GME Distributes Films by Sergei Eisenstein, Which Play in Anthology Film Archives' Essential Cinema Screenings for January

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GME Distributes Films by Sergei Eisenstein, Which Play in Anthology Film Archives' Essential Cinema Screenings for January

As part of their Essential Cinema series, a collection of films screened on a repertory basis, Anthology Film Archives will show five works by Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein from January 13th to January 24th. GME is proud to distribute three Eisenstein titles to the North American university market — BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1926/1930), OCTOBER (1928), and OLD AND NEW (1929) — all of which are featured in Anthology’s program.

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FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE receives The Peter von Bagh Award at the 2020 Il Cinema Ritrovato DVD Publishing Awards

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FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE receives The Peter von Bagh Award at the 2020 Il Cinema Ritrovato DVD Publishing Awards

The text presented with this prestigious award from the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival remarks on “an exceptional presentation of a silent film—a revelatory restoration”, and further, “We applaud the newly composed score by Stephen Horne Frank Bockius and the recreation of Vladimir Deshevov’s original piano music from 1929, as performed by Daan van den Hurk.”

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GME DVD Distribution: End of Semester Update

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GME DVD Distribution: End of Semester Update

Gartenberg Media wishes the best for our university colleagues in these trying times. Due to the sudden advent of remote teaching beginning in March, we decided to suspend our announcement of our spring semester DVD releases until the fall of 2020. Nevertheless we are fully prepared to fulfill prospective orders to the academic community from our entire catalog of more than 200 titles. For a complete list of our DVD/Blu-ray titles and pricing, please click here. There are live links from each title to its individual web page description. We thought this listing would be helpful for university librarians who need to expend their budgets before the end of this academic year in May, as well as for professors anticipating teaching material for their fall curricula.

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GME DVD Distribution – Season in Review

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GME DVD Distribution – Season in Review

During this semester, Gartenberg Media Enterprises has offered an extensive slate of new DVD and Blu-ray publications for distribution to the North American academic community.  These digital editions were selected from film archives and boutique publishers worldwide, and represent the entire breadth and depth of moving image history.   They encompassed trick films by George Méliès, dating from the 1890s, through to 21st Century experimental filmmakers working in both France and the United States, including Jacques Perconte, Jeff Scher, and Robert Todd.

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GME Presents Fall Flashbacks — Fridrikh Ermler’s FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE

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GME Presents Fall Flashbacks — Fridrikh Ermler’s FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE

FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE (1929) was Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four productively contentious collaborations with the method actor Fiodor Nikitin. He plays a factory worker, Filmonov, who is traumatized by shellshock while serving as a soldier in the Czar’s army during the First World War. He loses his memory and identity for ten years — precisely the period in which the Bolsheviks won their revolution over the Tsarists and began the construction of the new Soviet Union. Ermler’s intention was to show the renewal of the country, the accomplishments of the Soviet system, and the liberation and rebirth of the people through the eyes of Filmanov.

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