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James Benning’s first feature-length film announced the arrival of a radical new voice in the evolution of moving image art, and remains a landmark of the American avant-garde.
Read MoreLooking to the past while investigating the present, the mathematician-turned-filmmaker condenses three distinct Californian landscapes into a total of 105 shots, each exactly 2½ minutes long.
Read MoreWriter/artist Dennis Cooper & filmmaker Zac Farley: “We love James Benning’s films and thought about them when imagining our film’s possibilities. What makes his great 1987 documentary LANDSCAPE SUICIDE feel particularly like an elder kin to Permanent Green Light is how it eschews the psychological rhetoric that usually accompanies filmic accounts of crime, caring only about the mysterious vacancy of the film’s people and locations, and their relationships to each other.”
Read MoreGME is proud to announce the winners of the Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival 2018 DVD awards for Best Single Release (BEHIND THE DOOR) and Best Rediscovery of a Forgotten Film (MARQUIS DE WAVRIN).
Read MoreThere’s still time to catch the world premiere of a series of of newly discovered and restored experimental films by the artist Maria Lassnig. This important series, “Maria Lassnig: New York Films 1970–1980,” is concluding at MoMA PS1 on June 18.
Read MoreGME distributes several important Zanzibar titles, including Jackie Raynal's DEUX FOIS (1969) and Serge Bard's DÉTRUISEZ-VOUS (1968) and VITE (1969) which are now screening in the Paris, May ’68: Zanzibar and Philippe Garrel films series at the National Gallery of Art through May 27th.
Read MoreGME distributes Serge Bromberg’s HENRI GEORGES CLOUZOT’S INFERNO, a 2009 documentary based on material from Clouzot’s famous uncompleted film, THE INFERNO (1964), in a DVD edition destined for acquisition by academic institutions in North America.
Read MoreTrue to its title, the original, 10-reel version of THE LOST WORLD effectively disappeared from circulation in 1929—all known positive prints destroyed—a move by First National Pictures to help clear the way for another film utilizing special effects and Willis O’Brien’s cutting-edge animation techniques: KING KONG. For more than 80 years, only abridged editions of THE LOST WORLD remained in existence until now. This Blu-ray edition (published by Flicker Alley, and also available in a DVD MOD version) of THE LOST WORLD is the most complete reconstruction of the film. The 2K digital restoration features newly-discovered scenes and special effect sequences, incorporating almost all original elements from archives and collections around the world.
Read MoreTalented independent filmmaker Nicolás Pereda will be featured in a Special Event/interactive performance ("Nicolás Pereda’s The Private Property Trilogy”) on April 29 at the fifth edition of Art of the Real.
Read MoreGME is pleased to present the release of Philippe Garrel’s MARIE POUR MÉMOIRE on DVD. This auteur is the unsung hero of the French New Wave, who only now is beginning to receive the international recognition that he is due, thanks to worldwide retrospective screenings in recent years of his work.
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