April 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

April 2024 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

Happy May from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! Today, we’re reflecting on screenings, events, and celebrations from April, in New York City and beyond, related to GME colleagues, as well as titles and/or artists in our collection that we distribute to the North American university market. Notably, films by Warren Sonbert and Jean-Pierre Melville played at Sweet Void Cinema and Film Forum, respectively. GME also highlighted Hugh Bell’s portraits of jazz legends for International Jazz Day, and reflected on Jack Mitchell’s photos of dancer and choreographer Arthur Mitchell, founder of Dance Theatre of Harlem, on the occasion of DTH’s festival-style weekend of performances at New York City Center.

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GME Highlights Work by Asian Filmmakers We Distribute on Digital Formats

GME Highlights Work by Asian Filmmakers We Distribute on Digital Formats

GME is expanding its international distribution reach and is thrilled to incorporate works by Asian filmmakers, including Lav Diaz (Philippines), Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan), and Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand). These films span narrative and experimental modalities and are available to the North American university market in digital formats.

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4K Restoration from the 35mm original negative of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI Streaming in Film Forum's Virtual Cinema: Repertory Program Starting November 20th

4K Restoration from the 35mm original negative of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI Streaming in Film Forum's Virtual Cinema: Repertory Program Starting November 20th

Bathed in the golden glow of oil lamps and wreathed in an opium haze, Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI (1998, 113 minutes) traces the romantic intrigues, jealousies, and tensions swirling around a 19th century Shanghai brothel, where the courtesans are ensconced in opulent splendor, yet forced to work to buy back their freedom. Among the regular clients is Tony Leung Chiu-wai's taciturn Master Wang, whose relationship with longtime mistress Michiko Hada is agitated by a perceived act of betrayal. Composed in a procession of long takes, FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI evokes a vanished world of decadence and cruelty, an insular universe where much of the action remains tantalizingly offscreen.

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Filmmakers Represented by GME Screening at 58th New York Film Festival

Filmmakers Represented by GME Screening at 58th New York Film Festival

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!

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Hou Hsiao-hsien's THREE TIMES at Film at Lincoln Center series 50th Mixtape: Free Double Features on September 5th

Hou Hsiao-hsien's THREE TIMES at Film at Lincoln Center series 50th Mixtape: Free Double Features on September 5th

This rapturously beautiful 2005 feature by Hou Hsiao-hsien is a triumph about the melancholy play of time and memory. The action is broken into three different love stories, each set in a different era—a 1966 pool hall, a prosperous 1911 brothel, and contemporary Taipei—but starring the same leads, the impossibly glamorous Shu Qi and Chang Chen.

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