LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD Showing in ALAIN RESNAIS 100 Series at Film Forum

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LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD Showing in ALAIN RESNAIS 100 Series at Film Forum

“Masterpiece of masterpieces!” (Jonathan Rosenbaum), LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (France, 1961), directed by Alain Resnais, with a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet, “is a sustained mood, an empty allegory, a choreographed moment outside time, and a shocking intimation of perfection.” (J. Hoberman). A hypnotically beautiful puzzle box of a film, LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD is one of the most influential in the history of cinema.

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GME NOTES WITH SADNESS THE PASSING OF FILM LEGEND JEAN-LOUIS TRINTIGNANT

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GME NOTES WITH SADNESS THE PASSING OF FILM LEGEND JEAN-LOUIS TRINTIGNANT

Jean-Louis Trintignant, a leading French actor of subtle power who appeared in some of the most celebrated European films of the last 50 years, among them Bernardo Bertolucci’s THE CONFORMIST, Eric Rohmer’s MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S and Claude Lelouch’s A MAN AND A WOMAN, passed away recently at his home in southern France. He was 91.

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RECAP OF THE SPRING GME STREAMLINE DSL & GME DVD/BLU-RAY RELEASES

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RECAP OF THE SPRING GME STREAMLINE DSL & GME DVD/BLU-RAY RELEASES

This semester, Gartenberg Media has presented a number of new selections on the GME Streamline section of our website for the distribution of films and videos, now available as Digital Site Licenses (DSL), exclusively to the academic community for the streaming of moving image works via the university’s own intranet or closed circuit network, in order to further enrich curricula as well as for library and research use.

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GME PRESENTS DOUGLAS SIRK'S THE TARNISHED ANGELS ON BLU-RAY

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GME PRESENTS DOUGLAS SIRK'S THE TARNISHED ANGELS ON BLU-RAY

This complements GME’s distribution of other key genre films, directed by such filmmakers as Ida Lupino, Richard Fleischer, and Curtis Harrington. Sirk was one of the major directors of melodrama during the 1950s, including MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION, ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, WRITTEN ON THE WIND, IMITATION OF LIFE. Based on a novel by William Faulkner (Pylon), THE TARNISHED ANGELS evokes depression-era New Orleans, enhanced by glorious black-and-white CinemaScope photography, Sirk's riveting chronicle of personal obsession, romantic longing and irreconcilable desires is one of the most noteworthy films to emerge from 1950s Hollywood.

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THE WOMEN BEHIND HITCHCOCK SERIES AT FILM FORUM THRU AUG. 19TH

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THE WOMEN BEHIND HITCHCOCK SERIES AT FILM FORUM THRU AUG. 19TH

Film Forum’s THE WOMEN BEHIND HITCHCOCK series presents thirty-one films on which Hitchcock collaborated with the most important and influential women during his career, most notably, his wife Alma Revile (variously in the roles of story editor, film editor, assistant director, and screenwriter), and producer and screenwriter, Joan Harrison.

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MoMA Presents Finger in the Dike Productions: An Evening with Ken Jacobs, Aug. 5

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MoMA Presents Finger in the Dike Productions: An Evening with Ken Jacobs, Aug. 5

The Museum of Modern Art recognizes more than 50 years of support for experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs with an expansive presentation in the Sculpture Garden including THE WHIRLED (1956–63) and the world premiere of ABSTRACT ETERNALISM (2021), with otherworldly explorations of paintings by Joan Mitchell and Jackson Pollock in the intercises. The screening also celebrates GME’s distribution partner Kino Lorber’s release of THE KEN JACOBS COLLECTION, a Blu-ray box set of 13 works, including MoMA’s own digital restoration of TOM TOM THE PIPER’S SON (1969).

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DOWNLOADABLE DSL FILES OF KINO LORBER TITLES AVAILABLE FROM GME STREAMLINE

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DOWNLOADABLE DSL FILES OF KINO LORBER TITLES AVAILABLE FROM GME STREAMLINE

At the end of 2020 GME was proud to announce a new, exclusive partnership with the renown theatrical and home video distributor Kino Lorber in order to make available to the North American university market a premiere selection of moving image titles from across the span of film history. When GME Streamline was soon after developed, we were able to expand our announcement to include the availability of downloadable HD DSL files of canonical works across the span of motion picture history.

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DVD/DSL BUNDLES AND DOWNLOADABLE FILES AVAILABLE FROM GME STREAMLINE

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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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RECAP OF GME STREAMLINE DIGITAL SITE LICENSES AND STREAMED CONTENT FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN ACADEMIC COMMUNITY

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RECAP OF GME STREAMLINE DIGITAL SITE LICENSES AND STREAMED CONTENT FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN ACADEMIC COMMUNITY

This semester, Gartenberg Media introduced GME Streamline, a new section on GME's website for the distribution of films and videos that we are now making available as Digital Site Licenses (DSL), in addition to the occasional presentation of viewable streams on Streamline's title pages. We are offering this service exclusively to the academic community for the streaming of moving image works via the university’s own intranet or closed circuit network, in order to further enrich curricula as well as for library and research use.

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Recapping GME's Announcement of it's Exclusive Partnership with Kino Lorber to Distribute Classic Films as Digital Site Licenses to the North American Educational Market

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Recapping GME's Announcement of it's Exclusive Partnership with Kino Lorber to Distribute Classic Films as Digital Site Licenses to the North American Educational Market

As spring settles in, GME would like to remind you of its exclusive partnership with the renowned theatrical and home video distributor Kino Lorber, in order for a premiere selection of moving image classics to be made available as Digital Site Licenses for the North American university market.

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