Two Warren Sonbert Films Screen in "The Motown Sound and the Queer Underground," curated by GME associate Matt McKinzie

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Two Warren Sonbert Films Screen in "The Motown Sound and the Queer Underground," curated by GME associate Matt McKinzie

On Friday, August 30th, at 7:30pm, Warren Sonbert’s first two films AMPHETAMINE (1966) and WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? (1966) will screen at Spectacle Theater (124 S. 3rd St.) in the program The Motown Sound and the Queer Underground, curated by GME associate Matt McKinzie as part of the series Sonic Visions: Experiments in Cinema and Music, presented by the Film-Makers’ Cooperative. Sonbert’s Estate has previously named GME as the custodian of his legacy, and since the artist’s untimely passing, GME has worked on an extensive project to preserve, distribute, and curate career retrospectives of his films on an international basis, as well as publish original documents from the paper archive of his writings.

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GME Celebrates International Jazz Day with Hugh Bell: Jazz Portraits and Album Covers

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GME Celebrates International Jazz Day with Hugh Bell: Jazz Portraits and Album Covers

April 30th was declared International Jazz Day by UNESCO in 2011, and has since become the world’s largest celebration of jazz. In honor of International Jazz Day, GME highlights photographs from the Hugh Bell collection that capture a number of jazz legends from the 1950s through the 1980s.

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Jean-Pierre Melville's BOB LE FLAMBEUR Plays at Film Forum This Month

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Jean-Pierre Melville's BOB LE FLAMBEUR Plays at Film Forum This Month

Now through April 11th, Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1967 French noir LE SAMOURAÏ plays at Film Forum in a new 4K restoration, created from the original 35mm negative by Pathé and The Criterion Collection at L’Immagine Ritrovata. GME distributes Melville’s earlier gangster film, BOB LE FLAMBEUR, on DSL, DVD, and Blu-Ray to the North American university market.

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GME Remembers Mary Weiss, Lead Singer of The Shangri-Las

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GME Remembers Mary Weiss, Lead Singer of The Shangri-Las

GME remembers singer Mary Weiss, best known as the frontwoman of the 1960s girl group The Shangri-Las, who passed away on January 19th, 2024, at the age of 75. The cover photo for The Shangri-Las’ first album, Leader of the Pack, was taken by photographer Hugh Bell, whose vast collection GME represents. Notably, GME licensed Bell’s Leader of the Pack cover art for the 2022 film Call Jane, a 1970s-set abortion drama directed by Phyllis Nagy and starring Elizabeth Banks, which features the LP in one of its scenes.

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Jean-Luc Godard's ALPHAVILLE Plays at IFC Center Through December 28th

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Jean-Luc Godard's ALPHAVILLE Plays at IFC Center Through December 28th

A brand new 4K restoration of Jean-Luc Godard’s ALPHAVILLE (1965), made from the original 35mm negative by Studiocanal at Hiventy with the support of the CNC, opened at the IFC Center on December 15th and will play there through December 28th. GME distributes ALPHAVILLE to the North American university market as a Blu-Ray, DVD, and DSL file.

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Jon Gartenberg Recounts His Connection to the Films of Andy Warhol for the 60th Anniversary Benefit Screening of SLEEP

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Jon Gartenberg Recounts His Connection to the Films of Andy Warhol for the 60th Anniversary Benefit Screening of SLEEP

On December 2nd, 2023, GME President Jon Gartenberg provided background and context regarding the recovery of Andy Warhol’s film oeuvre at the 60th anniversary benefit screening of Warhol’s SLEEP, hosted by the Film-Makers’ Cooperative at The Bunker at 222 Bowery. Gartenberg was instrumental in the excavation and preservation of Warhol’s films in the 1980s.

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The Film-Makers' Coop Will Host a 60th Anniversary Benefit Screening of Andy Warhol's SLEEP on December 1st and 2nd

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The Film-Makers' Coop Will Host a 60th Anniversary Benefit Screening of Andy Warhol's SLEEP on December 1st and 2nd

Tonight, December 1st, and tomorrow, December 2nd, 2023, at 7pm, the Film-Makers’ Cooperative is hosting a benefit screening of Andy Warhol’s first major film, SLEEP (1963), at The Bunker at 222 Bowery. In the mid-1980s, while working in the Museum of Modern Art’s Film Department, GME President Jon Gartenberg was instrumental in the resuscitation of Warhol’s films, like SLEEP, which were thought to be lost or destroyed after Warhol pulled them out of circulation.

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Jerome Hiler Retrospective at Berkeley Art Museum This Month

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Jerome Hiler Retrospective at Berkeley Art Museum This Month

Since September, the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive has hosted a retrospective of the work of experimental filmmaker, painter, and stained glass artist Jerome Hiler. Hiler appears with his partner Nathaniel Dorsky in the work of Warren Sonbert, whose catalogue of experimental films, dating back to the 1960s, is exclusively represented by Gartenberg Media Enterprises. Notably, Hiler and Dorsky show up in the final sequences of Sonbert’s THE TENTH LEGION (1967) and NOBLESSE OBLIGE (1981).

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Light Industry Presents An Evening with Donna Kerness

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Light Industry Presents An Evening with Donna Kerness

This Saturday, September 23rd, 2023, at 7:30pm, our friends at Light Industry are showing three films starring the legendary Donna Kerness, including Mike Kuchar’s SINS OF THE FLESHAPOIDS. GME distributes this title to the North American University market on DVD. GME also distributes several films by Marie Losier, who was directly inspired by the work of Mike Kuchar and his brother, George.

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Warren Sonbert's AMPHETAMINE to Screen at WIELS with New Score

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Warren Sonbert's AMPHETAMINE to Screen at WIELS with New Score

Since the success of our Warren Sonbert retrospective at MoMA earlier this year, there has been renewed international interest in the artist’s extraordinary life and body of work, as evidenced by the forthcoming exhibition Billy Bultheel & James Richards: Workers in Song at WIELS in Brussels. Gartenberg Media Enterprises has granted permission for Richards to include Sonbert’s 1966 masterpiece AMPHETAMINE in this program — with a brand new score — which plays on Saturday, September 9th, and Sunday, September 10th, 2023.

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