GME DVD Distribution: Classic Silent American Comedy - MACK SENNETT & CHARLIE CHAPLIN

GME DVD Distribution: MACK SENNETT & CHARLIE CHAPLIN Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is proud to announce the release of two new titles published by Flicker Alley, THE MACK SENNETT COLLECTION: VOLUME ONE and CHAPLIN'S MUTUAL COMEDIES, now available for institutional sales in North America.  Each deluxe high definition, digital publication presents a collection of milestones in the development of silent American screen comedy, all in newly restored editions.        THE MACK SENNETT COLLECTION: VOLUME ONE   "Over a 21-year period from 1912 to 1933, the short and feature films produced by Mack Sennett (and released under the banners of Keystone Comedies and Mack Sennett Comedies) played a large part in creating the style and language that has forever defined visual humor in motion pictures, earning Sennett the nickname "the King of Comedy" and recognition as the father of American film comedy."                                                     - Brent Walker, Mack Sennett's Fun Factory: A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies, with Biographies of Players and Personnel Sennett's historic studio - dubbed the "Fun Factory" - was at one time home to nearly every major silent screen comedian including Mabel Normand, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Harold Lloyd, Gloria Swanson, Wallace Beery, Harry Langdon, Marie Dressler, Ben Turpin, The Keystone Cops, the Mack Sennett Bathing Beauties, Ford Sterling, Charley Chase, Al St. John, Mack Swain, Edgar Kennedy, Chester Conklin, Slim Summerville, Polly Moran, Ford Sterling, Billy Bevan, Louise Fazenda, Vernon Dent, Carole Lombard, W.C. Fields, Syd Chaplin and Charlie Chaplin, who introduced his beloved Tramp character under the auspices of Keystone, in 1914 (CHAPLIN AT KEYSTONE, also available from GME). Now, for the first time, the best of these surviving Sennett comedies have been gathered from around the world, fully restored, and digitally re-mastered in HD.  THE MACK SENNETT COLLECTION: VOLUME ONE features 50 of these films presented together on a 3-disc Blu-ray set.  (These films are also available in DVD-R format, upon request).   This seminal collection also includes films directed, written, and acted in by Sennett for the Biograph Co. (1908-1912), as well as numerous bonus extras, including an episode from the television broadcast, "This is Your Life" in 1954, that pays tribute to this pioneering comedy producer. These new editions have been painstakingly reconstructed by CineMuseum and Keystone Films using original 35mm nitrate, archival negatives, preservation materials, and sometimes the lone known surviving film print, from the collections of the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Blackhawk Films®, Lobster Films, the Richard M. Roberts Collection, Gierucki Studios, and dozens of privately held archives.  THE MACK SENNETT COLLECTION: VOLUME ONE Mack Sennett    USA 50 Films  (1909-1933) featuring Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle,  Harold Lloyd, Gloria Swanson, W.C. Fields, Harry Langdon,  Ford Sterling, Mack Swain, Ben Turpin & many more! A 3-Disc Blu-ray Edition  Blu-ray    Region A Institutional Sale Price: $ 400.00 plus shipping & handling. Also available in DVD-R format upon request. Please inquire for details.   CHAPLIN'S MUTUAL COMEDIES   "When Charles Chaplin signed a record-setting contract with the Mutual Film Corporation in February 1916, it was the culmination of events that changed the motion picture business. Mutual's founders redefined how films were bought, sold and distributed. Chaplin redefined screen comedy with a character that leapt into the hearts of moviegoers around the world. Together they established the value of star power and created twelve magnificent comedies that have endured for generations. From the nickelodeon to the internet, the MUTUAL-CHAPLIN SPECIALS have been viewed by more people than any other films in the entire history of cinema."  - Michael J. Hayde, Chaplin's Vintage Year: The History of the Mutual-Chaplin Specials CHAPLIN'S MUTUAL COMEDIES commemorates the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Little Tramp with the premiere of a 5-disc Blu-ray/DVD box set, presented for a limited time in a collector's SteelBook case edition. The collection features 12 newly restored films, all scanned under the aegis of Association Chaplin from original 35mm prints gathered from archives all over the world, then digitally assembled and restored, a collaborative effort of Lobster Films in Paris and L'Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna, Italy.  Each film offers the option of either improvised piano accompaniment or a full orchestral score.  Among the many well-known composers and musicians featured are Eric Beheim, Neil Brand, Timothy Brock, Antonio Coppola, Carl Davis, Stephen Horne, Robert Israel, the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, Maud Nelissen, Donald Sosin, and Gabriel Thibaudeau.    CHAPLIN'S MUTUAL COMEDIES Charles Chaplin    USA The Floorwalker (1916) The Fireman (1916) The Vagabond (1916) One A.M. (1916) The Count (1916) The Pawnshop (1916) Behind the Screen (1916) The Rink (1916) Easy Street (1917) The Cure (1917) The Immigrant (1917) The Adventurer (1917) A Blu-ray / DVD Combo Pack Limited Collector's SteelBook Edition 2-Disc Blu-ray  Region A 3-DVD-NTSC  Region 1 Institutional Sale Price: $ 400.00 plus shipping & handling. Silent comedies of related interest also available from GME CHAPLIN AT KEYSTONE Charles Chaplin [Films from 1914] DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS: A MODERN MUSKETEER Christy Cabanne, Allan Dwan, John Emerson,  Victor Fleming, Fred Niblo & Theodore Reed [Films from 1916-1921] For a complete list of DVD and Blu-ray publications from our entire library of distribution titles, as a printable PDF, click here.   These DVDs are currently being made available to universities, libraries, museums, and other educational organizations in North America (US and Canada), and include public performance rights. Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and in other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged. Please Note: Many of our DVDs are published in PAL format Region 0.   PAL DVDs require a PAL or Multi-system DVD player for playback. Order by Phone @ 212.280.8654 or by Fax @ 212.280.8656 For inquiries and to order by e-mail, contact: sales@gartenbergmedia.com For our entire DVD catalogue, please visit: www.gartenbergmedia.com/dvd/

