October 21, 2021

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Short Films at Maysles Cinema through 10/28

October 21, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

In addition to several features, including the Palme d’Or–winning UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (2010), Weerasethakul has produced dozens of short films and installation pieces. Each Thursday in October, Maysles Cinema has been running one of four distinct programs organized by the filmmaker himself, featuring work made between 1997 and 2020, spanning from two to sixty minutes, and often made on commission or in connection with longer work.

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.

October 11, 2021

Announcing Updated Clip and Photo Licensing Section of GME’s Website, Highlighting Our Work with Todd Haynes’ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND Film

October 11, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

GME provided scenes from Gideon Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968), Peter Emmanuel Goldman's ECHOES OF SILENCE (1964), Jonas Mekas’ AWARD PRESENTATION TO ANDY WARHOL (1964), SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ANDY WARHOL (1963-1990), and WALDEN: DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES (1969), and Warren Sonbert’s AMPHETAMINE (1966) to Todd Haynes and Swish Productions for upcoming Film Forum release and Apple TV+ broadcast of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND.

September 21, 2021

Nicolás Pereda's WHERE ARE THEIR STORIES? Now Streaming in MoMA's Virtual Cinema through 9/28

September 21, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

Together with his relative contemporaries Lisandro Alonso in Argentina, Pedro Costa in Portugal, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul in Thailand, the Mexican-Canadian filmmaker Nicolás Pereda imbues the lives of the working poor with dignity, complexity, and resigned humor, making the marginal central to our attention through his use of fragmentary narratives, oblique angles, near-wordless communication, anti-psychology, and a destabilizing interplay between neorealist “truth” (nonprofessional actors, indigenous locations) and staged “fiction.” In WHERE ARE THEIR STORIES?, about a familial conflict over land, Pereda introduces Teresa Sánchez and Gabino Rodríguez, actors who would continue to play mother and son in very different guises in subsequent films like TOGETHER, PERPETUUM MOBILE, SUMMER OF GOLIATH, and GREATEST HITS.

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 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 20, 2021

GME STREAMLINE IS HAPPY TO NOTE THE PREMIERE OF TODD HAYNES’S DOCUMENTARY “THE VELVET UNDERGROUND” AT THE 74TH CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

July 20, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

GME provided scenes from Gideon Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968), Peter Emmanuel Goldman's ECHOES OF SILENCE (1964), Jonas Mekas’ AWARD PRESENTATION TO ANDY WARHOL (1964), SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ANDY WARHOL (1963-1990), and WALDEN: DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES (1969), and Warren Sonbert’s AMPHETAMINE (1966) to Todd Haynes and Swish Productions for upcoming Apple TV+ broadcast of THE VELVET UNDERGROUND.

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 14, 2021

RECAP OF GME STREAMLINE DIGITAL SITE LICENSES AND STREAMED CONTENT FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN ACADEMIC COMMUNITY

May 14, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

This semester, Gartenberg Media introduced GME Streamline, a new section on GME's website for the distribution of films and videos that we are now making available as Digital Site Licenses (DSL), in addition to the occasional presentation of viewable streams on Streamline's title pages. We are offering this service exclusively to the academic community for the streaming of moving image works via the university’s own intranet or closed circuit network, in order to further enrich curricula as well as for library and research use.

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.

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