GME News
Ernst Lubitsch was invited to Hollywood by Mary Pickford to direct her in what would become her first adult role. The result is this thoroughly enchanting blend of the “cast of thousands” period films that Lubitsch had been making in Germany and his emerging interest in bittersweet romantic comedy.
Read MoreGartenberg Media wishes the best for our university colleagues in these trying times. Due to the sudden advent of remote teaching beginning in March, we decided to suspend our announcement of our spring semester DVD releases until the fall of 2020. Nevertheless we are fully prepared to fulfill prospective orders to the academic community from our entire catalog of more than 200 titles. For a complete list of our DVD/Blu-ray titles and pricing, please click here. There are live links from each title to its individual web page description. We thought this listing would be helpful for university librarians who need to expend their budgets before the end of this academic year in May, as well as for professors anticipating teaching material for their fall curricula.
Read MoreDuring this semester, Gartenberg Media Enterprises has offered an extensive slate of new DVD and Blu-ray publications for distribution to the North American academic community. These digital editions were selected from film archives and boutique publishers worldwide, and represent the entire breadth and depth of moving image history. They encompassed trick films by George Méliès, dating from the 1890s, through to 21st Century experimental filmmakers working in both France and the United States, including Jacques Perconte, Jeff Scher, and Robert Todd.
Read MoreIn order to further the presence of female stars in our distribution catalogue, we are offering (for the first time on DVD) classic silent films starring “America’s Sweetheart” Mary Pickford -- FANCHON THE CRICKET, billed as an “adult fairy tale”, and LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY, a “tomboy of the tenements”. Pickford stands in stature alongside such internationally renowned performers as Alla Nazimova (THE RED LANTERN) and Asta Nielsen, the latter who worked in both Denmark (AFGRUNDEN/THE ABYSS) and Germany (FOUR FILMS WITH ASTA NIELSEN).
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