GME DVD Distribution - Upcoming Fall Releases

GME DVD Distribution - Upcoming Fall Releases "The superb dedication of such entities as the Criterion Collection, Milestone Films, and Gartenberg Media Enterprises, to name key players, are making possible access to a wealth of cinematic history, ephemera, and value-added materials."           - B. Ruby Rich, Film Quarterly Winter 2013   CHAPLIN'S MUTUAL COMEDIES Charles Chaplin DREAMINIMALIST Tony Conrad & Marie Losier GUNS OF THE TREES  Jonas Mekas HANS RICHTER: EARLY WORKS Hans Richter THE MACK SENNETT COLLECTION: VOLUME ONE Mack Sennett MENSCHEN UNTEREINANDER & UNTER DER LATERNE Gerhard Lamprecht NOTES ON NOTES ON FILM Norbert Pfaffenbichler RAMEAU'S NEPHEW Michael Snow THE SIXTIES QUARTET Jonas Mekas DIE VERRUFENEN (DER FÜNFTE STAND) & DIE UNEHELICHEN Gerhard Lamprecht Gartenberg Media is pleased to announce a full slate of DVD and Blu-ray publications for the fall academic semester, now available for institutional orders.  Carefully selected from boutique publishers, these releases span more than a century of motion picture history, from slapstick comedy producer Mack Sennett's The Curtain Pole (1909) to contemporary Austrian artist Norbert Pfaffenbichler's Intermezzo (2012). In our Film History section, we previously featured a multi-volume DVD publication that comprises 200 films (dating from 1896-1913) made by Georges Méliès, the pioneer French producer-director of trick films (GEORGES MÉLIÈS: FIRST WIZARD OF CINEMA  and GEORGES MÉLIÈS: ENCORE).  We now offer THE MACK SENNETT COLECTION, VOLUME ONE (published by Flicker Alley), comprising a compilation of 50 films (dating from 1909-1933) from the pre-eminent slapstick comedy producer (and director) of the silent and early sound era.  These films featured a star-studded array of a the leading comics of the time, including Roscoe "Fatty' Arbuckle, Harold Lloyd, Gloria Swanson, Harry Langdon, W.C. Fields, Mabel Normand, and Charlie Chaplin. Of all these comedians, Charlie Chaplin, of course, was the most famous global icon.  Augmenting our previous release of the multi-volume CHAPLIN AT KEYSTONE, we now offer a further in-depth study of his artistry with CHAPLIN'S MUTUAL COMEDIES (also from Flicker Alley).  These accomplished productions date from 1916-17, a period when the Chaplin was further refining his Tramp character, perfecting his impeccable comic timing, and introducing pathos into his films. Gerhard Lamprecht is most well known in film history circles for his multi-volume compilation of German film productions, Deutsche Stummfilme, dating from 1903-1931.  In 1963, he founded the Deutsche Kinemathek (Berlin). During the intervening period (1920-1958) he directed more than 60 films, and is best remembered today for his 1931 film version of Emil and the Detectives, scripted by Billy Wilder.  Now, the film archive which Lamprecht founded and Edition Filmmuseum have published four of his silent features from the years 1925-1928, in two separate DVD editions: DIE VERRUFENEN (DER FÜNFTE STAND) & DIE UNEHELICHEN and MENSCHEN UNTEREINANDER & UNTER DER LATERNE.  Each volume re-presents long-unavailable work by this legendary, yet overlooked, master of early German cinema, an artist due for rediscovery in North America. Paralleling the first decade of Lamprecht's moviemaking career in Germany, artist Hans Richter was creating movies in the abstract and Dadaist vein, while also increasingly turning to social critique in his later films.  Here, for the first time, we offer HANS RICHTER: EARLY WORKS (1921-1929), published by Re:Voir Vidéo. The European avant-garde artists of the 1920's inspired experimental filmmakers in postwar America.  Tony Conrad's seminal abstract film, The Flicker (1966), can be seen in this context through comparison with Richter's Rhythmus films. The Re:Voir DVD publication, DREAMINIMALIST, couples Conrad's film with Marie Losier's contemporary cinematic portrait of the artist, Tony Conrad: DreaMinimalist (2008), which focuses on a performative representation of his creative work and individual identity. In this cycle of releases, we are especially proud to feature, for the first time, work by Michael Snow, Canada's pre-eminent filmmaker and photographer.  His film 'Rameau's Nephew' by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen investigates the meaning of a "Talking Picture", i.e., the relationship between recorded speech and image in cinema. The DVD publication of RAMEAU'S NEPHEW, from Re:Voir, comprises not only this film, but also a 184-page bilingual book of essays, preparatory scripts for the film, and analysis of the 25 sequences of the film.  