Letters by Warren Sonbert and Other Filmmakers Whose Works are Distributed by GME Included in "Correspondencias: Cartas Como Peliculas" Published by La Fabrica

Letters by Warren Sonbert and Other Filmmakers Whose Works are Distributed by GME Included in "Correspondencias: Cartas Como Peliculas" Published by La Fabrica

In Correspondencias : Cartas como películas, many of these letters do not only reveal secret friendships (Louis Lumière and George Méliès), but also unknown collaborations (Orson Welles and Robert J. Flaherty) or projects, which without these letters would have remained undocumented (Maya Deren’s idea of making a film about the circus, Pasolini’s proposal to Jacques Tati to participate in Porcile); other letters mark the end of a collaboration (Marguerite Duras, proposing a script to Alain Resnais, who after being rejected, would go on to film it herself). Other correspondences asking for help at times of creative confusion (Paul Sharits to Stan Brakhage, Stan Brakhage to Hollis Frampton, Gregory Markopoulos to Stan Brakhage); they document major historical moments (the War in the case of F. W. Murnau or Robert J. Flaherty, the political situation in Indonesia, Italy or France in the case of Joris Ivens, Pasolini or Truffaut), they appear like the chronicles of a journey (S. M. Eisenstein, Chick Strand and Ron Rice from Mexico, Warren Sonbert from Morocco, Resnais from Hiroshima, Ivens from Australia, Peter Hutton from Germany, Murnau from Latvia, Allen Ginsberg from India) or even greet other poets (like the letters-gift from Eric Rohmer, Anne-Marie Miéville or Chris Marker).

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New Digital Copies of Early Warren Sonbert Films Screened at CINEINFINITO Santander, Spain

New Digital Copies of Early Warren Sonbert Films Screened at CINEINFINITO Santander, Spain

Warren Sonbert’s HALL OF MIRRORS (1966), THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (1967), and THE TENTH LEGION (1967) were recently presented in the Cineinfinito #165: Warren Sonbert program at Centro Cultural Doctor Madrazo. The 2K DCP versions of these films were prepared by Light Cone, the European distributor of the films of Warren Sonbert in both 16mm and several now as digital versions, which are also available exclusively to the North American educational market by Gartenberg Media via GME Streamline. A total of five early Sonbert titles (the above 3 plus AMPHETAMINE, WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO?, both from 1966), are available as downloadable 2K DSL files from GME.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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Warren Sonbert’s AMPHETAMINE at MOMA

Warren Sonbert’s AMPHETAMINE at MOMA

A weeklong retrospective film series at MoMA (January 28 – February 5) entitled “Now We Think as We Fuck:  Queer Liberation to Activism” traces queer activism from the film archive's permanent collection. Works featured include those by Barbara Hammer, Gregg Bordowitz, Cheryl Dunye, Uzi Parnes, Warren Sonbert, Jean Carlomusto and Maria Maggenti, Gay Men's Health Crisis Inc, and the series' titular anchor, Marlon Riggs, with special appearances from Su Friedrich, William E. Jones, Lauren Halsted, and Ellen Spiro. 

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