Millennium Film Workshop's Personal Cinema Series Presents Recent Video Works by Stephen Dwoskin - Other Dwoskin Titles On DVD From GME

STARTING TIME - 8pm (except where indicated)

Admission- $8 / $6 members.

NOVEMBER 27 (Sat.) STEPHEN DWOSKIN

Stephen Dwoskin, born in Brooklyn, New York, contracted Polio at the age of seven and was left disabled. After studying art with de Kooning and Albers, he attended NYU and the Parsons School of Design. He soon discovered experimental cinema and was influenced by the transgressive underground films of Jack Smith and Ron Rice. This led to the publishing of his book, FILM IS. He began making his own films and moved to Britain in 1964 where he has lived ever since. He was one of the founders of the London Film-makers Cooperative. His features, beginning in the 1970s, attracted much attention and critical acclaim, along with strong controversy.

THE SUN AND THE MOON, US PREMIERE (60min. 2007)

This video is some kind of enforced domestic cinema: an excessive video film in which the maker does not spare himself. Short of breath, in the absence of the spoken word. "The Sun and the Moon, a film fairy tale, is about two women's terrifying encounter with 'Otherness' in the form of a man, abject and monstrous, and for them to either to witness, accept or partake in his annihilation. All are caught in their own isolation and are fearful of the menace that has to be met. The film, as a personal interpretation of Beauty and the Beast, enciphers concerns, beliefs and desires in seductive images that are themselves a form of camouflage, making it possible to utter harsh truths." -S.D.

NIGHTSHOTS (1,2,3) (33min. 2006-2007)

Shot utilizing the "night vision" function of a digital video camera, these films deal with one person's perspective on sexuality, with the visual distortion and off-kilter color balance of the low-light camera adding to the film's unique point of view. Nightshots 1,2,3 was screened in competition at the 2007 Rotterdam International Film Festival. "The first three of a series of intriguing personal and erotic relationships, exploring in the intimacy of darkness, and transformed by the colour play of the night light." -S.D."Nightshots (1, 2, 3)" (2006-07)

"Nightshots (1, 2, 3)" (2006-07)

STEPHEN DWOSKIN Available on DVD for INSTITUTIONAL SALES

 14 FILMS BOX 1/3

  (1968-2003)           5-Disc Set

  Format: DVD PAL / Region 0, No Regional Code.   

  Institutional Sale Price: $400.00 plus shipping & handling.

DYN AMO

  (1972)

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CHAPLIN AT KEYSTONE - A 4-Disc Collection of 34 Films Now Available on DVD for Institutional Sales

CHAPLIN AT KEYSTONE

   (1914)   34 Films  /  4-Disc Set

   Format: DVD NTSC / Region 0, No Regional Code.   

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New Index DVD Releases Presenting MARIA LASSNIG & VISIONary Now Available for Institutional Sales

   MARIA LASSNIG - Animation Films

   (1970-1992)

   Format: DVD PAL / Region 0, No Regional Code.   

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   VISIONary - Contemporary Short Documentaries              and Experimental Films from Austria

   (2006-2008)           2-Disc Set

   Format: DVD PAL / Region 0, No Regional Code.

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J’ACCUSE and SLOW SUMMER Featured in MoMA’s Eighth International Festival of Film Preservation

To Save and Project: The Eighth MoMAInternational Festival of Film Preservation                                                  

October 15–November 14, 2010

The Museum of Modern Art11 West 53 Street  New York, NY 10019                                                                                                                                   

J’ACCUSE

1919. France. Directed by Abel Gance. With Romuald Joubé, Marise Dauvray, Séverin-Mars. Stunningly restored to its full 1919 length with its original color tinting by the EYE Film Institute Netherlands in collaboration with Lobster Films, and accompanied live on piano by Robert Israel, one of the world’s finest silent-film composers, J’Accuse is a milestone of silent cinema. It also endures as one of the most damning antiwar films ever made, said to have influenced Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway, and later championed by Susan Sontag and the film historian Kevin Brownlow. Made in the last, brutal year of the Great War, Gance’s technically groundbreaking film chronicles the decimation of a Provençal village as the sons of France go off to fight, either dying on the front or returning as shell-shocked, hollow men. Gance (La Roué, Napoleon) and his brilliant cameraman Léonce-Henry Burel filmed several sequences alongside the United States Army during the battle of Saint-Mihiel in September 1918. Gance would later recall the unforgettable “return of the dead” sequence that ends the film: "The conditions in which we filmed were profoundly moving….These men had come straight from the Front—from Verdun—and they were due back eight days later. They played the dead knowing that in all probability they'd be dead themselves before long. Within a few weeks of their return, eighty per cent had been killed." Silent. Approx. 161 min.

