GME News
With the end of summer fast approaching, GME returns from our seasonal hiatus to recap a slew of exciting screenings that happened between June and August, in New York City and beyond, featuring films and/or filmmakers in our collection that we distribute to the North American university market.
Read MoreCo-presented with the Museum of Sex, and introduced by Sean Price Williams, TIMES FOR (1970, featuring performance artist and filmmaker Carolee Schneemann) depicts an unfulfilled man who renders himself to the unrealized sensuality of four women. In his drifting search he fails and fades in the same loneliness as the women. The film is the reality and a metaphor for the intensities of sexual experience. “… His camera is a never-static instrument of his intrusion into the fantasy/reality of the relationships he is dealing with and forming …. TIMES FOR is one of the few erotic masterpieces.” –Program note, National Film Theatre, London
Read More“Masterpiece of masterpieces!” (Jonathan Rosenbaum), LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (France, 1961), directed by Alain Resnais, with a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet, “is a sustained mood, an empty allegory, a choreographed moment outside time, and a shocking intimation of perfection.” (J. Hoberman). A hypnotically beautiful puzzle box of a film, LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD is one of the most influential in the history of cinema.
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 More“Philippe Garrel, a prodigy of the French cinema (whose work was first included in the New York Film Festival in 1970, when he was twenty-two), has developed a spare method, a self-imposed classicism of dramatic intimacy… [THE SALT OF TEARS] rises very high with its fusion of brusque candor and unspoken yearnings…feels like a revisitation of the austerities, aspirations, and humiliations of an earlier age, a return to primordial experiences and artistic ambitions… The film also happens to have one of the best dance scenes in the recent cinema.”
Read MoreCineteca di Bologna presents Gideon Bachmann’s UNDERGROUND NEW YORK (1968) in it’s program The Rediscovered Cinema | Outside the Hall. In this indecipherable period, where cinemas are closed for the first time since 1895, the Cineteca di Bologna is bringing its most precious experience into everyone's homes, that of The Cinema Ritrovato, the largest festival in the world dedicated to the history of cinema.
Read MoreGME is pleased to add two new DVD editions of films by Philippe Garrel –- LA CICATRICE INTÉRIEURE (1972) and L’ENFANT SECRET (1979) -- to four other digital publications of this auteurist’s films that we previously have presented for academic study and research. Garrel began making movies at age sixteen, fired by a mythopoetic vision and a political fervor that crested and crashed in May ’68, whose turmoil he filmed in the long-lost, newly discovered ACTUA 1 (1968) and decades later re-created from memory in LES AMANTS REGULIERS (2005).
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 MoreLearn more about 2019 Il Cinema Ritrovato – DVD Awards recipients L'ENFANT SECRET (Philippe Garrel) and THE MAN WHO CHEATED HIMSELF (Felix E. Feist) currently offered by GME.
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