March 19, 2021

GME STREAMLINE CELEBRATES WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH WITH TWO FILMS DIRECTED BY IDA LUPINO

March 19, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

In a continuation of our exclusive relationship with Kino Lorber, we now offer as Digital Site Licenses two films directed by Ida Lupino: NEVER FEAR (1949) and THE HITCH-HIKER (1953). Ida Lupino’s film and television career extended from the early 1930s through to the late 1970s. She proved to be a versatile figure in the movie industry, beginning as an actor in England as a teenager, and then later transitioning in the US to as an actor, screenwriter, producer and director.

March 15, 2021

GME Announces Exclusive Partnership with Kino Lorber to Distribute Classic Films as Digital Site Licenses to the North American Educational Market

March 15, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

GME is proud to announce an exclusive partnership with the renowned theatrical and home video distributor Kino Lorber, in order for a premiere selection of moving image classics to be made available as Digital Site Licenses for the North American university market. Kino Lorber, Inc. was founded in 2009 by industry veterans Donald Krim and Richard Lorber. Combining the staffs, libraries and resources of Kino International, Lorber Films and Alive Mind Cinema, Kino Lorber has quickly become new leader in distributing the finest Art-house and International films, including complementary third-party film labels such as Zeitgeist Films, Cohen Film Collection, Metrograph Pictures and others.

March 09, 2021

GME ANNOUNCES DIGITAL SITE LICENSES FOR THE EARLY FILMS OF WARREN SONBERT

March 09, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

GME Streamline is a new section on Gartenberg Media's website for the distribution of films and videos that we are making available as Digital Site Licenses (DSL) to the North American academic community, in addition to the occasional presentation of viewable streams on Streamline's title pages.

March 03, 2021

GME ANNOUNCES GME STREAMLINE: NOW OFFERING DIGITAL SITE LICENSES AND STREAMED CONTENT FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN ACADEMIC COMMUNITY

March 03, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

GME Streamline is a new section on GME's website for the distribution of films and videos that we are 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 market for the streaming of moving image works through the university’s own intranet or closed circuit network, in order to further academic teaching as well as library and research use.

February 26, 2021

Hugh Bell’s Photo Featured in BuzzFeed News Black History Month Tribute

February 26, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

BuzzFeed News features one of Hugh Bell's classic images from his series of Afro-Caribbean photos in their glowing tribute, "The Black Photographers Who Paved The Way For The World We Live In Now," appearing in the online magazine's Black History Month section.

February 09, 2021

Kino Lorber Releases Billie Holiday Doc with Hugh Bell Photos Licensed from GME

February 09, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

Now available on DVD and via streaming services from Kino Lorber, BILLIE (2020) is a documentary about the singer who changed the face of American music, and the journalist who died trying to tell her story. Directed by award-winning filmmaker James Erskine, the documentary is based on 200 hours of interviews conducted from 1970 to 1978 by journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl. Kuehl had intended to write a definitive biography of Holiday, and her research comprised interviews—taking up 125 audio cassette tapes—with Count Basie, Tony Bennett, Charles Mingus, and Sylvia Syms, among many other colleagues in the jazz world. She also spoke to Holiday’s cousin and childhood friends, as well as to her attorneys and the FBI agents who kept her under surveillance, due to both her drug use and her outspoken antiracism.

February 08, 2021

Gartenberg Media Notes the Passing of Film Legend Jean-Claude Carrière

February 08, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

Gartenberg Media notes with great sadness the passing of film legend Jean-Claude Carrière, who wrote screenplays for and collaborated with Luis Bunuel, Milos Forman, Jean-Luc Godard, Volker Schlondorff, Philippe Garrel, Louis Malle and others. Jon Gartneberg, President of Gartenberg Media, interviewed Carrière for a French film documentary during a retrospective of his films at the Museum of Modern Art in 2019.

January 20, 2021

GME Shares Martin Scorsese's Reminiscences of the NYC Indie Film Scene in the 1960s

January 20, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

Martin Scorsese reflects on his formative years as a film student and NYC, discovering “the excitement of a new kind of cinema” being made in New York and shown at the legendary Bleecker Street Cinema. Accompanied by scenes of the Bleecker Street Cinema filmed by Warren Sonbert.

January 18, 2021

Philippe Garrel's THE SALT OF TEARS (2019) Streaming from Film Forum

January 18, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

“Philippe Garrel, a prodigy of the French cinema (whose work was first included in the New York Film Festival in 1970, when he was twenty-two), has developed a spare method, a self-imposed classicism of dramatic intimacy… [THE SALT OF TEARS] rises very high with its fusion of brusque candor and unspoken yearnings…feels like a revisitation of the austerities, aspirations, and humiliations of an earlier age, a return to primordial experiences and artistic ambitions… The film also happens to have one of the best dance scenes in the recent cinema.”

January 11, 2021

Gideon Bachmann's UNDERGROUND NEW YORK streaming from Cineteca di Bologna through 1/17

January 11, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

Cineteca di Bologna presents Gideon Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968) in it’s program The Rediscovered Cinema | Outside the Hall. In this indecipherable period, where cinemas are closed for the first time since 1895, the Cineteca di Bologna is bringing its most precious experience into everyone's homes, that of The Cinema Ritrovato, the largest festival in the world dedicated to the history of cinema.