Dziga Vertov’s THREE SONGS OF LENIN, Presented by Alex Ross, Screening at MoMA through July 18th

Dziga Vertov’s THREE SONGS OF LENIN, Presented by Alex Ross, Screening at MoMA through July 18th

Alex Ross, longtime New Yorker music critic and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, introduces Dziga Vertov’s THREE SONGS OF LENIN (1934/38), commemorating the publication of his revelatory new book “Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music” (Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2020).

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DVD/DSL BUNDLES AND DOWNLOADABLE FILES AVAILABLE FROM GME STREAMLINE

DVD/DSL BUNDLES AND DOWNLOADABLE FILES AVAILABLE FROM GME STREAMLINE

As a reminder about GME's initial foray into the distribution of approximately 100 digital site licenses (DSL) available for films in our catalog, whether as DVD/DSL bundles or directly downloadable HD DSL files from our server, we present the following selection of inital GME Streamline offerings. Many more titles will soon become available from GME Streamline in both formats, in addition to new titles reflecting our recent partnership with Kino Lorber, new artists to be announced this fall, and additional resources from various, international boutique publishers.

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BuzzFeed News Celebrates LGBTQ History During Pride Month with Photos by Hugh Bell

BuzzFeed News Celebrates LGBTQ History During Pride Month with Photos by Hugh Bell

Hugh Bell, born and raised in Harlem, was an American photographer of Caribbean descent. He became most well-known in the 1950s for his photographs of jazz musicians. Bell also influenced a generation of photographers, most notably of the Kamoinge Workshop. In the 1980s and 1990s, Bell photographed Gay Culture, creating stylish portraits of individuals and couples in both candid and posed moments of self-expression. Particularly noteworthy was his singular effort to depict African-Americans who participated in these celebrations, which include Gay Pride, Wigstock, and the Greenwich Village Halloween parades.

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MARTIN SCORSESE'S NO DIRECTION HOME: BOB DYLAN (2005) SCREENING AT NETFLIX'S PARIS THEATER

MARTIN SCORSESE'S NO DIRECTION HOME: BOB DYLAN (2005) SCREENING AT NETFLIX'S PARIS THEATER

Scorses’s chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star is running in the BOB DYLAN FILM SERIES at New York’s Paris Theater June 5-6, along with Scorsese’s ROLLING THUNDER REVUE: A BOB DYLAN STORY and THE LAST WALTZ. GME provided footage from Jonas Mekas’ films to acclaimed director Martin Scorsese for this Peabody Award-winning portrait of Bob Dylan, originally released on PBS in 2005.

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