Jonas Mekas is the most significant force behind the evolution and promotion of the American Avant-Garde film movement, as well as one of its most prolific independent filmmakers and pre-eminent cinema poets.  Following up on our release last semester of JONAS MEKAS: THE MAJOR WORKS, we now offer both his rarely seen first feature length film, GUNS OF THE TREES, a fictional narrative of the Beat Generation, as well as, in a more poetic vein, THE SIXTIES QUARTET, that features portraits of Andy Warhol, George Maciunas, John Lennon, and the Kennedy family at Warhol's compound in Montauk, just several years after the assassination of President Kennedy.  All Jonas Mekas titles are published by Re:Voir. Last, but not least, in the vein of found footage filmmaking, we complement our previous release of GUSTAV DEUTSCH - FILM IST. (1-12), with the recent work (2002 - 2012) of NORBERT PFAFFENBICHLER - NOTES ON NOTES ON FILM, both published by Sixpack Films/INDEX DVD.  For a complete list of DVD and Blu-ray publications from our entire library of distribution titles, as a printable PDF, click here.  Please note that all of these titles are currently available for order processing.   These DVDs are currently being made available to universities, libraries, museums, and other educational organizations in North America (US and Canada), and include public performance rights. Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and in other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged. Please Note: Many of our DVDs are published in PAL format Region 0.   PAL DVDs require a PAL or Multi-system DVD player for playback. Order by Phone @ 212.280.8654 or by Fax @ 212.280.8656 For inquiries and to order by e-mail, contact: sales@gartenbergmedia.com For our entire DVD catalogue, please visit: www.gartenbergmedia.com/dvd/

GME DVD Distribution Academic Recap - End of Summer 2014

GME DVD Distribution Academic Recap - End of Summer 2014 "The superb dedication of such entities as the Criterion Collection, Milestone Films, and Gartenberg Media Enterprises, to name key players, are making possible access to a wealth of cinematic history, ephemera, and value-added materials."          - B. Ruby Rich, Film Quarterly Winter 2013 Please watch for our upcoming announcement of new publications offered for the Fall Academic Semester! Meanwhile, as the summer hiatus has recently just ended, GME is pleased to provide a recap of the DVD and Blu-ray publications that we've offered over the course of the last academic year, for North American institutional sales. These publications represent moving-image works spanning all periods of film history, including silent cinema, poetic documentaries from the sound era, and both classic and contemporary avant-garde films. DER BOMBERPILOT / NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI Werner Schroeter THE CURTIS HARRINGTON SHORT FILM COLLECTION  Curtis Harrington EIKA KATAPPA / DER TOD DER MARIA MALIBRAN Werner Schroeter FRENCH MASTERWORKS: RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉS IN PARIS 1923-1929 Ivan Mosjoukine, Alexandre Volkoff, Marcel L'Herbier & Jacques Feyder THE RED LANTERN Albert Capellani, featuring Alla Nazimova SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE Henri Storck HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: THE FORMATIVE YEARS [I] & [II] Heinz Emigholz THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME Wallace Worsley, starring Lon Chaney   JONAS MEKAS: THE MAJOR WORKS Jonas Mekas For a complete list of DVD and Blu-ray publications from our entire library of distribution titles, as a printable PDF, click here. These DVDs are currently being made available to universities, libraries, museums, and other educational organizations in North America (US and Canada), and include public performance rights. Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and in other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged.   Please Note: Many of our DVDs are published in PAL format Region 0.   PAL DVDs require a PAL or Multi-system DVD player for playback. Order by Phone @ 212.280.8654 or by Fax @ 212.280.8656 For inquiries and to order by e-mail, contact: sales@gartenbergmedia.com For our entire DVD catalogue, please visit: www.gartenbergmedia.com/dvd/

