Kino Lorber Edu (Firm)
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
"An evening of non-stop laughter." —London Sunday Express.This hilarious farce, which set box office records in London and Paris before coming to Broadway with the inimitable Norman Wisdom as featured player, makes enormous good fun of attempted infidelity and the tangle of misunderstandings which this can—and does—lead to. "What does a sophisticated audience do about this assault on its culture? It rolls in the aisles…the folks just let go,...
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
In a 15th-century feudal village a woman is accused of witchcraft and put to death. Her beautiful older daughter knows that the real reason for the execution lies in the lord's sexual desire for her mother. After confronting the lord on the matter she too is killed. A much younger daughter is spared and taken in by her mother's killers. Once she is of age a horrible deadly plague sweeps the land and she marries the lord's worthless son. Then, during...
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Nicole (Julianne Cote) is adrift after college graduation, working a dead-end summer job in her small Quebec hometown and spending evenings with her best pal, Veronique. When her older brother Remi unexpectedly returns with his bandmates in tow, disrupting the girls' half-baked summer, it becomes clear to Nicole that something must and will change. Shot in luminous black and white and infused with a sultry melancholy, Tu dors Nicole brilliantly captures...
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Winter 1943. Martina is small child, who stopped talking since the death of her infant brother some years before. She lives in a rural area of central Italy. Her mother is pregnant again and Martina lives for the arrival of her new brother. Meanwhile, the war is getting closer and closer, forcing the people of the village to tread a difficult path, torn between the partisan brigades and the Nazi Army. ..On practically the same day as the birth of...
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
An astute mix of classic Italian crime and giallo, Duccio Tessari's Death Occurred Last Night is a dark slow burning murder mystery. A mentally handicapped woman is kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery, sending her distressed father and a jaded police detective on the hunt for clues in Milan's underworld. Tessari (The Bloodstained Butterfly) keeps a tight rein on the action, focusing on the characters and their collective desire for justice and...
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1920.
Language
English
Description
Claire Martin, a diligent American art student studying in Paris, suffers a blow to her head that transforms her into a woman of questionable morals. She then becomes involved with Scott Houghton, an unscrupulous artist who paints a suggestive portrait of her. When Houghton attempts to seduce Claire, she resists and in the struggle strikes her head and is restored to her former personality. Claire returns to America with no recollection of her lurid...
9) Stunt Squad
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
Shopkeepers have been terrorized by a protection racket in Bologna, and the racketeers have found sneaky ways of planting explosives in the businesses of those who won't pay. Police Inspector Grifi (Marcel Bozzuffi, The French Connection) tries to get information from witnesses and criminal informants, but they're all brutally murdered before he makes any headway. Grifi has no choice but to form a special squad -- one not bound by the red tape that...
10) Patch Town
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In North American folklore the stork delivers babies, but in Russian folklore, babies are born in the cabbage patch. Inspired by the award-winning short film of the same name, PATCH TOWN tells the story of Jon (Rob Ramsay), who has lived a sad life as an oppressed worker at a factory where hundreds of cabbage babies are born. Work on the assembly line is a thankless task of shucking, picking, and processing newborns to go out into the world and to...
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Once established as a master of the Euro-erotic horror film, Jess Franco continued to explore more traditional modes of filmmaking, setting familiar genres on their ears with his singular brand of reckless creativity. Made during the living dead craze of the early 1980s, Oasis of the Zombies is one of only a handful of motion pictures to explore a most peculiar subgenre of the movement: the Nazi zombie film...In telling the story of a cache of German...
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Streb and the STREB Extreme Action Company form a motley troupe of flyers and crashers. Propelled by Streb's edict that anything too safe is not action, these daredevils challenge the assumptions of art, aging, injury, gender, and human possibility. Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity traces the evolution of Elizabeth Streb's movement philosophy as she pushes herself and her performers from the ground to the sky. Revealing the passions...
13) The Hidden Blade
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The Hidden Blade concerns Yaichiro, a warrior who must leave his family in the care of two other samurai after he answers a request for his services in another town. Muenezo and Samon do their best to protect the family when they come under attack during Yaichiro's absence.
14) A Hard Day
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Driving back from his mother's funeral, homicide detective Gun-soo runs over a man in a dark rural street. In a moment of desperation, he dumps the body in a coffin alongside his mother. A few days later, Gun-soo flips through a listing of open cases and finds his accident victim. His colleague is on the accident case and is slowly making progress. Making matters worse, a witness steps forward, a detective named Park. For a reason unclear to Gun-soo,...
15) 1001 Grams
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Marie is a scientist who works in the Mass Department of the Norwegian Metrology Service where her father Ernst is director. When Ernst surprisingly falls ill, Marie is asked to go to Paris to recalibrate the National Norwegian kilo and take part in an international seminar where colleagues from around the world discuss new ways of defining the actual weight of a kilo. Through her scientific journey, it is actually her own measurement of disappointment,...
16) Antigone
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
English
Description
Sophocles' immortal tragedy ANTIGONE receives a definitive cinematic interpretation in this 1961 film. In ancient Thebes, Greece, two brothers seeking the throne have slain each other in battle. Their father, King Creon (Manos Katrakis), mandates that one will be properly honored with a burial, while the other is left to rot in the elements. Creon's daughter, Antigone (Irene Papas), goes against her father's wishes and secretly buries her disgraced...
17) Dirty Gertie
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1946.
Language
English
Description
A femme fatale leaves New York to escape an old boyfriend and establishes herself on the island of Trinidad.
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
Salvator Cangemi is a produce purveyor in Milan, Italy, but he also runs a profitable twin business moonlighting as a pimp. The appearance of a ruthless and greedy French gangster called Le Capitaine threatens Totos livelihood. Le Capitaine wants to unite the organized crime in Milan and take a large share of the profits for himself. Toto wants no part in Le Capitaines plan and wants to continue quietly running his own low-key ring, but no one says...
19) Of Men and War
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Shot over five years, OF MEN AND WAR gives perhaps the most in-depth look at the recovery efforts of veterans suffering from PTSD. Through unprecedented access to their lives at home and intensely vivid footage of some therapy sessions, director Laurent Becue-Renard unveils the gripping, upsetting reality that is the daily life of most war veterans...OF MEN AND WAR takes place at The Pathway Home, founded by veteran therapist Fred Gusman in Yountville,...
20) Within Our Gates
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1920.
Language
English
Description
In this early silent film from pioneering director Oscar Micheaux, kindly Sylvia Landry (Flo Clements) takes a fundraising trip to Boston in hopes of collecting 5,000 dollars to keep a Southern school for impoverished black children open to the public. She then meets the warmhearted Dr. Vivian (William Smith), who falls in love with Sylvia and travels with her back to the South. There, Dr. Vivian learns about Sylvia's shocking, tragic past and realizes...