October 15, 2021

NHTI – Concord’s Community College Presents Walther Ruttmann's BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (Germany, 1927)

October 15, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

NHTI’s Friday NIght Film Series presents Walther Ruttmann 1927 documentary of life in Weimar Berlin, Germany, BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (BERLIN, DIE SINFONIE DER GROßSTADT), one of the most famous silent classics films and a leading, early example of a genre that’s come to be known as City Symphony, an aesthetic also developed early on by Dziga Vertov, and Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand. As a means of expressing the life and vitality of a city through cinematic means, the City Symphony aesthetic has also influenced the work of generations of filmmakers throughout film history including Leitão de Barros, Henri Storck, Boris Lehman, Steve Bilich, Dominic Angerame, and others.

September 28, 2021

FILMS IN NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL BY TODD HAYNES, APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL AND PROGRAMMED BY AMOS VOGEL FOR CINEMA 16

September 28, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

We are proud to note the inclusion of several important filmmakers whose work is either distributed by GME, or, in the case of Todd Haynes, whose documentary THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, relies on licensing deals with GME.

September 23, 2021

GME Presents the Complete INDEX Edition Collection Now Available as DVD/DSL Bundles Featuring New Releases by Maria Lassnig & Mara Mattushka

September 23, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

GME is pleased to present the complete INDEX Edition Collection from Austria, now available to our North American university colleagues as DVD/DSL bundles. The label INDEX Edition was founded in 2004 by sixpackfilm and Medienwerkstatt Wien. Its aim is to make available previously hard to find moving image works in digital editions. Similar to a small publishing house for quality literature, INDEX Edition releases and distributes audiovisual publications relevant to the history of Austrian (as well as Eastern European) film, video, and media art.

September 10, 2021

ON THE EVE OF 9/11 GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS: NATIVE NEW YORKER AVAILABLE FOR DSL DOWNLOAD

September 10, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

Winner of numerous awards upon its release in 2006, Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER reflects on the enormity of the 9/11 attack on New York as Shaman Trail Scout 'Coyote' takes a journey which transcends time, from Inwood Park (where the island was traded for beads and booze), down a native trail (now 'Broadway'), into lower Manhattan (sacred burial ground, now including the newest natives of this island empire).

August 16, 2021

GME Celebrates Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2nd Jury Prize at the 74th Cannes International Film Festival

August 16, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

Just 11 years after winning the Palme d’Or for the jungle ghost story, UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (playing this week at The Museum of Modern Art in New York), Weerasethakul again takes a major award with his current MEMORIA, in which Tilda Swinton, a flower seller in Medellin, experiences something like Exploding Head Syndrome.

August 10, 2021

THE WOMEN BEHIND HITCHCOCK SERIES AT FILM FORUM THRU AUG. 19TH

August 10, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

Film Forum’s THE WOMEN BEHIND HITCHCOCK series presents thirty-one films on which Hitchcock collaborated with the most important and influential women during his career, most notably, his wife Alma Revile (variously in the roles of story editor, film editor, assistant director, and screenwriter), and producer and screenwriter, Joan Harrison.

August 10, 2021

The Cinema According to Mark Rappaport at Anthology Film Archives Aug. 11-24

August 10, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

Kino Lorber announces THE CINEMA ACCORDING TO MARK RAPPAPORT, a collection of works by the critically-acclaimed director of innovative narrative features and essay films, running at Anthology Film Archives, August 11—24. Programs will screen virtually August 11—24 and in theater August 19—22, the theater’s first-ever split virtual and in person series. Rappaport’s most well-known works—and the focus of the Anthology series—were created in the 1990s and onward, and feature his signature style of cinematic commentary comprised of archival film clips, including ROCK HUDSON’S HOME MOVIES and FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG (both available on disk and for DSL licensing from GME).

July 28, 2021

GME GEM 18 - Cool It Down with a SWISS TOUR

July 28, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

Natural athlete Cornell Wilde (A SONG TO REMEMBER, 1945) plays klutzy on the slopes of Zermatt, and clumsy in the grip of love, squeezed between Josette Day (LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE / BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, 1946) ) and Simone Signoret (LA RONDE, 1950). GME recently discovered a connection between the current CERVO Mountain Resort in Zermatt, Switzerland as the original location for director Leopold Lindtberg’s post-World War II holiday romp in the alps.

July 22, 2021

EXPERIMENTAL FILMS & VIDEOS FROM SPAIN & LATIN AMERICA NOW AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES IN DVD/DSL BUNDLES

July 22, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

Furthering our presentations of GME Streamline, we now offer digital site licenses as DVD/DSL bundles of films and videos from Spain and Latin America. These releases comprise moving image works encompassing experimental cinema, video art, documentary, world cinema, silent film and animation, including works by Segundo de Chomón, Val Del Omar and Nicolás Pereda.

July 15, 2021

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

July 15, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

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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