GME DVD Distribution Summer Announcement

GARTENBERG MEDIA ENTERPRISES  DVD DISTRIBUTION SUMMER ANNOUNCEMENT As a combination of summer break and summer session approaches, GME is open for business.  All of our DVD and Blu-ray offerings are available for ordering over the entire summer season.  For a complete list of DVD and Blu-ray publications from our entire library of distribution titles, as a printable PDF, click here.   In order to realign the fee structure of our multi-disc, DVD boxed-set offerings, all 3, 4, and 5-disc publications will be repriced as follows: 3-Disc Set @ $400    /    4-DVD Set @ $500    /    5-DVD Set @ $600 This pricing change affects the following publications: STEPHEN DWOSKIN: 14 FILMS BOX 1/3 5-Disc Set current price: $400.00 new price: $600.00       VAL DEL OMAR: ELEMENTAL DE ESPAÑA 5-Disc Set current price: $400.00 new price: $600.00  CHAPLIN AT KEYSTONE  4-Disc Set current price: $400.00 new price: $500.00 DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS: A MODERN MUSKETEER  5-Disc Set current price: $400.00 new price: $600.00 FRENCH MASTERWORKS: RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉS IN PARIS 1923-1929 5-Disc Set current price: $400.00 new price: $600.00   GEORGES MÉLIÈS: FIRST WIZARD OF CINEMA & ENCORE 5-Disc Set current price: $400.00 new price: $600.00 LANDMARKS OF EARLY SOVIET FILM 4-Disc Set current price: $400.00 new price: $500.00     SAVED FROM THE FLAMES 3-Disc Set current price: $300.00 new price: $400.00 Written orders for any or all of the above releases that are received before July 15 will be honored at the old pricing structure; after July 15, the new pricing structure will be in effect for the multi-disc DVD sets noted above. We have an ambitious slate of fall releases planned, so please watch for our announcement  in late August/early September for new DVD publications made available for the fall semester.  In the meantime, have a great summer!   These DVDs are currently being made available to universities, libraries, museums, and other educational organizations in North America (US and Canada), and include public performance rights. Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and in other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged.   Please Note: Many of our DVDs are published in PAL format Region 0.   PAL DVDs require a PAL or Multi-system DVD player for playback. Order by Phone @ 212.280.8654 or by Fax @ 212.280.8656 For inquiries and to order by e-mail, contact: sales@gartenbergmedia.com For our entire DVD catalogue, please visit: www.gartenbergmedia.com/dvd/

GME Announces JONAS MEKAS: THE MAJOR WORKS on DVD for Institutional Sales in North America

