GME Notes with Sadness the Recent Passing of Stanley Crouch

GME Notes with Sadness the Recent Passing of Stanley Crouch

A prolific author, essayist, columnist and social critic, Crouch challenged conventional thinking on race and helped found Jazz at Lincoln Center. He proclaimed himself a “radical pragmatist,” defining it this way:

“I affirm whatever I think has the best chance of working, of being both inspirational and unsentimental, of reasoning across the categories of false division and beyond the decoy of race.”

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Choreographer Trisha Brown's Archive Goes to the New York Public Library

Choreographer Trisha Brown's Archive Goes to the New York Public Library

After an extensive search for the right home, the Trisha Brown Dance Company is placing its founder’s archive — including the Building Tapes and corresponding notebooks, known as the Building Notebooks — at the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

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Filmmakers Represented by GME Screening at 58th New York Film Festival

Filmmakers Represented by GME Screening at 58th New York Film Festival

This year’s NYFF is presenting work by Mexican-Canadian director Nicolás Pereda, German filmmaker Heinz Emigholz, Spanish filmmaker Laida Lertxundi, and Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Running in a concurrent program at Films at Lincoln Center is a revival of the German filmmaking team Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s 1999 tragicomedy Sicilia!

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GME GEM 17 - Dziga Vertov's The Man with a Movie Camera

GME GEM 17 - Dziga Vertov's The Man with a Movie Camera

Gartenberg Media celebrates the excitement of cinema with “The greatest documentary ever made” (Sight & Sound), one of many thrilling HD disk offerings in our extensive distribution catalog of seminal cinematic experiences across the span of film history and aesthetics.

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FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE receives The Peter von Bagh Award at the 2020 Il Cinema Ritrovato DVD Publishing Awards

FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE receives The Peter von Bagh Award at the 2020 Il Cinema Ritrovato DVD Publishing Awards

The text presented with this prestigious award from the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival remarks on “an exceptional presentation of a silent film—a revelatory restoration”, and further, “We applaud the newly composed score by Stephen Horne Frank Bockius and the recreation of Vladimir Deshevov’s original piano music from 1929, as performed by Daan van den Hurk.”

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