Kino Lorber (Firm)
81) The Boat
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1921.
Language
English
Description
Buster and his family go on a voyage on his homemade boat that proves to be one disaster after another.
83) Day Dreams
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1922.
Language
English
Description
A sincere young man leaves his home to win his fortune so he can marry his home town sweetheart.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This documentary portrait of theater operator Nicolas “Nick” Nicolaou moves from 1970s Times Square adult film houses through decades of city regulation, chain takeovers, and cultural shifts, charting a charming odyssey through the history of film exhibition and New York City. Abel Ferrara traces the life and work of friend and fellow cinephile Nicolas “Nick” Nicolaou, a Cypriot immigrant who began working as a teenager in small neighborhood...
85) Colliding Dreams
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This documentary recounts the dramatic history of one of the most controversial, and urgently relevant political ideologies of the modern era. The century-old conflict in the Middle East continues to play a central role in world politics. And yet, amidst this fierce, often-lethal controversy, the Zionist idea of a homeland for Jews in the land of ancient Israel remains little understood and its meanings often distorted. COLLIDING DREAMS addresses...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Students at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts confront their new president’s underhanded attempt to shut down the school. In the process, they discover that a powerful institution is bullying their inexperienced administration into giving up the independence of one of the most innovative colleges in the United States. This raucous ode to democracy in action will invoke viewers with the courage required to stand up to power.
88) Quality Street
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
QUALITY STREET is a 1927 MGM silent film based on the 1901 play by James M. Barrie which starred Barrie favorite Maude Adams. The film starred Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel and was directed by Sidney Franklin. Prints of this film are preserved at the Library of Congress and in the Turner Archive.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
GOOD TIMES, WONDERFUL TIMES was Rogosin’s plea for humanity against war and fascism. For two years, the intrepid director traveled to twelve different countries to collect footage of atrocities from their historical archives, interspersing these harrowing images with scenes of a London cocktail party. Released at the height of the Vietnam War, Rogosin's fourth film quickly became one of the great anti-war films of the era.
90) Winter Soldier
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
English
Description
In February 1971, one month after the revelations of the My Lai massacre, a public inquiry into war crimes committed by American forces in Vietnam was held at a Howard Johnson motel in Detroit. The Vietnam Veterans Against the War organization launched the "Winter Soldier Investigation," wherein over 125 veterans spoke of atrocities they had witnessed and committed. Though the event was attended by press, almost nothing was reported to the American...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by family, friends, and notebooks from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain, he talked about his life and work, his abiding sense of wonder at the natural world, and the place of human beings within it. Drawing on these deeply personal reflections, as well...
92) The Playhouse
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1921.
Language
English
Description
After waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This documentary follows the prolific Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke (*A Touch of Sin, Ash is the Purest White*) on a walk down memory lane, as he revisits his hometown and other locations used in creating his ever-growing body of work. At each location, they visit Jia's family, friends, and former colleagues, and their conversations range from his mother's tales of him as a young boy to amusing remembrances of school days and film shoots to memories...
95) Applause
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Danish
Description
Critically acclaimed alcoholic actress Thea Barfoed has gone through turmoil, resulting in a divorce and the loss of custody of her two boys. Eager to break with the past, regain control over her life and get her children back, she uses charm and manipulation to persuade her ex husband, Christian, that she is able to take back the mantle of motherhood; but ironically, she has not completely convinced herself. On stage, Thea plays "Martha", the aggressive...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
All of our country’s biggest public health challenges—from COVID-19 to the opioid crisis to gun violence to behavioral health and lack of insurance—collide in emergency departments. Nearly half of all medical care in the U.S. is delivered in E.D.s and nurses are on the frontlines of that care, addressing our physical and emotional needs and sending us back out into the world. IN CASE OF EMERGENCY is a documentary that follows emergency nurses...
98) One Week
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1920.
Language
English
Description
A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.
99) Pacmen
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
PACMEN is the first film to document the inside workings of a Super-PAC, taking us behind the scenes to answer one of the lingering questions of America’s strangest election…why did Ben Carson run for president? This observational documentary follows the men behind the Super-PACs that drafted Dr Carson to run.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time. Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, and she brings all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. Stan Brakhage called Maya Deren “the mother of us all.” The history of avant-garde film is unthinkable without her.