Gartenberg Media Announces JONAS MEKAS: THE MAJOR WORKS  on DVD Available for North American Institutional Sales Gartenberg Media Enterprises is very proud to announce the addition of JONAS MEKAS: THE MAJOR WORKS to our catalog of DVD titles available for institutional sales in North America.  This 7-Disc DVD Box Set, co-published by Re:Voir Video, Agnès B DVD and Potemkine, brings together, for the very first time, the key films created by Jonas Mekas.  These collected works, that span a filming career of more than 60 years, re-affirm his stature as one of the most prolific avant-garde filmmakers and pre-eminent cinema poets. Jonas Mekas was born in Lithuania in 1922.  In 1944, Jonas and his brother Adolfas (HALLELUJAH THE HILLS - also available from GME) were taken by the Nazis to a forced labor camp in Germany. After WWII he studied philosophy at the University of Mainz.  At the end of 1949, the UN Refugee Organization brought both brothers to New York, where they settled in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.  Immediately acquiring a 16mm Bolex camera, Jonas began filming his surrounding environment and friends, that he later assembled into films primarily centered on the dual themes of exile and assimilation. Jonas developed his diary style of filmmaking while simultaneously becoming immersed as a magazine editor and publisher (Film Culture), film critic (The Village Voice), distributor (the New York Film-Makers Cooperative), programmer (the Film-Makers' Cinematheque), and archivist (Anthology Film Archives).  In short, Mekas soon became, in singular fashion, the most significant force behind the evolution and promotion of the American Avant-Garde film movement.   "Mekas's enthusiasm for his contemporaries and his modesty and reticence about his own achievements as a film-maker contributed to an underestimation of his stature in the sixties and seventies...Congruent with the magnitude of his recording of the pulse of the New York art world for forty years is his slow revelation of the reflective self. By the nineties it was apparent that Mekas was one of the central filmmakers of the American avant-garde." - P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film    "Since 1950, I have been keeping a film diary.  I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality:  situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year.   On some days I shot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes.  Or I shoot nothing.  When one writes diaries, its' a retrospective process:  you sit down, you look back at your day, and you write it all down.  To keep a film (camera) diary, is to react (with your camera) immediately, now, this instant:  either you get it now or you don't get it at all.  To go back and shoot it later, it would mean restating, be it events or feelings.  To get it now, as it happens, demands the total mastery of one's tools (in this case, Bolex): it has to register my state of feeling (and the memories) as I react.  Which also means that I had to do all the structuring (editing) right there, during the shooting, in the camera." - Jonas Mekas     JONAS MEKAS: THE MAJOR WORKS This DVD boxed set comprises the following 16 films: THE BRIG (1964)  65 minutes. WALDEN: DIARIES, NOTES AND SKETCHES (1969)  180 minutes. REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA (1972)  82 minutes. LOST LOST LOST (1976)  65 minutes. AS I WAS MOVING AHEAD I SAW BRIEF GLIMPSES OF BEAUTY (2000)  285 minutes / 2-Disc Set SHORT FILM WORKS Cassis (1966)  4 minutes. Notes on the Circus (1966)  12 minutes. Hare Krishna (1966)  4 minutes. Report from Millbrook (1965-66)  12 minutes. Time and Fortune Vietnam Newsreel (1968)  4 minutes. Travel Songs (1967-81)  25 minutes. Quartet Number One (1991)  8 minutes. Imperfect Three-Image Films (1995)  6 minutes. Song of Avignon (1998)  5 minutes. Mozart, Wien & Elvis (2000)  3 minutes. Williamsburg (1949-2002)  15 minutes.   7-Disc DVD Collection DVD-PAL Region 0 / No Regional Code.  With English, French & Lithuanian subtitles.   Institutional Sale Price: $ 800.00 plus shipping & handling.     Watch for our Next DVD Release Newsletter Coming Soon!     These DVDs are currently being made available to universities, libraries, museums, and other educational organizations in North America (US and Canada), and include public performance rights. Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and in other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged. Please Note: Many of our DVDs are published in PAL format Region 0.   PAL DVDs require a PAL or Multi-system DVD player for playback. Order by Phone @ 212.280.8654 or by Fax @ 212.280.8656 For inquiries and to order by e-mail, contact: sales@gartenbergmedia.com For our entire DVD catalogue, please visit: www.gartenbergmedia.com/dvd/

GME Announces THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME on Blu-ray for Institutional Sales in North America

Gartenberg Media Announces Lon Chaney in THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME  on Blu-ray Available for North American Institutional Sales Gartenberg Media Enterprises is proud to announce the classic silent motion picture THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, starring the legendary Lon Chaney and published on Blu-ray disc by Flicker Alley, as the latest addition to our catalog of titles available for institutional sales in North America. Adapted from the classic novel Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) by Victor Hugo (Les Misérables, 1862) THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME is a massive production; the sets depicting 15th-century Paris covered nineteen acres of the Universal Pictures back-lot and included the façade of Notre-Dame Cathedral.  Filming took six months. and the climactic sequence employed two thousand extras.  But, it is the performance of Lon Chaney as Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell-ringer, that makes the film so unforgettable.  THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME premiered at New York's Astor Theatre on September 2, 1923.  The success of the film was immediate: it made a fortune for Carl Laemmle and the then fledgling Universal Pictures; and it turned Lon Chaney into one of the most popular stars of the silent era and the screen legend known as The Man of A Thousand Faces! This edition is mastered from a multi-tinted 16mm print struck in 1926 from the original camera negative.  The film is not known to have survived in 35mm.  Visible wear in the source material has been diminished with a moderate amount of digital restoration.  It is pictorially much better than earlier video editions and represents the best condition in which this landmark film survives today.  A new symphonic score arranged by Donald Hunsberger was recorded in the Czech Republic by full orchestra conducted by Robert Israel.   Running Time: 110 minutes.   THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME Wallace Worsley  -  USA (1923) Blu-ray Edition Region Free / No Regional Code. Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling.     Watch for our Next DVD Release Newsletter Coming Soon!     These DVDs are currently being made available to universities, libraries, museums, and other educational organizations in North America (US and Canada), and include public performance rights. Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and in other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged. Please Note: Many of our DVDs are published in PAL format Region 0.   PAL DVDs require a PAL or Multi-system DVD player for playback. Order by Phone @ 212.280.8654 or by Fax @ 212.280.8656 For inquiries and to order by e-mail, contact: sales@gartenbergmedia.com For our entire DVD catalogue, please visit: www.gartenbergmedia.com/dvd/

