GME Shares Martin Scorsese's Reminiscences of the NYC Indie Film Scene in the 1960s

GME Shares Martin Scorsese's Reminiscences of the NYC Indie Film Scene in the 1960s

Martin Scorsese reflects on his formative years as a film student and NYC, discovering “the excitement of a new kind of cinema” being made in New York and shown at the legendary Bleecker Street Cinema. Accompanied by scenes of the Bleecker Street Cinema filmed by Warren Sonbert.

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Philippe Garrel's THE SALT OF TEARS (2019) Streaming from Film Forum

Philippe Garrel's THE SALT OF TEARS (2019) Streaming from Film Forum

“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.”

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Gideon Bachmann's UNDERGROUND NEW YORK streaming from Cineteca di Bologna through 1/17

Gideon Bachmann's UNDERGROUND NEW YORK streaming from Cineteca di Bologna through 1/17

Cineteca 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.

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