September 2025 Roundup Related to GME Artists, Titles, and Colleagues

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September 2025 Roundup Related to GME Artists, Titles, and Colleagues

Today we recap screenings, events, and celebrations from September related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. At the beginning of the month, GME announced our shift to focusing on the distribution of moving image works available as Digital Site Licenses (DSLs). As part of this transition, we announced our distribution of Steve Bilich’s experimental short documentary NATIVE NEW YORKER as well as the early films of Warren Sonbert and films directed by Pierre Clémenti.

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Jean-Luc Godard's '60s French New Wave Classics Screening on 35mm at The Paris Theater Beginning on September 28th

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Jean-Luc Godard's '60s French New Wave Classics Screening on 35mm at The Paris Theater Beginning on September 28th

From September 28th through October 26th, The Paris Theater will celebrate the forthcoming release of Richard Linklater’s NOUVELLE VAGUE — which chronicles the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s BREATHLESS — with a series of Godard’s 1960s films presented on 35mm. The films showcased in this month-long celebration are BREATHLESS (1960), A WOMAN IS A WOMAN (1961), VIVRE SA VIE (1962), BAND OF OUTSIDERS (1964), PIERROT LE FOU (1965), and WEEKEND (1967). In conjunction with Kino Lorber, GME distributes one of Godard’s seminal works from this period — 1965’s ALPHAVILLE (1965) — to the North American university market as a Blu-Ray, DVD, and digital file. Bonus material on this release includes an interview with the film’s star, Anna Karina, and audio commentary by film historian Tim Lucas.

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Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 ALPHAVILLE Screens at MoMA

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Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 ALPHAVILLE Screens at MoMA

In typical Godardian fashion, ALPHAVILLE is a science fiction film, shot entirely on location, which uses no special frills to create a futuristic, truly alien ambience. Classical Parisian architecture mingles with Modernist high-rise buildings, and characters refer both to an imaginary future and to real current events. ALPHAVILLE is as slick, stylish, and improvisational as its New Wave siblings, but it is more concerned with big concepts like history, authoritarianism, and individual freedom than it is with interpersonal relationships.

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GME Notes with Sadness the Passing of Filmmaking Legend Jean-Luc Godard

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GME Notes with Sadness the Passing of Filmmaking Legend Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard upended cinematic conventions and expectations with his La Nouvelle Vague debut and international hit, BREATHLESS, and continued to astound, confront, and reinvent cinema, and sometimes confound audiences for the next 60 years. Though in the company of many great auteur talents of the period, Godard stood out in his strident social and aesthetic development, working in narrative, documentary and television formats simultaneously, while remaking each in the mold of his own, highly personal vision.

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