April 10, 2024

In March, GME Celebrated Pioneering Women In Film

April 10, 2024/ Jon Gartenberg

On the occasion of March being Women’s History Month, GME spotlighted numerous works by women filmmakers that we distribute on DVD, DSL, and/or Blu-Ray to the North American University Market. Most recently, GME has welcomed films by Ida Lupino, Alexandra Dean, and Suzan Pitt to our collection. Of course, many women have blazed trails in the world of cinema outside of being directors. One such woman, Adrienne Mancia, revolutionized the job of the film curator by championing the work of first-time, independent, and international filmmakers while working as a programmer at The Museum of Modern Art in the 1970s and ‘80s, thereby reshaping film culture in New York City (and beyond)

March 14, 2024

This Women's History Month, GME Highlights Works By Women Filmmakers We Distribute on DSL, DVD, and Blu-Ray!

March 14, 2024/ Jon Gartenberg

This Women's History Month, GME pays tribute to Women Filmmakers from our catalogue of digital moving image publications in DSL, DVD, and/or Blu-Ray format, which we make available exclusively to academic institutions in North America in collaboration with an array of archives and boutique publishers worldwide, including Cameo Media, Flicker Alley, Index Edition, Kino Lorber, Light Cone, and Re:Voir, among others. The role of women filmmakers has been generally overlooked in the writing of film histories. GME has carefully curated a selection of works from these organizations so as to more fully represent the significant contributions that women filmmakers have made from the birth of moving pictures.

October 28, 2023

Olga Preobrazhenskaia's THE PEASANT WOMEN OF RIAZAN Screening at MoMA

October 28, 2023/ Jon Gartenberg

On Sunday, October 29th, at 2pm, and later, on Tuesday, November 7th, at 7pm, Olga Preobrazhenskaia’s 1927 film THE PEASANT WOMEN OF RIAZAN will play at the Museum of Modern Art in the program After Alice, Beyond Lois: Mining the Archive with the Women Film Pioneers Project. GME distributes the work of over 100 women filmmakers, including Preobrazhenskaia. Her film is currently available to the North American university market, from GME, in the six-disc Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack EARLY WOMEN FILMMAKERS: AN INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY.

September 16, 2023

Ida Lupino's HARD, FAST, AND BEAUTIFUL to Screen at MoMI

September 16, 2023/ Jon Gartenberg

Tomorrow, September 17th, 2023, at 12:30pm, trailblazing director Ida Lupino’s 1951 psychodrama HARD, FAST, AND BEAUTIFUL will screen at the Museum of the Moving Image as part of their ongoing series Queens on Screen. Lupino is a key filmmaker in GME’s collection. We distribute to the North American university market, on Blu-Ray, DVD, and DSL, the director’s 1949 polio drama NEVER FEAR, as well as her nail-biting noir from 1953, THE HITCH-HIKER.

September 09, 2023

Jean-Luc Godard and Rose Lowder Films Play at TIFF

September 09, 2023/ Jon Gartenberg

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.

September 04, 2023

The Brooklyn Rail and the Film-Makers' Cooperative Screen Five Maya Deren Films for Labor Day

September 04, 2023/ Jon Gartenberg

Today, Labor Day, The Brooklyn Rail and the Film-Makers’ Cooperative have made five essential films by the Mother of American Avant-Garde Cinema, the only and only Maya Deren, available to view online, for free, for 24 hours! GME is proud to distribute these five Deren titles — 1943’s MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON, 1944’s AT LAND, 1945’s A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR THE CAMERA, 1946’s RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME, and 1948’s MEDITATION ON VIOLENCE — to universities in the United States and Canada as both DVDs and DVD/DSL bundles.

March 30, 2023

GME Features Moving Image Works by Women Filmmakers

March 30, 2023/ Jon Gartenberg

Women directors have long been a mainstay of film production, beginning with Alice Guy Blaché at the turn of the 19th century. However, their voices have frequently been omitted from film historical discourse. Ongoing efforts by the Women Film Pioneers Project has aimed to rectify these omissions by bringing their contributions center stage. In addition to featuring women silent film directors in GME’s distribution catalogue, we have also endeavored to highlight the significant contribution women artists have made to the development of avant-garde and experimental cinema, as well as to the documentary form and narrative filmmaking.

February 15, 2023

Maria Lassnig Restored Films in Retrospective at Anthology Film Archives

February 15, 2023/ Jon Gartenberg

To celebrate Maria Lassnig’s moving-image work, the restoration of her films, and the publication of “Maria Lassnig: Film Works”, Anthology Film Archives is presenting three programs devoted to both her “canonical” films and the newly completed “non-canonical” works that have expanded and enriched our understanding of her cinema.

September 07, 2022

THEMATIC COURSE SUGGESTIONS FROM GME AND MORE AS WE HEAD INTO FALL

September 07, 2022/ Jon Gartenberg

Looking ahead to the fall semester, GME would like to remind you of some of our popular titles that can be utilized for thematic teaching purposes, while also preparing you for a selection of new titles from Kino Lorber, Re:voir, Index Edition, Edition Filmmuseum, and others, soon to be released as downloadable DSL files and Disk/DSL bundles through GME Streamline.

March 23, 2021

GME STREAMLINE CELEBRATES WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH WITH BOMBSHELL A BIOPIC OF HOLLYWOOD LEGEND HEDY LAMARR

March 23, 2021/ Jon Gartenberg

GME Streamline celebrates Women’s History Month with a biopic of Hollywood legend Hedy Lamarr entitled BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY (2017), from the Zeitgeist Films label of Kino Lorber; GME now offers this motion picture as a Digital Site License to the North American academic community. Famous as one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, it was virtually unknown that actress Hedy Lamarr had a mind far more extraordinary than her public image, including her scientific work as an inventor.

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