NYC's Poster House Exhibits Revolutionary Soviet Films Posters

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NYC's Poster House Exhibits Revolutionary Soviet Films Posters

The Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s explores the origins, high points, and eventual demise of this golden age of Soviet graphic design, a revolutionary, though doomed visual language that for a short time represented the explosion of dynamic, innovative filmmaking in the new Socialist society. Gartenberg Media distributes several of the milestone Soviet films which are well represented in this exhibition, including KINO-EYE (1924), BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1926), A SIXTH PART OF THE WORLD (1926), and TURKSIB (1929).

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Erich von Stroheim's BLIND HUSBANDS Screening in MoMA's To Save and Project Series

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Erich von Stroheim's BLIND HUSBANDS Screening in MoMA's To Save and Project Series

A tale of seduction in the South Tyrol Alps (the Vienna-born Stroheim hones his signature role of the “dirty Hun”), Blind Husbands was a remarkable success with critics and the public alike, a cynical portrait of modern marriage that pits continental wit and eroticism against priggish moralizing. This restoration of Erich von Stroheim’s directorial debut brings us closer to the original 1919 version than ever thought possible.

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NHTI – Concord’s Community College Presents Walther Ruttmann's BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (Germany, 1927)

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NHTI – Concord’s Community College Presents Walther Ruttmann's BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (Germany, 1927)

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.

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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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GME Presents Silent Classic Films from Germany and the Soviet Union

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GME Presents Silent Classic Films from Germany and the Soviet Union

Two new digital publications expand GME’s offerings for academic use and study of classic silent films from abroad. THE CITY WITHOUT JEWS (1924) is a prescient and arresting German silent film about the persecution and deportation of the Jews, presaging the horrors of the Nazi era. Half a dozen other feature films made between 1919 and 1924 in Germany and Austria also focused on their plight: DER GOLEM (1919), LOVE ONE ANOTHER, 1922), and THE ANCIENT LAW (1923). Separately, this Blu-ray edition of THE BOLSHEVIK TRILOGY adds the works of Vsevolod Pudovkin to GME’s distribution of films by significant Soviet filmmakers for academic study and appreciation. This digital publication comprises this filmmaker’s cinematic trilogy MOTHER (1926), THE END OF ST. PETERSBURG (1927) and STORM OVER ASIA (1928), which collectively depict the tumultuous history of the Russian Revolution; CHESS FEVER (1925), Pudovkin’s short film about the Moscow chess craze, is presented as a bonus title on the Blu-ray edition.

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