GME News
This year’s NYFF is presenting work by Mexican-Canadian director Nicolás Pereda, German filmmaker Heinz Emigholz, Spanish filmmaker Laida Lertxundi, and Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Running in a concurrent program at Films at Lincoln Center is a revival of the German filmmaking team Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s 1999 tragicomedy Sicilia!
Read MoreGartenberg Media celebrates the excitement of cinema with “The greatest documentary ever made” (Sight & Sound), one of many thrilling HD disk offerings in our extensive distribution catalog of seminal cinematic experiences across the span of film history and aesthetics.
Read MoreThe text presented with this prestigious award from the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival remarks on “an exceptional presentation of a silent film—a revelatory restoration”, and further, “We applaud the newly composed score by Stephen Horne Frank Bockius and the recreation of Vladimir Deshevov’s original piano music from 1929, as performed by Daan van den Hurk.”
Read MoreThe 34th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival is presenting Germaine Dulac’s LA FÊTE ESPAGNOLE (THE SPANISH FESTIVAL, 1920) and LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI (THE BEAUTIFUL LADY WITHOUT MERCY, 1921) August 28 & 29.
Read MoreThe 34th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival is presenting George Méliès’s 1906 short THE WITCH (LA FÉE CARABOSSE OU LE POIGNARD FATAL) as part of their 16MM & RECOVERED: PLAAT & MÉLIÈS program on 8/27.
Read MoreThe 34th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival is presenting three films by Gideon Bachmann in it’s DOCUMENTS AND DOCUMENTARIES: FELLINI, CAVANI, TAVIANI program. Screenings beginning August 25th include “NOW I WILL TELL YOU, AFTER ALL” – FEDERICO FELLINI’S LAST/LOST INTERVIEW (1985), and continue with LILIANA CAVANI: INTERNO BERLINESE (1985), and PAOLO E VITTORIO TAVIANI: GOOD MORNING CINEMA (1987).
Read MoreA delightful introduction and surprise for most audiences, this collection features newly-restored short comedies by Iowa-born Charley Bowers (1889-1946), a wildly inventive director, comedian, cartoonist, and animator... some might even call him an American surrealist. Mixing live-action with animated puppets and objects, Bowers helmed a score of little-known mini-masterpieces, many starring himself.
Read MoreGartenberg Media wishes the best for our university colleagues in these trying times. Due to the sudden advent of remote teaching beginning in March, we decided to suspend our announcement of our spring semester DVD releases until the fall of 2020. Nevertheless we are fully prepared to fulfill prospective orders to the academic community from our entire catalog of more than 200 titles. For a complete list of our DVD/Blu-ray titles and pricing, please click here. There are live links from each title to its individual web page description. We thought this listing would be helpful for university librarians who need to expend their budgets before the end of this academic year in May, as well as for professors anticipating teaching material for their fall curricula.
Read MoreAs March draws to a close, GME feels it is important to pay tribute to Women Filmmakers from our catalogue of digital moving image publications. The role of women filmmakers has been generally overlooked in the writing of film histories. In order to rectify these omissions in the field of academic film studies, GME is proud to distribute significant moving image works created by female artists in DVD format.
Read MoreDuring this semester, Gartenberg Media Enterprises has offered an extensive slate of new DVD and Blu-ray publications for distribution to the North American academic community. These digital editions were selected from film archives and boutique publishers worldwide, and represent the entire breadth and depth of moving image history. They encompassed trick films by George Méliès, dating from the 1890s, through to 21st Century experimental filmmakers working in both France and the United States, including Jacques Perconte, Jeff Scher, and Robert Todd.
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