Jim McBride's BREATHLESS Screens at the Roxy Cinema Tomorrow; McBride's DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY Screens This Month in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room

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Jim McBride's BREATHLESS Screens at the Roxy Cinema Tomorrow; McBride's DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY Screens This Month in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room

Tomorrow, July 5th, at 5pm, Jim McBride’s controversial 1983 remake of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 French New Wave classic BREATHLESS screens at the Roxy Cinema in Tribeca. McBride co-wrote the screenplay for BREATHLESS with L.M. Kit Carson, who starred in McBride’s feature directorial debut, the groundbreaking 1967 “mockumentary” DAVID HOLZMAN’S DIARY. Adrienne Mancia, a longtime friend and colleague of GME President Jon Gartenberg, championed McBride’s debut during her time as a curator in the The Museum of Modern Art’s film department, wherein she redefined the field of film programming by showcasing new and innovative works by emerging artists.

DAVID HOLZMAN’S DIARY streams this month in the Adrienne Mancia Streaming Room. Click here to view McBride’s film and read an excerpt from Gartenberg’s program note about DAVID HOLZMAN’S DIARY, written for the occasion of the film’s inclusion in MoMA’s 2023 Adrienne Mancia tribute.

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Hou Hsiao-Hsien's THE BOYS FROM FENGKUEI Screens at New York's Asia Society and Museum on January 8th

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Hou Hsiao-Hsien's THE BOYS FROM FENGKUEI Screens at New York's Asia Society and Museum on January 8th

Tonight, January 8th, at 6:30pm, an imported 35mm print of Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s THE BOYS FROM FENGKUEI (1983) will screen at New York’s Asia Society and Museum as part of Films To See Before You Die, an ongoing monthly series featuring “classic films and underseen gems from across Asia and the Asian diaspora with extended introductions by Asia Society's Curator of Film.” GME distributes THE BOYS FROM FENGKUEI in the collection HOU HSIAO-HSIEN: EARLY WORKS, which also features the filmmaker’s earlier features CUTE GIRL (1980) and THE GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME (1982). The collection is available to North American academic institutions as a DVD published by Cinematek, which includes three audiovisual essays by Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López as bonus features, and is accompanied by a multi-lingual booklet by Tom Paulus.

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GME Distributes Films by Marcel Hanoun, Including UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE, Which Plays at Anthology Film Archives This Month

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GME Distributes Films by Marcel Hanoun, Including UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE, Which Plays at Anthology Film Archives This Month

As part of their Essential Cinema series, a collection of films screened on a repertory basis, Anthology Film Archives will show Marcel Hanoun’s UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE (1959) on February 23rd at 6:45pm. GME distributes this title to the North American university market as both a DVD and a DSL file. Additionally, we distribute Hanoun’s OCTOBRE À MADRID (1964) and THE SEASONS (LES SAISONS) (1968-72) on DVD and DSL — the latter being a “quadriptych” made up of Hanoun’s films L’ÉTÉ (1968), L’HIVER (1969), LE PRINTEMPS (1970), and L’AUTOMNE (1972).

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December 2023 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

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December 2023 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

Happy New Year from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! As we ring in 2024, we’re reflecting on screenings, events, and celebrations from last month, in New York City and beyond, related to colleagues of GME, as well as films and/or filmmakers in our collection that we distribute to the North American university market. Notably, a mid-’60s sci-fi flick by Jean-Luc Godard returned to the big screen, while the Film-Makers’ Cooperative hosted a two-night benefit screening of an infamous Andy Warhol film — which GME President Jon Gartenberg was instrumental in rediscovering, in the mid-1980s, while working at The Museum of Modern Art.

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Jean-Luc Godard's ALPHAVILLE Plays at IFC Center Through December 28th

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Jean-Luc Godard's ALPHAVILLE Plays at IFC Center Through December 28th

A brand new 4K restoration of Jean-Luc Godard’s ALPHAVILLE (1965), made from the original 35mm negative by Studiocanal at Hiventy with the support of the CNC, opened at the IFC Center on December 15th and will play there through December 28th. GME distributes ALPHAVILLE to the North American university market as a Blu-Ray, DVD, and DSL file.

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Nancy Buirski's Documentary About John Schlesinger's MIDNIGHT COWBOY Now Available on DVD from Kino Lorber

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Nancy Buirski's Documentary About John Schlesinger's MIDNIGHT COWBOY Now Available on DVD from Kino Lorber

Last month, Kino Lorber released Nancy Buirski’s 2023 documentary DESPERATE SOULS, DARK CITY, AND THE LEGEND OF ‘MIDNIGHT COWBOY’ on DVD in North America. GME provided scenes from Jonas Mekas’ film REPORT FROM MILLBROOK (1965-1966) and SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ANDY WARHOL (1990, from THE SIXTIES QUARTET, 1990-1999) for this film. GME also distributes ten titles on Blu-Ray, DVD and DSL from Kino Lorber to the North American university market.

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September 2023 Roundup of Screenings Related to GME's DSL, DVD, & Blu-ray Offerings

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September 2023 Roundup of Screenings Related to GME's DSL, DVD, & Blu-ray Offerings

Happy Autumn from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! As we enter October, we’re looking back at a myriad of screenings from last month, in New York City and beyond, featuring films and/or filmmakers in our collection that we distribute to the North American university market. GME-associated artists were well-represented in September — from pioneering filmmakers like Ida Lupino, Jean-Luc Godard, Jose Val Del Omar, Maya Deren, and Man Ray, to contemporary artists like Karel Doing, Rose Lowder, and Lav Diaz. The work of Warren Sonbert, which is exclusively represented by GME, was also screened in various venues in September.

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Jean-Luc Godard and Rose Lowder Films Play at TIFF

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Jean-Luc Godard and Rose Lowder Films Play at TIFF

This month, films by Rose Lowder and Jean-Luc Godard are playing at the Toronto International Film Festival! GME distributes, to the North American university market, five films by Lowder (spanning 1978 to 1995) in a collection titled BOUQUET D’IMAGES. GME also distributes, on Blu-Ray, DVD, and DSL, Godard’s 1965 wonder ALPHAVILLE.

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April Roundup of Screenings Related to GME's DSL, DVD, & Blu-ray Offerings

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April Roundup of Screenings Related to GME's DSL, DVD, & Blu-ray Offerings

This past month saw the work of several filmmakers distributed by GME programmed in venues in the U.S. and abroad. It is a reminder of both the durability of these artists and their works and the ongoing interest in the kinds of notable independent and experimental moving image work that GME strives to provide to our buyers.

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Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 ALPHAVILLE Screens at MoMA

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Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 ALPHAVILLE Screens at MoMA

In typical Godardian fashion, ALPHAVILLE is a science fiction film, shot entirely on location, which uses no special frills to create a futuristic, truly alien ambience. Classical Parisian architecture mingles with Modernist high-rise buildings, and characters refer both to an imaginary future and to real current events. ALPHAVILLE is as slick, stylish, and improvisational as its New Wave siblings, but it is more concerned with big concepts like history, authoritarianism, and individual freedom than it is with interpersonal relationships.

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