GME News
A series of films by Warren Sonbert, curated and presented by GME President Jon Gartenberg, will screen at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. in June as part of the museum’s annual Pride Month event We Have Always Been Here. Gartenberg adapted these Sonbert programs from the Sonbert retrospective that played at The Museum of Modern Art in May of last year.
Read MoreThis semester, Gartenberg Media has presented a number of new selections on the GME Streamline section of our website for the distribution of films and videos, now available as Digital Site Licenses (DSL), exclusively to the academic community for the streaming of moving image works via the university’s own intranet or closed circuit network, in order to further enrich curricula as well as for library and research use.
Read MoreThis complements GME’s distribution of other key genre films, directed by such filmmakers as Ida Lupino, Richard Fleischer, and Curtis Harrington. Sirk was one of the major directors of melodrama during the 1950s, including MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION, ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, WRITTEN ON THE WIND, IMITATION OF LIFE. Based on a novel by William Faulkner (Pylon), THE TARNISHED ANGELS evokes depression-era New Orleans, enhanced by glorious black-and-white CinemaScope photography, Sirk's riveting chronicle of personal obsession, romantic longing and irreconcilable desires is one of the most noteworthy films to emerge from 1950s Hollywood.
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