Hugh Bell Seen as Key Influential Figure of 20th Century Black Photography

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Hugh Bell Seen as Key Influential Figure of 20th Century Black Photography

Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop, a groundbreaking exhibition of overlooked Black photographers, organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, establishes the importance of Hugh Bell's photography. While not a member of the Kamoinge Workshop, Bell is recognized by the curators of the exhibition as follows: “The Workshop’s artists have variously cited the influence of fellow photographers such as Roy de Carava, E. Eugene Smith, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gordon Parks, Hugh Bell, and Dorothea Lange, all of whom combined observation with their own personal impressions.”

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GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS CUTTING EDGE EXPERIMENTAL FILMS & VIDEOS FROM SPAIN & LATIN AMERICA NOW AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES IN DVD/DSL BUNDLES

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GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS CUTTING EDGE EXPERIMENTAL FILMS & VIDEOS FROM SPAIN & LATIN AMERICA NOW AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES IN DVD/DSL BUNDLES

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.

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Recapping GME's Announcement of it's Exclusive Partnership with Kino Lorber to Distribute Classic Films as Digital Site Licenses to the North American Educational Market

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Recapping GME's Announcement of it's Exclusive Partnership with Kino Lorber to Distribute Classic Films as Digital Site Licenses to the North American Educational Market

As spring settles in, GME would like to remind you of its 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.

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GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI’S THE CONFORMIST NOW AVAILABLE FOR DIGITAL SITE LICENSING

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GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI’S THE CONFORMIST NOW AVAILABLE FOR DIGITAL SITE LICENSING

Continuing our release of GME Streamline titles from the Kino Lorber collection, we are excited to now offer Bernardo Bertolucci’s cinematic masterpiece, THE CONFORMIST (1970). This film is both a searing study of sexuality and politics set in 1930’s Italy and a triumph of opulent visual storytelling. Bertolucci combines a flawless aesthetic with a deep emphasis on composition, design, and camerawork to slowly build a devastating portrait of the kind of personality that allows fascism to flourish. The protagonist, Marcello (played by Jean-Louis Trintignant), spends much of the film being followed by fascist henchmen who are shadowing him to ensure he carries out his orders.

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GME PRESENTS STREAMLINE: ESSENTIAL FILMS FROM THE FRENCH NEW WAVE ERA NOW AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES

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GME PRESENTS STREAMLINE: ESSENTIAL FILMS FROM THE FRENCH NEW WAVE ERA NOW AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES

We continue our GME Streamline releases with key films from the Kino Lorber collection, in this instance heralding seminal filmmakers and their movies from the French New Wave era: Jean-Pierre Melville’s BOB LE FLAMBEUR (1956), Jean-Luc Godard’s ALPHAVILLE (1965), and Alain Resnais’s LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (1961).

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GME STREAMLINE: PRESENTING CLASSIC SILENT FILMS BY HITCHCOCK AND MURNAU NOW AVAILABLE FOR DIGITAL SITE LICENSING

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GME STREAMLINE: PRESENTING CLASSIC SILENT FILMS BY HITCHCOCK AND MURNAU NOW AVAILABLE FOR DIGITAL SITE LICENSING

With GME Streamline, we continue to offer key classic films from the Kino Lorber collection, which we are proud to make available exclusively to the North American university market as Digital Site Licenses. We now present the HITCHCOCK: BRITISH INTERNATIONAL PICTURES COLLECTION, as well as F.W. Murnau’s seminal motion picture, THE LAST LAUGH (DET LETZTE MANN). Each of these releases are made available to academic institutions as standalone high resolution digital files , as well as being offered as DVD or Blu-ray bundle packages.

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Raimondo Borea's Photo of Kenneth B. Clark Licensed to THE BLINDING OF ISAAC WOODARD on PBS

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Raimondo Borea's Photo of Kenneth B. Clark Licensed to THE BLINDING OF ISAAC WOODARD on PBS

Premiering March 30th, the PBS special series THE BLINDING OF ISAAC WOODARD presents the story of the horrific beating of a Black army sergeant during WWII that ultimately set the stage for the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which finally outlawed segregation in public schools and jumpstarted the modern civil rights movement. Pictured above, Dr. Kenneth B. Clark was an important expert witness in Briggs v. Elliott (1952), one of five cases combined into Brown v. Board of Education (1954).

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GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS CURTIS HARRINGTON’S NIGHT TIDE STARRING DENNIS HOPPER

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GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS CURTIS HARRINGTON’S NIGHT TIDE STARRING DENNIS HOPPER

Harrington's debut feature, NIGHT TIDE (1961), stars a youthful Dennis Hopper in his first leading role, as a sailor who falls in love. Set in a seaside amusement park in Venice, California, Harrington blends a romantic mystery story with elements of film noir and the horror genre. The characters, locations, motifs, and themes present in Harrington's PICNIC (1948) – an amorous couple, parental authority, the seaside locale, the presence of sea monsters, and death – are transformed by Harrington in NIGHT TIDE from an experimental vision into a suspenseful narrative. The location photography by Vilis Lapenieks, the studio cinematography by Floyd Crosby (HIGH NOON, 1952), and the jazzy, melodic score by David Raksin (LAURA, 1944), all enrich the brooding atmosphere of the film.

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GME STREAMLINE CELEBRATES WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH WITH BOMBSHELL A BIOPIC OF HOLLYWOOD LEGEND HEDY LAMARR

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GME STREAMLINE CELEBRATES WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH WITH BOMBSHELL A BIOPIC OF HOLLYWOOD LEGEND HEDY LAMARR

GME Streamline celebrates Women’s History Month with a biopic of Hollywood legend Hedy Lamarr entitled BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY (2017), from the Zeitgeist Films label of Kino Lorber; GME now offers this motion picture as a Digital Site License to the North American academic community. Famous as one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, it was virtually unknown that actress Hedy Lamarr had a mind far more extraordinary than her public image, including her scientific work as an inventor.

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