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 30, 2021

MoMA Presents Finger in the Dike Productions: An Evening with Ken Jacobs, Aug. 5

July 30, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

The Museum of Modern Art recognizes more than 50 years of support for experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs with an expansive presentation in the Sculpture Garden including THE WHIRLED (1956–63) and the world premiere of ABSTRACT ETERNALISM (2021), with otherworldly explorations of paintings by Joan Mitchell and Jackson Pollock in the intercises. The screening also celebrates GME’s distribution partner Kino Lorber’s release of THE KEN JACOBS COLLECTION, a Blu-ray box set of 13 works, including MoMA’s own digital restoration of TOM TOM THE PIPER’S SON (1969).

July 28, 2021

GME GEM 18 - Cool It Down with a SWISS TOUR

July 28, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

Natural athlete Cornell Wilde (A SONG TO REMEMBER, 1945) plays klutzy on the slopes of Zermatt, and clumsy in the grip of love, squeezed between Josette Day (LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE / BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, 1946) ) and Simone Signoret (LA RONDE, 1950). GME recently discovered a connection between the current CERVO Mountain Resort in Zermatt, Switzerland as the original location for director Leopold Lindtberg’s post-World War II holiday romp in the alps.

July 22, 2021

EXPERIMENTAL FILMS & VIDEOS FROM SPAIN & LATIN AMERICA NOW AVAILABLE AS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES IN DVD/DSL BUNDLES

July 22, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

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.

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.

July 15, 2021

DVD/DSL BUNDLES OF EDITION FILMMUSEUM - VIENNA TITLES AVAILABLE FROM GME STREAMLINE

July 15, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

As part of this developing venture, GME Streamline is pleased to remind interested professors and librarians of GME's curated collection of DVD publications from Edition Filmmuseum - Vienna, all of which we now make available as DVD/DSL bundles. The Austrian Film Museum in Vienna was founded in 1964 by Peter Konlechner (1936–2016) and film artist Peter Kubelka (b. 1934). From its outset, the principal aims of the institution were the high-quality preservation and public presentation of film, as well as reaffirming the two important roles of cinema in society: as the most important form of artistic expression in modernity and as the chief historiographical source of the 20th century.

July 08, 2021

DOWNLOADABLE DSL FILES OF KINO LORBER TITLES AVAILABLE FROM GME STREAMLINE

July 08, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

At the end of 2020 GME was proud to announce a new, exclusive partnership with the renown theatrical and home video distributor Kino Lorber in order to make available to the North American university market a premiere selection of moving image titles from across the span of film history. When GME Streamline was soon after developed, we were able to expand our announcement to include the availability of downloadable HD DSL files of canonical works across the span of motion picture history.

June 27, 2021

Dziga Vertov’s THREE SONGS OF LENIN, Presented by Alex Ross, Screening at MoMA through July 18th

June 27, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

Alex Ross, longtime New Yorker music critic and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, introduces Dziga Vertov’s THREE SONGS OF LENIN (1934/38), commemorating the publication of his revelatory new book “Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music” (Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2020).

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.

June 18, 2021

BuzzFeed News Celebrates LGBTQ History During Pride Month with Photos by Hugh Bell

June 18, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

Hugh Bell, born and raised in Harlem, was an American photographer of Caribbean descent. He became most well-known in the 1950s for his photographs of jazz musicians. Bell also influenced a generation of photographers, most notably of the Kamoinge Workshop. In the 1980s and 1990s, Bell photographed Gay Culture, creating stylish portraits of individuals and couples in both candid and posed moments of self-expression. Particularly noteworthy was his singular effort to depict African-Americans who participated in these celebrations, which include Gay Pride, Wigstock, and the Greenwich Village Halloween parades.