March 09, 2020

GME Presents Fall Flashbacks — Fridrikh Ermler’s FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE

March 09, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE (1929) was Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four productively contentious collaborations with the method actor Fiodor Nikitin. He plays a factory worker, Filmonov, who is traumatized by shellshock while serving as a soldier in the Czar’s army during the First World War. He loses his memory and identity for ten years — precisely the period in which the Bolsheviks won their revolution over the Tsarists and began the construction of the new Soviet Union. Ermler’s intention was to show the renewal of the country, the accomplishments of the Soviet system, and the liberation and rebirth of the people through the eyes of Filmanov.

March 05, 2020

Mack Sennett at Biograph Films Screening at MOMA March 6th

March 05, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

Mack Sennett spent his formative years at Biograph, emerging from the ranks of the Griffith stock company to become a regular comic lead and, soon, the primary director of Biograph’s comedy unit. These short, “split-reel” comedies, all from Sennett’s first year as a director, find him developing the broad, frenetic slapstick style that he would bring to his own company, Keystone, in 1912.

February 25, 2020

GME Presents DVD Fall Flashbacks - German Expressionism -- Paul Leni and Richard Oswald

February 25, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

The end of the silent era (1928 and 1929) saw an apotheosis of the art and craft of the motion picture, just as the advent of sound was overtaking the motion picture industry. At a time when film theaters were being wired for sound, studios produced “talkies” that were more stage-oriented. The height of artistic achievement in late-era silent films was visually demonstrated in films emanating from France, Germany, the United States, and the Soviet Union; these countries produced masterworks of sweeping camera movement and rapid-fire montage.

February 19, 2020

GME Presents Fall Flashbacks - Marcel L’Herbier’s L’ARGENT

February 19, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

The end of the silent era (1928 and 1929) saw an apotheosis of the art and craft of the motion picture, just as the advent of sound was overtaking the film industry. At a time when movie theaters were being wired for sound, studios produced “talkies” that were more stage-oriented. The height of artistic achievement in late-era silent films was visually demonstrated in films emanating from France, Germany, the United States, and the Soviet Union; these countries produced masterworks of sweeping camera movement and rapid-fire montage. GME is therefore pleased to present a group of films from these major motion picture producing countries for academic study and appreciation. From France, L’ARGENT (1928) is Marcel L’Herbier’s silent film swan song, a super-production of epic proportions which combines dizzying camerawork with Soviet-era montage techniques

February 12, 2020

‘Mozart in Love’ and the Cinema of Mark Rappaport at Anthology Film Archives through Feb. 18

February 12, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

Rappaport’s visual essay collage films,, ROCK HUDSON’S HOME MOVIES and FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG screen on 2/13 and 2/16 at 7pm and 8:45pm respectively.

February 11, 2020

GME Presents DVD Fall Flashbacks - Mark Rappaport’s Fictional Autobiographies of Rock Hudson and Jean Seberg

February 11, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

Concurrent with Anthology Film Archive’s retrospective of Mozart in Love and the Cinema of Mark Rappaport, GME is pleased to announce two DVD editions of key films from this filmmaker’s oeuvre: ROCK HUDSON’S HOME MOVIES (1992) and FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG (1995). Mark Rappaport has been one of the most original voices of the modern American independent cinema movement.

February 10, 2020

Man Ray Shorts at The Quad series, “From the Vaults: Cohen Film Collection”

February 10, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

Experimenting with cinematic formality, Dada technique, and Surrealist imagery, the short films of avant-garde artist Man Ray would come to form the foundations of Cinéma pur. His looseness and artistic freedom challenge the audience to watch kinetic fragments and images with a more responsible, arguably more perceptive, eye.

February 06, 2020

Curtis Harrington Screening in THE DEVIL PROBABLY: A CENTURY OF SATANIC PANIC series at Anthology Film Archives on Feb. 7th

February 06, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

Anthology Film Archives is presenting THE WORMWOOD STAR (US, 1955) as part of their series The Devil Probably: A Century of Satanic Panic.

February 03, 2020

GME Presents DVD Fall Flashbacks - Robert Todd and Jacques Perconte: From 16mm to Digital

February 03, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

In the experimental realm, we are proud to feature short form moving image works by Robert Todd (1963-2018) and Jacques Perconte (b. 1974). Both of them are master artisans of the landscape film. Todd shot and assembled his movies exclusively in the 16mm analog format, creating abstraction through the play of light and shadow; Perconte works in a digital environment where he manipulates pixels to create abstract effects. These two DVD releases thus serve as companion works for study and appreciation by the academic community.

February 01, 2020

Segundo do Chomon Screening in THE DEVIL PROBABLY: A CENTURY OF SATANIC PANIC series at Anthology Film Archives on Feb. 2nd

February 01, 2020/ Jon Gartenberg

Often compared to Georges Méliès, Segundo de Chomón was a pioneer of early “trick films” that showcased his talent for sophisticated animation techniques and stenciled color. One of his best-known titles, THE RED SPECTRE showcases a series of spectacles performed against a hellish landscape by a Luciferian magician as a competition ensues with an unexpected and equally devilish heroine

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