{"id":29185,"date":"2025-05-23T12:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/?post_type=guests&#038;p=29185"},"modified":"2025-05-23T12:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:40:18","slug":"alexander-horwath","status":"publish","type":"guests","link":"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/en\/guests\/alexander-horwath\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Horwath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Austrian Alexander Horwath&#8217;s film career spans four decades. In the early years he wrote as a critic, in the 1990s he ran the Viennale International Film Festival and from 2002 to 2017 the Austrian Film Museum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a writer, Horwath tends towards history and the essay form. In his co-edited book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Last Great American Picture Show \u2013 New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2004), he says he started going to the cinema regularly in the late 1970s, inspired by <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Star Wars<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Gradually, he discovered the acclaimed auteur films of the decade and became aware of the contrast between the two traditions. Horwath has since edited <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Josef von Sternberg \u2013 The Case of Lena Smith<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2008), which focuses on the director&#8217;s missing film. The book speculates on the film and brings it to life by combining historical documents with essays by well-known film writers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last year, Horwath made his 185-minute debut film, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Henry Fonda for President<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2024). It is no coincidence that he is giving his masterclass on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Grapes of Wrath<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1940), which made Fonda a part of American \u2013 and cinematic \u2013 history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Kaisu Tervonen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austrian Alexander Horwath&#8217;s film career spans four decades.","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":29183,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29185","guests","type-guests","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alexander Horwath &#8212; Midnight Sun Film Festival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/en\/guests\/alexander-horwath\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alexander Horwath &#8212; 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