Douglas Fairbanks and Benjamin Christensen Films Play at This Year's San Francisco Silent Film Festival

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Douglas Fairbanks and Benjamin Christensen Films Play at This Year's San Francisco Silent Film Festival

At this year’s San Francisco Silent Film Festival — described by eminent critic Leonard Maltin as “a feast for lovers of classic film and live music that is as elaborate, ambitious, and masterfully mounted as any I've seen” — THE BLACK PIRATE (1926) starring silent-era superstar Douglas Fairbanks, will screen, in addition to HAXAN, directed by Danish auteur Benjamin Christensen. This year’s festival begins on April 10th and runs through April 14th, with Fairbanks’ film playing on opening night. GME is proud to distribute, to the North American university market, 11 Fairbanks films in the DVD collection DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS: A MODERN MUSKETEER. GME also distributes two Christensen titles on DVD in the collection BENJAMIN CHRISTENSEN: SEALED ORDERS / BLIND JUSTICE.

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GME Distributes Robert Flaherty's NANOOK OF THE NORTH In Conjunction with Anthology Film Archives' Essential Cinema Screening This Month

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GME Distributes Robert Flaherty's NANOOK OF THE NORTH In Conjunction with Anthology Film Archives' Essential Cinema Screening This Month

As part of their Essential Cinema series, a collection of films screened on a repertory basis, Anthology Film Archives will show Robert Flaherty’s 1922 drama NANOOK OF THE NORTH on January 28th, at 5:45pm. GME distributes NANOOK OF THE NORTH on Blu-Ray to the North American university market.

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Jon Gartenberg to Present King Vidor, Henry King, and Francis Ford Coppola Films At MoMA As Part of Adrienne Mancia Tribute

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Jon Gartenberg to Present King Vidor, Henry King, and Francis Ford Coppola Films At MoMA As Part of Adrienne Mancia Tribute

On Wednesday, November 29th, 2023, at 1pm, GME President Jon Gartenberg will introduce King Vidor’s THE JACK-KNIFE MAN (1920) and Henry King’s THE SEVENTH DAY (1922) at the Museum of Modern Art, as part of their Adrienne Mancia tribute, which runs from November through December 2023. Later that day, Gartenberg will also introduce the Director’s Cut of Francis Ford Coppola’s first film, the 1963 AIP horror DEMENTIA 13.

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Esfir Shub and Dziga Vertov Films Screen at BAM in November

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Esfir Shub and Dziga Vertov Films Screen at BAM in November

Two Soviet films (THE FALL OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY and THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA) that GME distributes to the North American university market are playing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in November.

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Today is International Silent Movie Day!

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Today is International Silent Movie Day!

Today, September 29th, has been established by an international group of film archivists as Silent Movie Day! Head to the DVD Distribution section of our website and learn about the myriad International Silent Classics in our catalogue, currently available for institutional rental or acquisition in North America.

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Man Ray and Abel Gance Films To Screen at NYFF 61

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Man Ray and Abel Gance Films To Screen at NYFF 61

At this year’s New York Film Festival, presented by Film at Lincoln Center and playing in New York City from September 9th to October 15th, 2023, films by Man Ray and Abel Gance will screen in the Revivals section, which spotlights “important works from renowned filmmakers that have been digitally remastered, restored, and preserved with the assistance of generous partners.” GME distributes on DVD, with Re:Voir Video, to the North American university market, Ray’s RETURN TO REASON and EMAK-BAKIA in the eight-film collection CINÉMA DADA. GME is also proud to distribute Gance’s LA ROUE on DVD, to the North American university market, in conjunction with Flicker Alley. GME additionally distributes Gance’s J’ACCUSE (1919) on DVD with the same label.

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GME Salutes Silent Movie Day with Films from the U.S., Europe, and the Soviet Union

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GME Salutes Silent Movie Day with Films from the U.S., Europe, and the Soviet Union

Silent movies encompass a large selection of GME DVD, Blu-ray and DSL publications of films directed by major artists from around the world: Georges Méliès, Abel Gance, René Clair, Marcel L’Herbier, and Louis Feuillade (France); E.A. Dupont, F.W. Murnau, Walter Ruttmann, Ernst Lubitsch, and Georg Willhelm Pabst (Germany); Sergei Eisenstein, Lev Kuleshov, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Kalatozov, and Dziga Vertov (USSR); Alfred Hitchcock (UK); Segundo de Chomón (Spain); and Erich von Stroheim, Josef von Sternberg, Paul Leni, Charles Chaplin, Mack Sennett, Lewis Milestone, King Vidor, Allan Dwan, and Robert Flaherty (United States). The Danish Silent Cinema section of GME’s website highlights work of this country’s major directors of the silent era, including Alfred Lind, August Blom, Benjamin Christensen, and Carl Th. Dreyer. GME also distributes silent films from Portugal and Norway. The overlooked role of women filmmakers throughout silent film history is addressed by EARLY WOMEN FILMMAKERS: AN INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY, presented in a multi-disc DVD/Blu-ray boxed set. This illustrative tome features films directed by Alice Guy Blaché. Lois Weber, and Germaine Dulac, among others. Early cinema’s actualities are represented by compilations of short films from Austria and Denmark.

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NYC's Poster House Exhibits Revolutionary Soviet Films Posters

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NYC's Poster House Exhibits Revolutionary Soviet Films Posters

The Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s explores the origins, high points, and eventual demise of this golden age of Soviet graphic design, a revolutionary, though doomed visual language that for a short time represented the explosion of dynamic, innovative filmmaking in the new Socialist society. Gartenberg Media distributes several of the milestone Soviet films which are well represented in this exhibition, including KINO-EYE (1924), BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1926), A SIXTH PART OF THE WORLD (1926), and TURKSIB (1929).

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Esfir (Esther) Shub's Work to be Discussed during Women and the Silent Screen Archival Screenings

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Esfir (Esther) Shub's Work to be Discussed during Women and the Silent Screen Archival Screenings

Esfir (Esther) Shub’s SEGODNYA (USSR, 1930), straight from Gosfilmofond, the most extensive Russian film archive, will be screened for the first time in the US since 1932. It will be shown June 2nd at Women and the Silent Screen (WSS), a biennial international conference sponsored by Women and Film History International (WFHI).

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NHTI – Concord’s Community College Presents Walther Ruttmann's BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (Germany, 1927)

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NHTI – Concord’s Community College Presents Walther Ruttmann's BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (Germany, 1927)

NHTI’s Friday NIght Film Series presents Walther Ruttmann 1927 documentary of life in Weimar Berlin, Germany, BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (BERLIN, DIE SINFONIE DER GROßSTADT), one of the most famous silent classics films and a leading, early example of a genre that’s come to be known as City Symphony, an aesthetic also developed early on by Dziga Vertov, and Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand. As a means of expressing the life and vitality of a city through cinematic means, the City Symphony aesthetic has also influenced the work of generations of filmmakers throughout film history including Leitão de Barros, Henri Storck, Boris Lehman, Steve Bilich, Dominic Angerame, and others.

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