Warren Sonbert's HOLIDAY Plays in Chicago In "Tone Glow Presents Pop Music as Prismatic Utopia"

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Warren Sonbert's HOLIDAY Plays in Chicago In "Tone Glow Presents Pop Music as Prismatic Utopia"

This Friday, April 19th, at 7pm, writer and programmer Joshua Minsoo Kim will screen Warren Sonbert’s FRIENDLY WITNESS in the second film program presented by his experimental music newsletter Tone Glow, titled Pop Music in Prismatic Utopia. The program will play at Chicago’s Sweet Void Cinema, a production company and microcinema located in Humboldt Park. GME is proud to represent the work and legacy of Sonbert, whose films — as evidenced by Kim’s program and a number of other screenings and retrospectives within recent years — have been experiencing a renaissance. FRIENDLY WITNESS, in particular, is a significant title in Sonbert’s oeuvre, as it demarcates his return to sound after many years of making silent montage films.

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Jean-Pierre Melville's BOB LE FLAMBEUR Plays at Film Forum This Month

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Jean-Pierre Melville's BOB LE FLAMBEUR Plays at Film Forum This Month

Now through April 11th, Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1967 French noir LE SAMOURAÏ plays at Film Forum in a new 4K restoration, created from the original 35mm negative by Pathé and The Criterion Collection at L’Immagine Ritrovata. GME distributes Melville’s earlier gangster film, BOB LE FLAMBEUR, on DSL, DVD, and Blu-Ray to the North American university market.

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Dance Theatre of Harlem Celebrates Its 55th Season and the 90th Birthday of Arthur Mitchell

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Dance Theatre of Harlem Celebrates Its 55th Season and the 90th Birthday of Arthur Mitchell

From April 11th to 14th, the Dance Theatre of Harlem will present a festival-style weekend of performances at New York City Center, to honor the legacy of their founder Arthur Mitchell on the occasion of his 90th birthday. Jack Mitchell, whose photography collection GME represents, photographed Arthur Mitchell early in his career. GME was pleased to work in December and January as consultants for Dance Theatre of Harlem’s extensive photography collection.

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Douglas Fairbanks and Benjamin Christensen Films Play at This Year's San Francisco Silent Film Festival

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Douglas Fairbanks and Benjamin Christensen Films Play at This Year's San Francisco Silent Film Festival

At this year’s San Francisco Silent Film Festival — described by eminent critic Leonard Maltin as “a feast for lovers of classic film and live music that is as elaborate, ambitious, and masterfully mounted as any I've seen” — THE BLACK PIRATE (1926) starring silent-era superstar Douglas Fairbanks, will screen, in addition to HAXAN, directed by Danish auteur Benjamin Christensen. This year’s festival begins on April 10th and runs through April 14th, with Fairbanks’ film playing on opening night. GME is proud to distribute, to the North American university market, 11 Fairbanks films in the DVD collection DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS: A MODERN MUSKETEER. GME also distributes two Christensen titles on DVD in the collection BENJAMIN CHRISTENSEN: SEALED ORDERS / BLIND JUSTICE.

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

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

Happy March from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! Today, we’re reflecting on screenings, events, and celebrations from February, 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 French cinema icons Jackie Raynal and Philippe Garrel screened at Anthology Film Archives, while CARRIAGE TRADE, the magnum opus of Warren Sonbert — whose work and legacy GME is proud to represent — returned to the Centre Pompidou 48 years after it was first shown there.

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GME Distributes Films by Marcel Hanoun, Including UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE, Which Plays at Anthology Film Archives This Month

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GME Distributes Films by Marcel Hanoun, Including UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE, Which Plays at Anthology Film Archives This Month

As part of their Essential Cinema series, a collection of films screened on a repertory basis, Anthology Film Archives will show Marcel Hanoun’s UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE (1959) on February 23rd at 6:45pm. GME distributes this title to the North American university market as both a DVD and a DSL file. Additionally, we distribute Hanoun’s OCTOBRE À MADRID (1964) and THE SEASONS (LES SAISONS) (1968-72) on DVD and DSL — the latter being a “quadriptych” made up of Hanoun’s films L’ÉTÉ (1968), L’HIVER (1969), LE PRINTEMPS (1970), and L’AUTOMNE (1972).

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In Celebration of Black History Month, GME Highlights Photographer Hugh Bell and The Kamoinge Workshop

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In Celebration of Black History Month, GME Highlights Photographer Hugh Bell and The Kamoinge Workshop

In 1955, Edward Steichen, then Director of the Photography Department at MoMA, mounted an exhibition of images from around the world as a “manifesto for peace and the fundamental equality of mankind.” That exhibition, titled The Family of Man, quickly became a 20th century cultural phenomenon and was added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World register in recognition of its historical value. “Hot Jazz” (pictured here) by Black photographer Hugh Bell (1927—2012) was selected for this ambitious exhibit. This Black History Month, GME highlights Bell’s impressive body of work (namely his suite of images of Jazz Greats from the 1950s) and his influence on the Kamoinge Workshop.

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Warren Sonbert's Magnum Opus CARRIAGE TRADE Plays at the Centre Pompidou

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Warren Sonbert's Magnum Opus CARRIAGE TRADE Plays at the Centre Pompidou

Today, Warren Sonbert’s film CARRIAGE TRADE — which the artist himself described as his “magnum opus” — will screen at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Sonbert’s film plays in their exhibition A History of Cinema, which “draws an alternative narrative to the dominant cinematic canons and constitutes the founding moment of the Museum’s film collection.” CARRIAGE TRADE is currently distributed on 16mm by the Film-Makers’ Cooperative in New York, Canyon Cinema in San Francisco, and Light Cone in Paris. GME is the custodian of Sonbert’s legacy and proud to represent his significant body of work.

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Composer William Susman Includes His Score for Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER, Distributed by GME, On New Album

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Composer William Susman Includes His Score for Steve Bilich's NATIVE NEW YORKER, Distributed by GME, On New Album

William Susman, who composed the music for Steve Bilich’s 2005 experimental short NATIVE NEW YORKER, included his score for the film on his new album MUSIC FOR MOVING PICTURES, which was released on February 7th. Susman hosted a listening party for the album on Bandcamp on the 5th. NATIVE NEW YORKER is exclusively available, worldwide, from GME, for acquisition and exhibition by cultural organizations, as well as for clip licensing by commercial productions.

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

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

Happy Winter from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! Today, we’re reflecting on screenings, events, and celebrations from January, in New York City and beyond, related to GME colleagues, as well as films and/or filmmakers in our collection that we distribute to the North American university market. Notably, Anthology Film Archives screened a number of titles (by esteemed filmmakers like Sergei Eisenstein and Carl Th. Dreyer) that we currently distribute. Additional screenings of work related to GME and our colleagues appeared at various venues around the globe — ranging from august organizations like the International Film Festival of Rotterdam and The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, to exciting newer festivals like Animation First and Film Diary NYC.

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