Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is proud to be attending SCMS 2012, as an exhibitor. This year's Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference will take place at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, from March 21-25. We will be displaying an array of our premiere DVD & Blu-ray publications, including films by George Méliès (brought back to international attention by the recent release of Martin Scorsese's HUGO), Dziga Vertov, Carl Th. Dreyer, Germaine Dulac, James Benning, and many others.
In a series of forthcoming releases for the spring, GME is proud to add new DVD publications (all now available for pre-orders) of classic, silent, experimental and avant-garde film & video, including: George Méliès' famous A TRIP TO THE MOON, in its original, hand-painted color version of 1902 (2011 Winner of the National Society of Film Critics "Best Film Restoration" Award), together with THE EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE, a seminal documentary about Méliès and the rescue of his films from oblivion; a spectacular restoration of Ernst Lubitsch's last German feature, THE LOVES OF PHARAOH (1922); the second volume of James Benning films, pairing CASTING A GLANCE and RR; the latest volume of Collection Zanzibar, Serge Bard's FUN AND GAMES FOR EVERYONE; and DEPARTURES, works by West Coast experimental filmmaker Gunvor Nelson.
