August 10, 2020

THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD OF CHARLEY BOWERS NOW STREAMING AS PART OF FILM FORUM'S VIRTUAL CINEMA: REPERTORY PROGRAM

August 10, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

A delightful introduction and surprise for most audiences, this collection features newly-restored short comedies by Iowa-born Charley Bowers (1889-1946), a wildly inventive director, comedian, cartoonist, and animator... some might even call him an American surrealist. Mixing live-action with animated puppets and objects, Bowers helmed a score of little-known mini-masterpieces, many starring himself.

May 05, 2020

GME DVD Distribution: End of Semester Update

May 05, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

Gartenberg 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.

March 31, 2020

Women’s History Month: GME Features Moving Image Works by Women Filmmakers

March 31, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

As March draws to a close, GME feels it is important to pay tribute to Women Filmmakers from our catalogue of digital moving image publications. The role of women filmmakers has been generally overlooked in the writing of film histories. In order to rectify these omissions in the field of academic film studies, GME is proud to distribute significant moving image works created by female artists in DVD format.

March 09, 2020

GME DVD Distribution – Season in Review

March 09, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

During 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.

March 09, 2020

GME Presents Fall Flashbacks — Fridrikh Ermler’s FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE

March 09, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE (1929) was Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four productively contentious collaborations with the method actor Fiodor Nikitin. He plays a factory worker, Filmonov, who is traumatized by shellshock while serving as a soldier in the Czar’s army during the First World War. He loses his memory and identity for ten years — precisely the period in which the Bolsheviks won their revolution over the Tsarists and began the construction of the new Soviet Union. Ermler’s intention was to show the renewal of the country, the accomplishments of the Soviet system, and the liberation and rebirth of the people through the eyes of Filmanov.

March 05, 2020

Mack Sennett at Biograph Films Screening at MOMA March 6th

March 05, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

Mack Sennett spent his formative years at Biograph, emerging from the ranks of the Griffith stock company to become a regular comic lead and, soon, the primary director of Biograph’s comedy unit. These short, “split-reel” comedies, all from Sennett’s first year as a director, find him developing the broad, frenetic slapstick style that he would bring to his own company, Keystone, in 1912.

February 25, 2020

GME Presents DVD Fall Flashbacks - German Expressionism -- Paul Leni and Richard Oswald

February 25, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

The end of the silent era (1928 and 1929) saw an apotheosis of the art and craft of the motion picture, just as the advent of sound was overtaking the motion picture industry. At a time when film theaters were being wired for sound, studios produced “talkies” that were more stage-oriented. The height of artistic achievement in late-era silent films was visually demonstrated in films emanating from France, Germany, the United States, and the Soviet Union; these countries produced masterworks of sweeping camera movement and rapid-fire montage.

February 19, 2020

GME Presents Fall Flashbacks - Marcel L’Herbier’s L’ARGENT

February 19, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

The end of the silent era (1928 and 1929) saw an apotheosis of the art and craft of the motion picture, just as the advent of sound was overtaking the film industry. At a time when movie theaters were being wired for sound, studios produced “talkies” that were more stage-oriented. The height of artistic achievement in late-era silent films was visually demonstrated in films emanating from France, Germany, the United States, and the Soviet Union; these countries produced masterworks of sweeping camera movement and rapid-fire montage. GME is therefore pleased to present a group of films from these major motion picture producing countries for academic study and appreciation. From France, L’ARGENT (1928) is Marcel L’Herbier’s silent film swan song, a super-production of epic proportions which combines dizzying camerawork with Soviet-era montage techniques

February 12, 2020

‘Mozart in Love’ and the Cinema of Mark Rappaport at Anthology Film Archives through Feb. 18

February 12, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

Rappaport’s visual essay collage films,, ROCK HUDSON’S HOME MOVIES and FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG screen on 2/13 and 2/16 at 7pm and 8:45pm respectively.

February 11, 2020

GME Presents DVD Fall Flashbacks - Mark Rappaport’s Fictional Autobiographies of Rock Hudson and Jean Seberg

February 11, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

Concurrent with Anthology Film Archive’s retrospective of Mozart in Love and the Cinema of Mark Rappaport, GME is pleased to announce two DVD editions of key films from this filmmaker’s oeuvre: ROCK HUDSON’S HOME MOVIES (1992) and FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG (1995). Mark Rappaport has been one of the most original voices of the modern American independent cinema movement.

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