Gartenberg Media Announces Henri Storck's SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE as Blu-ray / DVD Combo Set Now Available for Institutional Sales

Gartenberg Media Announces Henri Storck's SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE Blu-ray/DVD Combo Now Available for Institutional Sales Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is proud to announce the release of a new title, Henri Storck's SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE, in a 2-Disc Deluxe Combo Blu-ray/DVD Edition, exclusively available for institutional sales in North America. The third in a series of four volumes comprising the Henri Storck Collection, it is published by Cinematek, Belgium, in a joint initiative with the Cinémathèque de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and the Fonds Henri Storck. Henri Storck (Ostend 1907 - Brussels 1999) lived through the whole history of cinema, passing from silent to sound, and from experimental to commercial films.  He is widely recognized as a pioneer of Belgian cinema and a key figure in documentary.  An eyewitness of his times, Storck made socially engaged films, but also poetic and experimental short films, films on art and a fiction feature. His body of work consists of 70 films, including his SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE, composed from 1942 to 1944, and in which he describes the day-to-day life and rituals of peasant farmers and the rhythm of the seasons.  The film is a poem to nature, a lyrical masterpiece on life and death, on plants and animals, on man and his labor, all the more remarkable since Storck made his film under the shadow of the Occupation. SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE complements GME's previous releases in the Henri Storck Collection: IMAGES D'OSTENDE, a collection of Storck's films of his native city of Ostend, of which he was the chronicler and which remained, for him, the Queen of beaches; and MISÈRE AU BORINAGE, which brings together Storck's Social Films, including the 1933 title work co-directed with Joris Ivens, which has become a classic of the "cinema of reality", with which Storck was most closely associated.   Each volume in the series features the premiere of digitally-restored material in a 2-Disc Deluxe Combo Blu-ray/DVD Edition.  SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE / PEASANT SYMPHONY Henri Storck - Belgium (1942-1944) Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling. IMAGES D'OSTENDE / THE OSTEND FILMS Henri Storck - Belgium (1929-1938 / 2004) Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling. MISÈRE AU BORINAGE / THE SOCIAL FILMS Henri Storck & Joris Ivens - Belgium (1933-1938) Institutional Sale Price: $ 200.00 plus shipping & handling. Each title is published as a 2-Disc Combo Blu-ray / DVD Edition - The Blu-ray is Region Free (No Regional Code). - The DVD is Region 0 (No Regional Code). Languages: French, Dutch.    Subtitles: Dutch, English. Watch for our Next DVD Release Newsletter Coming Soon in 2014! For our entire DVD catalogue, please visit:  www.gartenbergmedia.com/dvd/ For inquiries and to order by e-mail, contact:  sales@gartenbergmedia.com Order by Phone @ 212.280.8654 or by Fax @ 212.280.8656 Please Note: Many of our DVDs are published in PAL format Region 0. PAL DVDs require a PAL or Multi-system DVD player for playback. These DVD and Blu-ray editions are currently being made available to universities, libraries, museums, and other educational organizations in North America (U.S. and Canada), and include public performance rights.  Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged.

GME Announces Films by Werner Schroeter on DVD Available for Institutional Sales

Gartenberg Media Announces Films by Werner Schroeter Now Available on DVD for Institutional Sales Gartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is proud to announce the release of two publications featuring the films of Werner Schroeter, published by Edition Filmmuseum.  Each 2-disc set presents new, state-of-the-art restorations by the Munich Film Museum, along with bonus materials and trilingual booklets about Schroeter and his films.  Both PAL-DVD editions are available for institutional sales in North America.   Werner Schroeter's unique melodramas about love and death are fascinating amalgamations of avant-garde opera, theater and cinema elements. Art and kitsch, high- and low-brow, Maria Callas and Caterina Valente, myths and genre elements, all find expression in EIKA KATAPPA & DER TOD DER MARIA MALIBRAN, two melodramas about love and death.  The 2-disc DVD set presents the first two feature-length films by Schroeter in beautifully restored versions. In addition, it offers a portrait of Maria Callas shot by Schroeter on 8mm film in 1968, a new reconstruction of Schroeter's legendary two-screen projection short film ARGILA (1969), and excerpts of a talk with Werner Schroeter, led by Dietrich Kuhlbrodt during the Schroeter Tribute at the Viennale 2008. Werner Schroeter EIKA KATAPPA & DER TOD DER MARIA MALIBRAN   Eika Katappa (1969) West Germany Der Tod der Maria Malibran (1972) West Germany DVD-PAL - Region 0 /  No Regional Code.   Institutional Sale Price: $ 300.00 plus shipping & handling. DER BOMBERPILOT & NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI presents new, restored versions of two rare classics by Werner Schroeter that connect private stories with history: DER BOMBERPILOT tells the story of three eccentric women in Germany during the Nazi period who try to become show stars in America after the war; NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI is a chronicle of post-war Italy told from the perspective of a Neapolitan family. Additional features of the 2-disc DVD set include: a feature length, collage portrait of Werner Schroeter constructed by Gérard Courant,based on an audio interview with Schroeter at the Cannes Film Festival; a video of Werner Schroeter in a talk with the audience at the Austrian Filmmuseum from 1978; and stills from the shooting of NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI by Digne M. Markovicz. Werner Schroeter DER BOMBERPILOT & NEL REGNO DI NAPOLI Der Bomberpilot  (1970)  West Germany Nel Regno di Napoli  (1978)  West Germany   DVD-PAL - Region 0 /  No Regional Code. Institutional Sale Price: $ 300.00 plus shipping & handling.   Watch for our Next DVD Release Newsletter Coming Soon! For our entire DVD catalogue, please visit:  www.gartenbergmedia.com/dvd/ For inquiries and to order by e-mail, contact:  sales@gartenbergmedia.com Order by Phone @ 212.280.8654 or by Fax @ 212.280.8656 Please Note: Many of our DVDs are published in PAL format Region 0. PAL DVDs require a PAL or Multi-system DVD player for playback. These DVD and Blu-ray editions are currently being made available to universities, libraries, museums, and other educational organizations in North America (U.S. and Canada), and include public performance rights.  Public performance rights extend to use in classrooms and other non-commercial settings where no admission is charged.