GME Announces HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: THE FORMATIVE YEARS [I] & [II] Now Available on DVD for Institutional Sales

Gartenberg Media Announces   HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: THE FORMATIVE YEARS [I] & [II] Gartenberg Media Enterprises is proud to announce the release of a pair of DVD publications presenting the early works of experimental filmmaker Heinz Emigholz, entitled HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: THE FORMATIVE YEARS [I] and HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: THE FORMATIVE YEARS [II], published jointly by Edition Arsenal Experimental and Filmgalerie 451.  These two volumes publish, in DVD form, the seven Emigholz films presented in installation versions as part of the FORUM EXPANDED at the Berlin Film Festival in 2010.  More recently, the films of Heinz Emigholz have been the subject of a career retrospective at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2014. Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, of Arsenal Experimental and curator for the Berlinale Forum, writes that Heinz Emigholz's "early films provided a crucial impetus for the international experimental film movement of the 1970s and 80s.  They are counted among the few experimental works from Germany which have attained enduring international acclaim. The project THE FORMATIVE YEARS makes visible and accessible a segment of film history, which, in light of upheavals in the analog world and departures toward a digital one, enables discussion of highly contemporary developments."   In addition to the seven early films contained in THE FORMATIVE YEARS [I] & [II], the two DVDs also provide numerous bonus extras, including two extensive interviews with Emigholz, both filmed in 2009: one by Viennese film publicist Stefan Grissemann; the other by filmmaker Klaus Wyborny specifically about the films in the project THE FORMATIVE YEARS and the context of their production in the 1970's.           "From the beginning to the middle of the seventies, I produced a series of films containing a complicated interplay between abstract temporal compositions - that is, film movements - and selected urban and rural landscapes.  The films ... consist of thousands of photographs, taken frame-by-frame with a Bolex camera on 16mm film according to a previously established score."   - Heinz Emigholz   HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: THE FORMATIVE YEARS [I]   Schenec-tady I (1972/73) Schenec-tady II (1973) Arrowplane (1973/74) Tide (1974) Schenec-tady III (1972/75) DVD-PAL Region 0/No Regional Code. Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling. HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: THE FORMATIVE YEARS [II]   Hotel (1975/76) Demon (1976/77) DVD-PAL Region 0/No Regional Code. Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling.   Watch for our Next DVD Release Newsletter Coming Soon!     These DVDs are currently being made available to universities, libraries, museums, and other educational organizations in North America (US and Canada), and include public performance rights. Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and in other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged. Please Note: Many of our DVDs are published in PAL format Region 0.   PAL DVDs require a PAL or Multi-system DVD player for playback. Order by Phone @ 212.280.8654 or by Fax @ 212.280.8656 For inquiries and to order by e-mail, contact: sales@gartenbergmedia.com For our entire DVD catalogue, please visit: www.gartenbergmedia.com/dvd/