Friday, October 22, 2010, 7:00 p.m. , Theater 2, T2

Sunday, October 24, 2010, 1:15 p.m. , Theater 2, T2

LANGSAMMER SOMMER (SLOW SUMMER)

1976. Austria. Directed by John Cook, in collaboration with Susanne Schett. Screenplay by Cook, Michael Pilz. With Cook, Pilz, Helmut Bozelmann, Eva Grimm. A successful Canadian-born fashion photographer who became “Viennese by choice,” Cook is often cited as one of the most important Austrian filmmakers of the past fifty years—a true auteur who created a deeply personal and vital vision of his adopted city. This screening of Slow Summer, with its sardonic and at times disturbing blurring of fantasy and autobiography, serves as a prelude to a retrospective that will begin this December at Anthology Film Archives of new prints restored by the Austrian Film Museum. Cook takes the uncanny Viennese landscape and his demimonde of artist friends and collaborators as the subject of this fascinating experimental film, which he shot on Super-8 color stock and then printed on black-and-white 35mm. “[Slow Summer] is a strange film,” the critic Olaf Möller observes, “a bit unsettling in its relentlessness, even if one doesn’t know the people in it. The characters bear the same names as the actors, and the line between truth and dare is so thin it’s often just not there; one can never be certain whether the self-loathing and disgust expressed by these people is real, or part of the fiction.” Preserved in 2006 by the Austrian Film Museum, Vienna, and the film’s producer, Michael Pilz. In German; English subtitles. 83 min.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 8:00 p.m. , Theater 1, T1

Friday, November 5, 2010, 4:30 p.m. , Theater 1, T1

J’ACCUSE Is Available on DVD for Institutional Sales here.

SLOW SUMMER Is Available on DVD for Institutional Sales here.

All Six GEORGES MÉLIÈS Discs Including ENCORE Now Available on DVD for Institutional Sales

 All 6 Discs

 GEORGESMÉLIÈS – FIRST WIZARD OF CINEMA

(1896-1913)

173 Films on 5 Discs

 and

 GEORGES MÉLIÈS - ENCORE

(1896-1911)

26 New Discoveries

 Format: DVD NTSC / Region 0, No Regional Code.   

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Dulac's THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN Awarded "Best Critical Research On A DVD" in Bologna

This year's 

Il Cinema Ritrovato DVD Awards included THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN, 

cited for

the "Best Critical Research On A DVD", in a new award category this year.  

Congratulations to the disc's 

publishers, Light Cone and Paris Expérimental.  

GME is very proud to include the title in our catalog of 

select publications, 

exclusively available for North American institutional sales.

For more details on this year's Cinema Ritrovato DVD Award winners, 

Jonathan Rosenbaum, one of this year's judges, has blogged here:

www.jonathanrosenbaum.com

  THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN 

  (1927)  Germaine Dulac.

  Format: DVD PAL / Region 0, No Regional Code.

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CHICAGO - The Original 1927 Silent Classic Restored - NEW to DVD - Institutional Sales Exclusively from GME

  CHICAGO

   A Cecil B. DeMille Production

   (1927)  Frank Urson.    2-Disc Set

   Format: DVD NTSC / Region 0, No Regional Code.

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Silent Classics by Dziga VERTOV and René CLAIR - NEW to DVD - Institutional Sales Exclusively from GME

A SIXTH PART OF THE WORLD / THE ELEVENTH HOUR

(1926 / 1928)  Dziga Vertov.2-Disc Set

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THE ITALIAN STRAW HAT  

(1926)  René Clair.

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Dulac's THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN Available Now on DVD for Institutional Sale

 THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN  

(1927)  Germaine Dulac.

 Format: DVD PAL / Region 0, No Regional Code.

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