July 08, 2021

DOWNLOADABLE DSL FILES OF KINO LORBER TITLES AVAILABLE FROM GME STREAMLINE

July 08, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

At the end of 2020 GME was proud to announce a new, exclusive partnership with the renown theatrical and home video distributor Kino Lorber in order to make available to the North American university market a premiere selection of moving image titles from across the span of film history. When GME Streamline was soon after developed, we were able to expand our announcement to include the availability of downloadable HD DSL files of canonical works across the span of motion picture history.

June 27, 2021

Dziga Vertov’s THREE SONGS OF LENIN, Presented by Alex Ross, Screening at MoMA through July 18th

June 27, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

Alex Ross, longtime New Yorker music critic and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, introduces Dziga Vertov’s THREE SONGS OF LENIN (1934/38), commemorating the publication of his revelatory new book “Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music” (Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2020).

June 24, 2021

DVD/DSL BUNDLES AND DOWNLOADABLE FILES AVAILABLE FROM GME STREAMLINE

June 24, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

As a reminder about GME's initial foray into the distribution of approximately 100 digital site licenses (DSL) available for films in our catalog, whether as DVD/DSL bundles or directly downloadable HD DSL files from our server, we present the following selection of inital GME Streamline offerings. Many more titles will soon become available from GME Streamline in both formats, in addition to new titles reflecting our recent partnership with Kino Lorber, new artists to be announced this fall, and additional resources from various, international boutique publishers.

May 10, 2021

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

May 10, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

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.

May 06, 2021

GME PRESENTS CUTTING-EDGE NARRATIVES BY JOSEF VON STERNBERG AND APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL, NOW AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES

May 06, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

GME Streamline is pleased to present two cutting edge films by moviemakers working 75 years and continents apart: THE SALVATION HUNTERS (1925) by Josef von Sternberg and MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON (2000) by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. GME is pleased to offer these two works as Digital Site Licenses via DVD/DSL bundle packages, which we now make available exclusively to our university clientele in North America.

May 04, 2021

GME PRESENTS THE FILMS OF JAMES BENNING NOW AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES

May 04, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

GME Streamline is extremely proud to present an extensive collection of 14 of James Benning’s films (comprising 6 DVD editions), as well as CIRCLING THE IMAGE (2003), a documentary on Benning’s meticulous investigation of landscape locations, camera position, and shot duration. These collected works comprising 16mm films span a 30 year period from 1977 (11x14) through to 2007 (RR), and have been mastered in high quality digital format by Edition Filmmuseum - Vienna. Benning’s born-digital films date from 2009 (RUHR) through to 2014 (NATURAL HISTORY) and exemplify Benning’s shift from working with film grain to pixels. We now make each of these films available as DVD/DSL bundles on an exclusive basis to the North American university market.

April 29, 2021

GME STREAMLINE CELEBRATES NATIONAL POETRY MONTH THE FILM POETRY OF DZIGA VERTOV NOW AVAILABLE AS DVD/DIGITAL SITE LICENSE BUNDLES

April 29, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

GME Streamline celebrates National Poetry Month and the DVD/DSL bundle release of the landmark films of Dziga Vertov. Sharing with poetry concepts of sound and rhythm through shot and montage via his "Kino-Eye" aesthetic, Vertov created one of the most innovative and influential bodies of cinematic work and theoretical writings in the history of moving image artistic expression. Through our relationship with Edition Filmmuseum, GME can now offer, for the first time, digital site licenses of these pioneering works with the purchase of DVD/DSL bundles.

April 27, 2021

GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS FILMS FROM EDITION FILMMUSEUM - VIENNA NOW AVAILABLE AS DVD/DSL BUNDLES

April 27, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

GME Streamline is pleased to present a curated collection of DVD publications from Edition Filmmuseum - Vienna, all of which we now make 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.

April 22, 2021

GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS THE SPANISH FILMS OF SEGUNDO DE CHOMÓN AND VAL DEL OMAR NOW AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES IN DVD/DSL BUNDLES

April 22, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

GME Streamline is pleased to present digital publications of two under-recognized yet important Spanish cinema pioneers, Segundo de Chomón and José Val del Omar, now available from GME as DVD/DSL bundles. Chomon was a rival of Georges Méliès, and cinema poet Val Del Omar flourished during the Silver Age of Spanish Culture, alongside compatriot and friend Federico Garcia Lorca. Our objective in presenting these two monographic digital publications of these experimental pioneers of the moving image is to reposition them within the discourse of world cinema, rather than only to the confines of Spanish film history.

April 20, 2021

GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS NICOLÁS PEREDA: 6 FILMS NOW AVAILABLE AS A DVD/DIGITAL SITE LICENSE BUNDLE

April 20, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

Following our recent GME Streamline announcement of DVD/DSL bundles of films and videos from Spain and Latin America, we continue with one of the major new voices in contemporary Latin American and world cinema, the young Mexican-Canadian filmmaker Nicolás Pereda (b. 1982). Pereda has emerged from seemingly out of nowhere to be feted with career retrospectives, festival screenings, and glowing critical praise. The DVD boxed set entitled NICOLÁS PEREDA brings together his first six feature films made between 2007 and 2012, as well as his short film INTERVIEW WITH THE EARTH (2009).

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