GME Announces Upcoming Releases for 2014

GME DVD Distribution - 2014 New Releases Now that spring is just around the corner, GME is pleased to announce a forthcoming slate of DVD releases for the current academic semester.  Carefully selected from boutique publishers, these DVDs represent works extending from classic silent films through to cutting edge contemporary narratives and avant-garde films.  In the winter 2013 issue of Film Quarterly, editor Ruby Rich wrote that "the superb dedication of such entities as the Criterion Collection, Milestone Films, and Gartenberg Media Enterprises, to name key players, are making possible access to a wealth of cinematic history, ephemera, and value-added materials." A full list of our DVD offerings to date is noted here. UPCOMING RELEASES Watch for our upcoming releases of works by avant-garde masters James Benning, Jonas Mekas, Heinz Emigholz, and Hans Richter, classic Soviet films by Sergei Eistenstein and Dziga Vertov & boxed sets of silent cinema featuring Charlie Chaplin's Mutual Comedies and Mack Sennett's Keystone Comedies! DER BOMBERPILOT / NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI Werner Schroeter THE CURTIS HARRINGTON SHORT FILM COLLECTION  Curtis Harrington EIKA KATAPPA / DER TOD DER MARIA MALIBRAN Werner Schroeter FRENCH MASTERWORKS: RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉS IN PARIS 1923-1929 Ivan Mosjoukine, Alexandre Volkoff, Marcel L'Herbier & Jacques Feyder THE RED LANTERN Albert Capellani, featuring Alla Nazimova SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE Henri Storck HEINZ EMIGHOLZ: THE FORMATIVE YEARS [I] & [II] Heinz Emigholz THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME Wallace Worsley, starring Lon Chaney   JONAS MEKAS: THE MAJOR WORKS Jonas Mekas RECENT FILM RETROSPECTIVES DVD EDITIONS AVAILABLE FROM GME Selected films represented in the DVD boxed set FRENCH MASTERWORKS: RUSSIAN EMIGRES IN PARIS 1923-1929 (published by Flicker Alley) were featured in a "Films Albatros" retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, New York this past December.   Additionally, in May-June 2012, MOMA also held a retrospective of the films of Werner Schroeter, that are featured on the DVD releases from Edition Filmmuseum, EIKA KATAPPA & DER TOD DER MARIA MALIBRAN and DER BOMBERPILOT & NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI. In MOMA's current film exhibition, "Vienna Unveiled: A City in Cinema",  screenings including moving image works by Kurt Kren, VALIE EXPORT, Maria Lassnig, John Cook, and Hans Scheugl, all filmmakers whose work is available from GME via DVD publications from INDEX and Edition Filmmuseum.  These DVD editions include films by Kurt Kren (ACTION FILMS, STRUCTURAL FILMS, and  WHICH WAY TO CA?), VALIE EXPORT (3 EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS and INVISIBLE ADVERSARIES), John Cook, (SLOW SUMMER/CLINCH), Maria Lassnig (ANIMATION FILMS), and Hans Scheugl (THE SECONDS STRIKE REALITY). Furthermore, in March 2013, Anthology Film Archives featured a retrospective of moving image works made by the late Steve Dwoskin, entitled "Kissing the Moon: Films and Videos by Stephen Dwoskin".  GME is proud to offer 2 DVD publications of works by Steve Dwoskin, 14 FILMS BOX 1/3, from DVD publisher Les Films du renard, and DYN AMO, from Re:Voir.     These DVDs are currently being made available to universities, libraries, museums, and other educational organizations in North America (US and Canada), and include public performance rights. Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and in other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged. Please Note: Many of our DVDs are published in PAL format Region 0.   PAL DVDs require a PAL or Multi-system DVD player for playback. Order by Phone @ 212.280.8654 or by Fax @ 212.280.8656 For inquiries and to order by e-mail, contact: sales@gartenbergmedia.com For our entire DVD catalogue, please visit: www.gartenbergmedia.com/dvd/

Gartenberg Media Announces Henri Storck's SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE as Blu-ray / DVD Combo Set Now Available for Institutional Sales

