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Gartenberg Media confronts the heat with this “missing link of American independent cinema” that Richard Brody of The New Yorker calls a “tense, myth-drenched drama of liberation and retribution.”
Read MoreGME is pleased to announce the a special free stream for the month of July of this humorous glimpse at what happens every morning on the wavy sidewalks of Copacabana beach, as conceived by Vivian Ostrovsky, a citizen of the world who has made films in Brazil, France, Israel, Japan, the Soviet Union and the United States.
Read MoreThis photo for the cover of The Shangri-Las debut album from 1965 is one of many commercial photos by Hugh Bell, whose photographs appeared on dozens of album covers throughout the period. They primarily featured jazz artists, including Sarah Vaughn, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt, Cannonball Adderly, Houston Person, Bill Hardman, Larry Coryell, and the Nat Dixon Quartet. Director Nagy included this cover in her upcoming Roadside Attractions release CALL JANE, starring Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, and Kate Mara, about a 1960s housewife (Banks) who joins the Jane Collective to fight for women's rights as she struggles to cope with her need for an abortion during a time of limited social or political support.
Read MoreJon, David and Fred recently visited Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running exhibition at the Jewish Museum to experience the multi-screen experience of this major filmmaking and cultural figure, who is also a central artist in GME’s collection.
Read MoreBroadway theaters have always been named for giants of the stage—including, to name a few, Eugene O’Neill, George and Ira Gershwin, and Neil Simon. Historically, however, few Black artists have received this honor. Now, in a historic first, a Broadway theater will be named for a Black woman: singer and actress Lena Horne.
Read MoreNANOOK OF THE NORTH premiered 100 years ago at the Capitol Theater in New York City, on June 11 1922. The film’s unprecedented commercial success inspired a century of documentary filmmaking. On the centennial anniversary of NANOOK OF THE NORTH, The Flaherty invites viewers and scholars of the film to consider the complex legacy of NANOOK OF THE NORTH in settler-colonial as well as indigenous cultures.
Read MoreThis recent screening series (June 17-19) paid tribute to the work and legacy of Dore O., one of Germany’s most influential and pioneering experimental filmmakers, who tragically passed away in early March 2022. The series also marked the announcement of the publication “Figures of Absence. The Films of Dore O.” (ed. Masha Matzke), which will be released in English by archivebooks in late 2022.
Read MoreGERMAINE DULAC: CINEMATIC SENSATIONS AT THE HOUSE OF DREAMS presents nearly 30 films by Germaine Dulac, feminist, socialist and avant-garde pioneer of the 1920s. The two most famous, the impressionist LA SOURIANTE MADAME BEUDET (1923), with its heroine with modern tastes confined to a bourgeois marriage, and LA COQUILLE ET LE CLERGYMAN (1927), the first surrealist film in history, conceived as an essay on the rhythm, have durably transformed the cinematographic landscape.
Read MoreJean-Louis Trintignant, a leading French actor of subtle power who appeared in some of the most celebrated European films of the last 50 years, among them Bernardo Bertolucci’s THE CONFORMIST, Eric Rohmer’s MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S and Claude Lelouch’s A MAN AND A WOMAN, passed away recently at his home in southern France. He was 91.
Read MoreJean Genet ’s 1959 play, THE BLACKS, uses the framework of a play within a play, to expose racial prejudice and stereotypes while exploring black identity. It was the longest-running Off-Broadway non-musical of the 60s and was photographed by Hugh Bell.
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