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GME is pleased to present five films by James Broughton and Joel Singer: Together (1976), Song of the Godbody (1977), Hermes Bird (1979), Devotions (1983), and Scattered Remains (1988) in a curated package devoted to their decades-long personal and creative partnership.
Read MoreAfter The Pleasure Garden was honored at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival, James Broughton was offered a Hollywood movie deal, which he turned down. The artist instead took a 15-year hiatus from filmmaking altogether to focus on his poetry. Upon returning to the medium in 1967, the counterculture had become the mainstream culture, and Broughton’s cinematic comeback met this euphoric and liberating moment. GME is pleased to present The Bed (1967), The Golden Positions (1970), and Testament (1974) in a curated package devoted to the second act in Broughton’s multifaceted career as a filmmaker.
Read MoreFrom 1948 to 1953, James Broughton crafted a series of humorous, at times fantastical, and often playfully anti-authoritarian films imbued with his poetic practice that earned him the reputation of “the father of West Coast experimental cinema.” GME is pleased to present three of those films — Broughton’s solo debut Mother's Day (1948), 1951’s Four in the Afternoon, and the artist’s crowning achievement from this period, 1953’s The Pleasure Garden — in the curated package Early Films by James Broughton.
Read MoreDecember 1st is World AIDS Day, an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic and honoring those who we have lost to HIV/AIDS. On this day of consciousness-raising, mourning, and remembrance, GME is honored to welcome Jim Hubbard’s ELEGY IN THE STREETS (1989) on DSL into our library of films currently available for international institutional acquisition.
Read MoreThis Thanksgiving, in recognition of the history and plight of Indigenous Peoples, Gartenberg Media is once again proud to distribute Steve Bilich's Native New Yorker to academic and cultural institutions worldwide.
Read MoreDown-on-their-luck detectives. Devious dames. Lust, lies, betrayal, murder... who doesn’t love a good film noir?
As November — or should we say, Noirvember — comes to a close, we reflect on our collection of noir titles on DSL, DVD, and/or Blu-Ray. From bona fide classics to long forgotten and recently rediscovered diamonds-in-the-rough, these macabre gems are currently available for North American institutional acquisition from Gartenberg Media Enterprises.
The 28th annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF) took place at the Orinda Theatre from November 12th to 16th. The largest and most prestigious festival devoted to silent film in North America, SFSFF presented 22 programs of rare and classic silent films, accompanied by live musicians, including a number of recent film restorations. A number of titles by filmmakers that GME distributes to North American academic institutions screened at the festival this year.
Read MoreToday we recap screenings, events, and celebrations from October related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. Notably, GME announced a number of new titles for distribution, including: five silent short films from Undercrank Productions, three unsung classics of Cantonese cinema recently rediscovered by the Asian Film Archive, five early British films by Alfred Hitchcock, and two overlooked New Hollywood “bookends” restored and re-released by Vinegar Syndrome. GME also announced the distribution of Warren Sonbert’s early films — for rental on digital formats — through The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, where they were originally distributed on 16mm beginning in the 1960s.
Read MoreGartenberg Media Enterprises is pleased to distribute new 4K restorations by Cinématographe of two seminal New York City thrillers — Joseph Cates’ WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR? and Paul Morrissey’s MIXED BLOOD — to North American cultural institutions as Digital Site Licenses.
Released in 1965 and 1984 respectively, WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR? and MIXED BLOOD both bookend and typify the "New Hollywood" era of the late 1960s and 1970s. Their transgressive explorations of violence, sexuality, social taboos and urban dysfunction emulate such better-known films as MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969), THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK (1971), and TAXI DRIVER (1975).