Gartenberg Media Announces Henri Storck's SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE Blu-ray/DVD Combo Now Available for Institutional Sales Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is proud to announce the release of a new title, Henri Storck's SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE, in a 2-Disc Deluxe Combo Blu-ray/DVD Edition, exclusively available for institutional sales in North America. The third in a series of four volumes comprising the Henri Storck Collection, it is published by Cinematek, Belgium, in a joint initiative with the Cinémathèque de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and the Fonds Henri Storck. Henri Storck (Ostend 1907 - Brussels 1999) lived through the whole history of cinema, passing from silent to sound, and from experimental to commercial films.  He is widely recognized as a pioneer of Belgian cinema and a key figure in documentary.  An eyewitness of his times, Storck made socially engaged films, but also poetic and experimental short films, films on art and a fiction feature. His body of work consists of 70 films, including his SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE, composed from 1942 to 1944, and in which he describes the day-to-day life and rituals of peasant farmers and the rhythm of the seasons.  The film is a poem to nature, a lyrical masterpiece on life and death, on plants and animals, on man and his labor, all the more remarkable since Storck made his film under the shadow of the Occupation. SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE complements GME's previous releases in the Henri Storck Collection: IMAGES D'OSTENDE, a collection of Storck's films of his native city of Ostend, of which he was the chronicler and which remained, for him, the Queen of beaches; and MISÈRE AU BORINAGE, which brings together Storck's Social Films, including the 1933 title work co-directed with Joris Ivens, which has become a classic of the "cinema of reality", with which Storck was most closely associated.   Each volume in the series features the premiere of digitally-restored material in a 2-Disc Deluxe Combo Blu-ray/DVD Edition.  SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE / PEASANT SYMPHONY Henri Storck - Belgium (1942-1944) Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling. IMAGES D'OSTENDE / THE OSTEND FILMS Henri Storck - Belgium (1929-1938 / 2004) Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling. MISÈRE AU BORINAGE / THE SOCIAL FILMS Henri Storck & Joris Ivens - Belgium (1933-1938) Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling. Each title is published as a 2-Disc Combo Blu-ray / DVD Edition - The Blu-ray is Region Free (No Regional Code). - The DVD is Region 0 (No Regional Code). Languages: French, Dutch.    Subtitles: Dutch, English. Watch for our Next DVD Release Newsletter Coming Soon in 2014! For our entire DVD catalogue, please visit:  www.gartenbergmedia.com/dvd/ For inquiries and to order by e-mail, contact:  sales@gartenbergmedia.com Order by Phone @ 212.280.8654 or by Fax @ 212.280.8656 Please Note: Many of our DVDs are published in PAL format Region 0. PAL DVDs require a PAL or Multi-system DVD player for playback. These DVD and Blu-ray editions are currently being made available to universities, libraries, museums, and other educational organizations in North America (U.S. and Canada), and include public performance rights.  Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged.

GME Announces Films by Werner Schroeter on DVD Available for Institutional Sales

Gartenberg Media Announces Films by Werner Schroeter Now Available on DVD for Institutional Sales Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is proud to announce the release of two publications featuring the films of Werner Schroeter, published by Edition Filmmuseum.  Each 2-disc set presents new, state-of-the-art restorations by the Munich Film Museum, along with bonus materials and trilingual booklets about Schroeter and his films.  Both PAL-DVD editions are available for institutional sales in North America.   Werner Schroeter's unique melodramas about love and death are fascinating amalgamations of avant-garde opera, theater and cinema elements. Art and kitsch, high- and low-brow, Maria Callas and Caterina Valente, myths and genre elements, all find expression in EIKA KATAPPA & DER TOD DER MARIA MALIBRAN, two melodramas about love and death.  The 2-disc DVD set presents the first two feature-length films by Schroeter in beautifully restored versions. In addition, it offers a portrait of Maria Callas shot by Schroeter on 8mm film in 1968, a new reconstruction of Schroeter's legendary two-screen projection short film ARGILA (1969), and excerpts of a talk with Werner Schroeter, led by Dietrich Kuhlbrodt during the Schroeter Tribute at the Viennale 2008. Werner Schroeter EIKA KATAPPA & DER TOD DER MARIA MALIBRAN   Eika Katappa (1969) West Germany Der Tod der Maria Malibran (1972) West Germany DVD-PAL - Region 0 /  No Regional Code.   Institutional Sale Price: $ 300.00 plus shipping & handling. DER BOMBERPILOT & NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI presents new, restored versions of two rare classics by Werner Schroeter that connect private stories with history: DER BOMBERPILOT tells the story of three eccentric women in Germany during the Nazi period who try to become show stars in America after the war; NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI is a chronicle of post-war Italy told from the perspective of a Neapolitan family. Additional features of the 2-disc DVD set include: a feature length, collage portrait of Werner Schroeter constructed by Gérard Courant,based on an audio interview with Schroeter at the Cannes Film Festival; a video of Werner Schroeter in a talk with the audience at the Austrian Filmmuseum from 1978; and stills from the shooting of NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI by Digne M. Markovicz. Werner Schroeter DER BOMBERPILOT & NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI Der Bomberpilot  (1970)  West Germany Nel Regno di Napoli  (1978)  West Germany   DVD-PAL - Region 0 /  No Regional Code. Institutional Sale Price: $ 300.00 plus shipping & handling.   Watch for our Next DVD Release Newsletter Coming Soon! For our entire DVD catalogue, please visit:  www.gartenbergmedia.com/dvd/ For inquiries and to order by e-mail, contact:  sales@gartenbergmedia.com Order by Phone @ 212.280.8654 or by Fax @ 212.280.8656 Please Note: Many of our DVDs are published in PAL format Region 0. PAL DVDs require a PAL or Multi-system DVD player for playback. These DVD and Blu-ray editions are currently being made available to universities, libraries, museums, and other educational organizations in North America (U.S. and Canada), and include public performance rights.  Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged.