New James Benning Documentary Playing at NYFF

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New James Benning Documentary Playing at NYFF

On Sunday, October 8th, and Monday, October 9th, 2023, James Benning’s new film ALLENSWORTH will screen at the New York Film Festival in the Currents section. Benning remains one of our most significant, formalist avant-garde filmmakers, and GME is proud to be the sole distributor of his films to the North American university market. Currently available from GME as both DVDs and DVD/DSL bundles are Benning’s films 11 X 14, ONE WAY BOOGIE WOOGIE, 27 YEARS LATER (1977-2012), GRAND OPERA (1979), AMERICAN DREAMS (LOST & FOUND) (1984), O PANAMA (1985), LANDSCAPE SUICIDE (1986), DESERET (1995), FOUR CORNERS (1997), his CALIFORNIA TRILOGY (1999-2001), CASTING A GLANCE (2007), RR (2007), NATURAL HISTORY (2009), and RUHR (2014).

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Dominic Angerame Program at SF's Roxie This Saturday

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Dominic Angerame Program at SF's Roxie This Saturday

This Saturday, October 7th, 2023, nine short works by filmmaker, theorist, and avant-garde activist Dominic Angerame will screen at San Francisco’s Roxie in a program titled The Soul of Cinema. GME is proud to distribute nine of Angerame’s “city symphonies” in the collection CITYSCAPES, which is available to the North American university market as both a DSL file and physical DVD.

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Today is International Silent Movie Day!

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Today is International Silent Movie Day!

Today, September 29th, has been established by an international group of film archivists as Silent Movie Day! Head to the DVD Distribution section of our website and learn about the myriad International Silent Classics in our catalogue, currently available for institutional rental or acquisition in North America.

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Eduardo Darino Retrospective Playing at the Film-Makers' Cooperative

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Eduardo Darino Retrospective Playing at the Film-Makers' Cooperative

Eight films by legendary filmmaker and animator Eduardo Darino will play at the Film-Makers’ Cooperative on Friday, September 29th, at 7pm, to celebrate Darino’s six-decade career. GME associate Matt McKinzie curated and will present this program. GME highlights the work of Darino’s contemporaries, similarly groundbreaking Latin American moving image artists, in the must-have collection CINE A CONTRACORRIENTE: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE OTHER LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA.

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Man Ray and Abel Gance Films To Screen at NYFF 61

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Man Ray and Abel Gance Films To Screen at NYFF 61

At this year’s New York Film Festival, presented by Film at Lincoln Center and playing in New York City from September 9th to October 15th, 2023, films by Man Ray and Abel Gance will screen in the Revivals section, which spotlights “important works from renowned filmmakers that have been digitally remastered, restored, and preserved with the assistance of generous partners.” GME distributes on DVD, with Re:Voir Video, to the North American university market, Ray’s RETURN TO REASON and EMAK-BAKIA in the eight-film collection CINÉMA DADA. GME is also proud to distribute Gance’s LA ROUE on DVD, to the North American university market, in conjunction with Flicker Alley. GME additionally distributes Gance’s J’ACCUSE (1919) on DVD with the same label.

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Light Industry Presents An Evening with Donna Kerness

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Light Industry Presents An Evening with Donna Kerness

This Saturday, September 23rd, 2023, at 7:30pm, our friends at Light Industry are showing three films starring the legendary Donna Kerness, including Mike Kuchar’s SINS OF THE FLESHAPOIDS. GME distributes this title to the North American University market on DVD. GME also distributes several films by Marie Losier, who was directly inspired by the work of Mike Kuchar and his brother, George.

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Ida Lupino's HARD, FAST, AND BEAUTIFUL to Screen at MoMI

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Ida Lupino's HARD, FAST, AND BEAUTIFUL to Screen at MoMI

Tomorrow, September 17th, 2023, at 12:30pm, trailblazing director Ida Lupino’s 1951 psychodrama HARD, FAST, AND BEAUTIFUL will screen at the Museum of the Moving Image as part of their ongoing series Queens on Screen. Lupino is a key filmmaker in GME’s collection. We distribute to the North American university market, on Blu-Ray, DVD, and DSL, the director’s 1949 polio drama NEVER FEAR, as well as her nail-biting noir from 1953, THE HITCH-HIKER.

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Karel Doing and Sigfried Fruhauf Films Play at SF Cinematheque's Crossroads Festival

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Karel Doing and Sigfried Fruhauf Films Play at SF Cinematheque's Crossroads Festival

From September 8th to September 10th, 2023, films by Karel Doing and Sigfried Fruhauf played at the Crossroads Film Festival at the San Francisco Cinematheque! GME distributes two of Doing’s early works, 1993’s LICHTAJAREN and 1999’s ENERGY ENERGY, in the collection STUDIO EEN: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS FROM THE LOWLANDS. GME also distributes Fruhauf’s NIGHT SWEAT in the collection VISIONARY: CONTEMPORARY SHORT DOCUMENTARIES AND EXPERIMENTAL FILMS FROM AUSTRIA, as well as the artist’s 9-minute short film from 2001, EXPOSED.

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Summer 2023 Roundup of Screenings Related to GME's DSL, DVD, & Blu-ray Offerings

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Summer 2023 Roundup of Screenings Related to GME's DSL, DVD, & Blu-ray Offerings

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.

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Jean-Luc Godard and Rose Lowder Films Play at TIFF

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Jean-Luc Godard and Rose Lowder Films Play at TIFF

This month, films by Rose Lowder and Jean-Luc Godard are playing at the Toronto International Film Festival! GME distributes, to the North American university market, five films by Lowder (spanning 1978 to 1995) in a collection titled BOUQUET D’IMAGES. GME also distributes, on Blu-Ray, DVD, and DSL, Godard’s 1965 wonder ALPHAVILLE.

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