GME News
December 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 MoreOn Sunday, November 30th, at 4:40pm, Marcel L’Herbier’s L’INHUMAINE (1924) screens at Film Forum, with live piano accompaniment by Steve Sterner. GME distributes L’INHUMAINE to North American academic institutions on a Blu-Ray published by Flicker Alley, which features a behind-the-scenes featurette about the making of L’Herbier’s film, a featurette chronicling the creation of the film’s original score, and a booklet consisting of rare on-set photographs and information about the film.
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.
On November 15th, Thomas Christensen was honored at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival for his tireless support of silent film preservation and exhibition thanks to his work as lead curator at the Danish Film Institute. Since its founding in 1972, the DFI has been devoted to preserving Danish film heritage, including masterpieces from the silent era. As lead curator, Christensen has been an integral part of the DFI's initiative to digitize their collection and make it accessible. To this end, the Danish Film Institute launched the series Danish Silent Classics, which consists of DVD releases of both individual silent films and anthologies. Many of these discs contain bonus features as well as filmmaker biographies and filmographies. GME is pleased to distribute a number of these publications to academic institutions in North America.
Read MoreThe 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).
Celebrate HITCHCOCKTOBER with five lesser-known, early films by Alfred Hitchcock, made in his native England prior to his relocation to Hollywood in the early 1940s.
These features, distributed by GME as Digital Site Licenses, find the director working in various genres outside of the thriller territory that eventually made him a household name and earned him the moniker “The Master of Suspense.”
Today we recap screenings, events, and celebrations from September related to GME titles, artists, and colleagues. At the beginning of the month, GME announced our shift to focusing on the distribution of moving image works available as Digital Site Licenses (DSLs). As part of this transition, we announced our distribution of Steve Bilich’s experimental short documentary NATIVE NEW YORKER as well as the early films of Warren Sonbert and films directed by Pierre Clémenti.
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