bowser, ‘Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade’, Journal of Film Preservation, 67, June 2004, pp. 75-76.
Stephen Bottomore, ‘Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade’, Film History 16, 1, 2004, pp. 108-111.
Martin Loiperdinger, ‘Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade’, KINtop 12, 2003, pp. 177-179.
Piet de Rooij, ‘Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade’, Tijdschrift Mediageschiedenis VI, 2, 2003, pp. 129-131.
Ansje van Beusekom, ‘Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade’, in: Nieuwsbrief Letteren XVI, 4, October 2003, pp. 14-15.
Miriam van Ommeren, ‘Jean Desmet and the Early Dutch Film Trade’, [sic!], IV, 13, 2003, p. 11.
Machiel Bosman, ‘Bioscoopreclame’, Ons Amsterdam LV, 5, May 2003, p. 170.
Rob de Kam, ‘Van kermisattractie naar drama. Oude filmpjes laten zien hoe de film volwassen werd’, Dagblad van het Noorden, 2-5-2003, p. 25.
Henk van Gelder, ‘Hij wilde alleen maar goede zaken doen. Jean Desmet (1875-1956) en het begin van de Nederlandse film’, NRC, 4-4-2003, p. 27.
Short announcements in Filmmuseum Zine, 3, April 2003, p. 4, and De Filmkrant, 243, April 2003, p. 31.
Radio-interviews at Ophef & Vertier (VARA), 21-2-2003, and Opium (AVRO), 1-3-2003.
Floor Bal, ‘Van kermisklant tot cinemabaas. Ivo Blom haalt bioscoopgigant uit het vergeetboek’, Ad Valvas, 27-3-2003, p. 9.
Willem Ellenbroek , ‘Van kermistent tot bioscoop’, de Volkskrant, 20-2-2003, p. 13.8-111.

Gérôme & Quo vadis article, Jong Holland 4 (2001)
de Volkskrant, 27 December 2001, p. 7.
de Volkskrant, 9 January 2002, p. 13.
NRC, 29 December 2001, p. 9 (Kunst).

Dissertation (2000)
Aaf Brandt Corstius, ‘Glijbaanuitbater wordt filmpionier wordt makelaar’, Folia 30, 53, 31 maart 2000, p. 9.
Jann Ruyters, ‘Zwijgende film heeft iets exotisch. Kunsthistoricus Ivo Blom promoveert op studie over Jean Desmet’, Trouw, 30 maart 2000, p. 19.
Dick van Lente, ‘Pionier of trendvolger. De geschiedenis van een filmdistributeur’, in: Boekmancahier 48, 13, juni 2001, pp. 227-230.

Other
Joost Raessens, ‘TMG zet stappen richting serieuze evaluatie van games’, Skrien 37, 5, June/July 2005, pp. 60-61. [on the special issue of TMG on games & history I co-edited]
Egbert Barten, ‘De paus zegent de camera’, De Filmkrant 177, April 1977. On Jaarboek Mediageschiedenis 8, 1997 [including my article on Pathé in the Netherlands].

Interviews
Conversazione con Ivo Blom, Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, 25 June 2018. Interview by prof. Gian Piero Brunetta, in occasion of the launch of my book Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art.
Kees Driessen, ‘Zonder Tadema geen “Gladiator”‘, Ad Valvas, 6, 9 November 2016, pp. 10-13. Interview on occasion of my involvement in the exhibition Alma-Tadema. Classical Charm at Fries Museum, Leeuwarden.
Alma-Tadema’s Dream. Fryslân Dok, NPO2, 15 October 2016. One of the three interviewees, with Peter Trippi and Marlies Stoter.
Alma Tadema grote inspiratie voor filmmakers. GPTV, YouTube, 29 September 2016. One of the two interviewees, with Marlies Stoter.
Nooit meer slapen, 18 December 2014. Interview on occasion of the exhibition Jean Desmet’s Dream Factory at EYE, Amsterdam.
Met het Oog op Morgen, 29 April 2011. Interview on the recognition of the Desmet Collection as world heritage by Unesco.
Egbert Barten/ Jos van der Burg, ‘Jean Desmet. Van kermisklant tot heer van stand’, De Filmkrant, 212, June 2000. Interview on my dissertation.

Documentaries and broadcast news
NOS-Journaal, 28 September 2016. Item by Peer Ulijn. [Alma-Tadema exhibition, Fries Museum]
Jean Desmet, handelaar in dromen. Andere Tijden, VPRO, 24-2-2015. Director: Hein Hoffmann.
Dat mocht niet verloren gaan. 2015. De Filmhallen. Director: Jan Willem Looze. For trailer, look here.