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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George Méliès The Witch (La Fée Carabosse ou le Poignard Fatal) Screening at Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival

George Méliès The Witch (La Fée Carabosse ou le Poignard Fatal) Screening at Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival

The 34th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival is presenting George Méliès’s 1906 short THE WITCH (LA FÉE CARABOSSE OU LE POIGNARD FATAL) as part of their 16MM & RECOVERED: PLAAT & MÉLIÈS program on 8/27.

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Gideon Bachmann’s Interviews with Filmmakers Screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival

Gideon Bachmann’s Interviews with Filmmakers Screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival

The 34th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival is presenting three films by Gideon Bachmann in it’s DOCUMENTS AND DOCUMENTARIES: FELLINI, CAVANI, TAVIANI program. Screenings beginning August 25th include “NOW I WILL TELL YOU, AFTER ALL” – FEDERICO FELLINI’S LAST/LOST INTERVIEW (1985), and continue with LILIANA CAVANI: INTERNO BERLINESE (1985), and PAOLO E VITTORIO TAVIANI: GOOD MORNING CINEMA (1987).

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Common to Perform at Democratic National Convention

Common to Perform at Democratic National Convention

Common, as depicted in this photo by Hugh Bell, is among the list of performers that will appear this week at the Democratic National Convention.

GME is also happy to share some of it’s images of historical Democratic party icons as photographed by Raimondo Borea.

GME is also pleased to present a rare audio recording during John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign, which comes from GME’s archive of original campaign commercials for television and radio.

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THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD OF CHARLEY BOWERS NOW STREAMING AS PART OF FILM FORUM'S VIRTUAL CINEMA: REPERTORY PROGRAM

THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD OF CHARLEY BOWERS NOW STREAMING AS PART OF FILM FORUM'S VIRTUAL CINEMA: REPERTORY PROGRAM

A delightful introduction and surprise for most audiences, this collection features newly-restored short comedies by Iowa-born Charley Bowers (1889-1946), a wildly inventive director, comedian, cartoonist, and animator... some might even call him an American surrealist. Mixing live-action with animated puppets and objects, Bowers helmed a score of little-known mini-masterpieces, many starring himself.

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GME Sends Out Belated Birthday Wishes for James Baldwin on his 96th Birthday

GME Sends Out Belated Birthday Wishes for James Baldwin on his 96th Birthday

James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. His essays explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western society, most notably in regard to the mid-twentieth-century United States.

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