GME Distributes Films by Sergei Eisenstein, Which Play in Anthology Film Archives' Essential Cinema Screenings for January

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GME Distributes Films by Sergei Eisenstein, Which Play in Anthology Film Archives' Essential Cinema Screenings for January

As part of their Essential Cinema series, a collection of films screened on a repertory basis, Anthology Film Archives will show five works by Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein from January 13th to January 24th. GME is proud to distribute three Eisenstein titles to the North American university market — BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1926/1930), OCTOBER (1928), and OLD AND NEW (1929) — all of which are featured in Anthology’s program.

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October 2023 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

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October 2023 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

Happy November from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! As we head into the holiday season, we’re looking back at events, screenings, and celebrations from last month, in New York City and beyond, related to colleagues of GME as well as films and/or filmmakers in our collection. October’s events offered a unique selection of GME artists and friends, from Dominic Angerame and James Benning, to Jeff Preiss and Jerome Hiler, both of whom were collaborators of Warren Sonbert, whose body of work GME exclusively represents.

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Esfir Shub and Dziga Vertov Films Screen at BAM in November

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Esfir Shub and Dziga Vertov Films Screen at BAM in November

Two Soviet films (THE FALL OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY and THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA) that GME distributes to the North American university market are playing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in November.

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Olga Preobrazhenskaia's THE PEASANT WOMEN OF RIAZAN Screening at MoMA

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Olga Preobrazhenskaia's THE PEASANT WOMEN OF RIAZAN Screening at MoMA

On Sunday, October 29th, at 2pm, and later, on Tuesday, November 7th, at 7pm, Olga Preobrazhenskaia’s 1927 film THE PEASANT WOMEN OF RIAZAN will play at the Museum of Modern Art in the program After Alice, Beyond Lois: Mining the Archive with the Women Film Pioneers Project. GME distributes the work of over 100 women filmmakers, including Preobrazhenskaia. Her film is currently available to the North American university market, from GME, in the six-disc Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack EARLY WOMEN FILMMAKERS: AN INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY.

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GME Salutes Silent Movie Day with Films from the U.S., Europe, and the Soviet Union

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GME Salutes Silent Movie Day with Films from the U.S., Europe, and the Soviet Union

Silent movies encompass a large selection of GME DVD, Blu-ray and DSL publications of films directed by major artists from around the world: Georges Méliès, Abel Gance, René Clair, Marcel L’Herbier, and Louis Feuillade (France); E.A. Dupont, F.W. Murnau, Walter Ruttmann, Ernst Lubitsch, and Georg Willhelm Pabst (Germany); Sergei Eisenstein, Lev Kuleshov, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Kalatozov, and Dziga Vertov (USSR); Alfred Hitchcock (UK); Segundo de Chomón (Spain); and Erich von Stroheim, Josef von Sternberg, Paul Leni, Charles Chaplin, Mack Sennett, Lewis Milestone, King Vidor, Allan Dwan, and Robert Flaherty (United States). The Danish Silent Cinema section of GME’s website highlights work of this country’s major directors of the silent era, including Alfred Lind, August Blom, Benjamin Christensen, and Carl Th. Dreyer. GME also distributes silent films from Portugal and Norway. The overlooked role of women filmmakers throughout silent film history is addressed by EARLY WOMEN FILMMAKERS: AN INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY, presented in a multi-disc DVD/Blu-ray boxed set. This illustrative tome features films directed by Alice Guy Blaché. Lois Weber, and Germaine Dulac, among others. Early cinema’s actualities are represented by compilations of short films from Austria and Denmark.

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THEMATIC COURSE SUGGESTIONS FROM GME AND MORE AS WE HEAD INTO FALL

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THEMATIC COURSE SUGGESTIONS FROM GME AND MORE AS WE HEAD INTO FALL

Looking ahead to the fall semester, GME would like to remind you of some of our popular titles that can be utilized for thematic teaching purposes, while also preparing you for a selection of new titles from Kino Lorber, Re:voir, Index Edition, Edition Filmmuseum, and others, soon to be released as downloadable DSL files and Disk/DSL bundles through GME Streamline.

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NYC's Poster House Exhibits Revolutionary Soviet Films Posters

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NYC's Poster House Exhibits Revolutionary Soviet Films Posters

The Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s explores the origins, high points, and eventual demise of this golden age of Soviet graphic design, a revolutionary, though doomed visual language that for a short time represented the explosion of dynamic, innovative filmmaking in the new Socialist society. Gartenberg Media distributes several of the milestone Soviet films which are well represented in this exhibition, including KINO-EYE (1924), BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1926), A SIXTH PART OF THE WORLD (1926), and TURKSIB (1929).

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Esfir (Esther) Shub's Work to be Discussed during Women and the Silent Screen Archival Screenings

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Esfir (Esther) Shub's Work to be Discussed during Women and the Silent Screen Archival Screenings

Esfir (Esther) Shub’s SEGODNYA (USSR, 1930), straight from Gosfilmofond, the most extensive Russian film archive, will be screened for the first time in the US since 1932. It will be shown June 2nd at Women and the Silent Screen (WSS), a biennial international conference sponsored by Women and Film History International (WFHI).

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DVD/DSL BUNDLES OF EDITION FILMMUSEUM - VIENNA TITLES AVAILABLE FROM GME STREAMLINE

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DVD/DSL BUNDLES OF EDITION FILMMUSEUM - VIENNA TITLES AVAILABLE FROM GME STREAMLINE

As part of this developing venture, GME Streamline is pleased to remind interested professors and librarians of GME's curated collection of DVD publications from Edition Filmmuseum - Vienna, all of which we now make available as DVD/DSL bundles. The Austrian Film Museum in Vienna was founded in 1964 by Peter Konlechner (1936–2016) and film artist Peter Kubelka (b. 1934). From its outset, the principal aims of the institution were the high-quality preservation and public presentation of film, as well as reaffirming the two important roles of cinema in society: as the most important form of artistic expression in modernity and as the chief historiographical source of the 20th century.

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RECAPPING GME STREAMLINE'S PRESENTATION OF FILMS FROM EDITION FILMMUSEUM - VIENNA AVAILABLE AS DVD/DSL BUNDLES

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RECAPPING GME STREAMLINE'S PRESENTATION OF FILMS FROM EDITION FILMMUSEUM - VIENNA AVAILABLE AS DVD/DSL BUNDLES

This past season GME Streamline was pleased to present a curated collection of DVD publications from Edition Filmmuseum - Vienna, all of which we have now made available as DVD/DSL bundles. These works comprise early cinema actualities shot in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century, classic silent American fiction films, monumental works of Soviet cinema, American experimental narratives, Austrian independent films, and cinema from Thailand in the postmodern era. This array of works comprise films by directors James Benning, Josef von Sternberg and Eric Von Stroheim (US), Dziga Vertov , Lev Kuleshov, Sergei Eisenstein, and Michail Kalatozov (USSR), and Martina Kudláček, Michael Pilz, and Canadian transplant John Cook (Austria), as well as Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand). Ideal for academic study and research, these DVD Editions contain multitudes of extras as well as bilingual texts in English and German about the respective films and their filmmakers.

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