GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS TWO ADDITIONAL WARREN SONBERT FILMS FROM THE 1960’S AS DOWNLOADABLE DSL FILES

GME STREAMLINE PRESENTS TWO ADDITIONAL WARREN SONBERT FILMS FROM THE 1960’S AS DOWNLOADABLE DSL FILES

For the first time ever, GME Streamline is pleased to announce the release in digital format of 2 Warren Sonbert films from 1967, THE TENTH LEGION and THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL. This complements our previous release of Sonbert’s first three films, all from 1966: AMPHETAMINE, WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO?, and HALL OF MIRRORS. All five titles are now available via Digital Site Licenses as downloadable digital files. These films encompass Sonbert’s extant sound films from the 1960’s – the era of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. All of these early films of Warren Sonbert are now available for acquisition as DSL files for the North American university community, as well as for international exhibition.

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Peter Tscherkassky’s TRAIN AGAIN Screening at Lincoln Center's Art of the Real Showcase

Peter Tscherkassky’s TRAIN AGAIN Screening at Lincoln Center's Art of the Real Showcase

GME distributed found footage filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky returns to Film at Lincoln Center with a propulsive investigation of the twinned histories of cinema and trains, splicing and superimposing historical images of locomotion in a collage of jarring mechanical and rhythmic power. TRAIN AGAIN (Austria, 2021, 20 min, 35mm) is screening with Thai filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong’s feature COME HERE at 9pm on Tuesday, April 5th.

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GME NOTES THE CENTENNIAL OF JONAS MEKAS'S BIRTH, OFFERS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES OF HIS FILMS

GME NOTES THE CENTENNIAL OF JONAS MEKAS'S BIRTH, OFFERS DIGITAL SITE LICENSES OF HIS FILMS

Coinciding with the centennial of his birth, Film at Lincoln Center and The Jewish Museum in New York, are mounting (beginning this week) screenings and exhibitions dedicated to the life, art and legacy of Jonas Mekas's 70-year career. GME is concurrently celebrating the legacy of Mekas’s storied filmmaking career. In addition to the DVD editions of The Films of Jonas Mekas that GME has long distributed to our institutional buyers, we have recently also made available high quality downloadable .mp4 files of his films for digital site licenses (DSL) to our university clientele, including the recent release of REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA (1972) (included in 3 JOURNEYS TO LITHUANIA).

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GME Partners wtih FI:AF to Present Félix Dufour-Laperrière's NY Premiere of ARCHIPELAGO

GME Partners wtih FI:AF to Present Félix Dufour-Laperrière's NY Premiere of ARCHIPELAGO

Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s ARCHIPELAGO offers a contemplative and poetic travelogue along the St. Lawrence River. It expands into a semi-fictional odyssey through the filmmaker’s native province: Quebec, captured in surprising, creative animation using a wide range of techniques. It is an imaginary documentary — linguistic, political, real and dreamt.

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Jay Rosenblatt's WHEN WE WERE BULLIES Nominated for Academy Award for Best Short Documentary

Jay Rosenblatt's WHEN WE WERE BULLIES Nominated for Academy Award for Best Short Documentary

WHEN WE WERE BULLIES begins with a mind boggling "coincidence" from 25 years ago which ultimately leads the filmmaker to track down his 5th grade class (and 5th grade teacher) to see what they remember of a bullying incident from 50 years ago. In a playful yet poignant way, he begins to understand his complicity and the bully in all of us.

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RECAP OF FALL GME STREAMLINE DIGITAL SITE LICENSES RELEASES

RECAP OF FALL GME STREAMLINE DIGITAL SITE LICENSES RELEASES

Through GME Streamline this past season we have presented limited, free streams of select titles, including Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER, Peter Tscherkassky's OUTER SPACE, and Leopold Lindtberg's SWISS TOUR. We are currently streaming TATITUDE (2009, 4 Minutes), by Vivian Ostrovsky from her collection PLUNGE. These films are representative samples of the recently added Re:voir and Index Edition collections and single title releases now available through GME Streamline and GME DVD and Blu-ray distribution. Collectively, they constitute a wealth of cinematic history that we now make available as DVD/DSL bundle releases and direct HD digital file downloads.

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Erich von Stroheim's BLIND HUSBANDS Screening in MoMA's To Save and Project Series

 Erich von Stroheim's BLIND HUSBANDS Screening in MoMA's To Save and Project Series

A tale of seduction in the South Tyrol Alps (the Vienna-born Stroheim hones his signature role of the “dirty Hun”), Blind Husbands was a remarkable success with critics and the public alike, a cynical portrait of modern marriage that pits continental wit and eroticism against priggish moralizing. This restoration of Erich von Stroheim’s directorial debut brings us closer to the original 1919 version than ever thought possible.

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Warren Sonbert Movie Still Promotes Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler Series at Filmoteca de Catalunya

Warren Sonbert Movie Still Promotes Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler Series at Filmoteca de Catalunya

A retrospective screening of the films of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler (curated by Francisco Algarin and Carlos Saldaña) is taking place at the Filmoteca de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain) on January 14 and 15, 2022. To announce the exhibition on the Filmoteca’s website, a film frame of the two filmmakers at a rewind table is featured from Warren Sonbert’s THE TENTH LEGION (1967), which will be released by GME for the first time in a 1080 HD digital format this winter.

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Letters by Warren Sonbert and Other Filmmakers Whose Works are Distributed by GME Included in "Correspondencias: Cartas Como Peliculas" Published by La Fabrica

Letters by Warren Sonbert and Other Filmmakers Whose Works are Distributed by GME Included in "Correspondencias: Cartas Como Peliculas" Published by La Fabrica

In Correspondencias : Cartas como películas, many of these letters do not only reveal secret friendships (Louis Lumière and George Méliès), but also unknown collaborations (Orson Welles and Robert J. Flaherty) or projects, which without these letters would have remained undocumented (Maya Deren’s idea of making a film about the circus, Pasolini’s proposal to Jacques Tati to participate in Porcile); other letters mark the end of a collaboration (Marguerite Duras, proposing a script to Alain Resnais, who after being rejected, would go on to film it herself). Other correspondences asking for help at times of creative confusion (Paul Sharits to Stan Brakhage, Stan Brakhage to Hollis Frampton, Gregory Markopoulos to Stan Brakhage); they document major historical moments (the War in the case of F. W. Murnau or Robert J. Flaherty, the political situation in Indonesia, Italy or France in the case of Joris Ivens, Pasolini or Truffaut), they appear like the chronicles of a journey (S. M. Eisenstein, Chick Strand and Ron Rice from Mexico, Warren Sonbert from Morocco, Resnais from Hiroshima, Ivens from Australia, Peter Hutton from Germany, Murnau from Latvia, Allen Ginsberg from India) or even greet other poets (like the letters-gift from Eric Rohmer, Anne-Marie Miéville or Chris Marker).

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Films by Hans Richter and Man Ray Screening in MoMA Carte Blanche: Adam Pendleton Series

Films by Hans Richter and Man Ray Screening in MoMA Carte Blanche: Adam Pendleton Series

In the film series Carte Blanche, in conjunction with his exhibition Who Is Queen? at the Museum of Modern Art , Adam Pendleton brings together a diverse selection of moving-image works, probing the relationships between subjectivity, Blackness, abstraction, and the avant-garde, including films by Hans Richter and Man Ray distributed by GME.

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