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Kino International (company)

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Foundation date 1 january 1977

Kino International is a film and video distributor, founded by Bill Pence in 1977. Donald Krim bought Kino just months after its founding and served as president of the company until his death from cancer in 2011. Kino, based in New York City, specializes in art house films, such as low-budget current films, classic films from earlier periods in the history of cinema, and world cinema. Similar in many respects to The Criterion Collection, the home video releases by Kino are usually restored versions with substantial supplementary material.

Kino's theatrical arm handles theatrical distribution of much of the Janus Collection, and has a focus on recent art house and foreign films. Their non-theatrical arm has more of a focus on classic cinema, providing silent film classics which are otherwise difficult to find. They are the largest video distributor of silent films, including a great many from the early days of cinema (before 1914). These include important early landmark films by Thomas Edison, Georges Méliès, the Lumière brothers and D.W. Griffith. Many of those were restored by David Shepard's Film Preservation Associates.

In 2009, Kino International merged with Lorber HT Digital to form Kino Lorber. Kino International remains that company's imprint for world cinema titles, as well as American independents, documentaries, international classics, and silent cinema. The other Kino Lorber imprints are Lorber Films, Alive Mind, and Knitting Factory Entertainment.

Films released by Kino International include:



Winnebago Man (2010)
Dogtooth (2009)
Ajami (2009)
Harvard Beats Yale (2008)
Ballast (2008)
Love Comes Lately (2007)
Lady Chatterley (2006)
Slippin': Ten Years with the Bloods (2005)
Kippur (2000)
Funny Games (1997)
Happy Together (1997)
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993)
Putney Swope (1969)
Andrei Rublev (1966)
Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)
Munchhausen (1943)
M (1931)
The Threepenny Opera (1931)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
Metropolis (1927)
The General (1926)
Faust (1926)
The Last Laugh (1924)
The Hands of Orlac (1924)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
The Finances of the Grand Duke (1924)
Our Hospitality (1923)
Nosferatu (1922)
The Haunted Castle (1921)
Intolerance (1915)

Best films

The Well Digger's Daughter
The Well Digger's Daughter
(2011) Topkapi
Topkapi
(1964) 5 Broken Cameras
5 Broken Cameras
(2011) Himalaya
Himalaya
(1999) Beaufort
Beaufort
(2007) Amen.
Amen.
(2002)
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Filmography of Kino International (company) (67 films)

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Production

Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster (2013)
, 1h37
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about cities
Actors Drew Struzan, Harrison Ford, Guillermo del Toro, George Lucas, Michael J. Fox, Frank Darabont

The documentary features interviews with a number of people, including Struzan himself, his wife, Dylan Struzan, his son, Christian Struzan, directors Steven Spielberg, Guillermo del Toro and George Lucas, and actors Harrison Ford and Michael J. Fox. The film follows Struzan's career painting movie posters for films such as Star Wars, The Thing, Back to the Future, the Indiana Jones franchise, and the Harry Potter franchise.

Distribution

Computer Chess
Computer Chess (2013)
, 1h32
Directed by Andrew Bujalski
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about computing, Jeu, Sports films, Films about chess
Actors Wiley Wiggins

In 1980, an annual gathering of teams of idiosyncratic nerds compete in a nondescript California hotel to see which of their computer programs can best the others at computer chess. A grandmaster (Gerald Peary) presides as master of ceremonies with a videographer and microphone in tow. Clunky, primitive personal computers are carted from room to room. Bad haircuts, dorky shirts, “birth control glasses”, and other social impedimenta are ubiquitous. Bull sessions on the dystopian possibilities of artificial intelligence are pursued. The Pentagon's interest in the goings-on is intimated. The only female geek (Robin Schwartz) in attendance is repeatedly hailed and “welcomed” by the MC.
Memphis
Memphis (2013)
, 1h19
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals

A singer drifts through Memphis city on a journey of self-discovery.
Kumaré
Kumaré (2012)
, 1h24
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about religion, Documentary films about religion
Actors Purva Bedi

Un documentaire sur un homme qui se fait passer pour un sage gourou indien et construit une suite en Arizona. Au sommet de sa popularité, le Gourou Kumaré doit révéler sa véritable identité à ses disciples et dévoiler son plus grand enseignement de tous.
All Together
All Together (2012)
, 1h36
Directed by Stéphane Robelin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Jane Fonda, Daniel Brühl, Geraldine Chaplin, Pierre Richard, Claude Rich, Guy Bedos

Jean (Bedos) is a romantic revolutionary, yet enjoys the spoils of a bourgeois lifestyle with his wife, Annie (Chaplin). Annie is a retired psychologist, who complains about not being able to see enough of her children and assorted grandchildren. Albert (Richard) is showing increasing signs of dementia; his energetic American wife Jeanne (Fonda) is a former university lecturer who is suffering from cancer but who assures her husband that she is cured, yet shops for a brightly-colored coffin.
Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet
Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet (2012)
, 1h27
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Films about disabilities

The film documents Becker's rise to near-stardom, following him from the first time he touched a guitar as a five-year-old to when he was drafted into The David Lee Roth Band as lead guitarist at the age of 19. In 1990, this was considered perhaps the most coveted rock guitar gig on the planet, as Becker would be following in the footsteps of acclaimed guitarists Eddie van Halen and Steve Vai, both of whom played with David Lee Roth as lead guitar player. It was shortly after that Becker was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, more popularly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and given just 3 to 5 years to live. Becker was able to finish the recording of Roth's third full-length studio album A Little Ain't Enough but was unable to make the tour due to his physical decline.
The Well Digger's Daughter
The Well Digger's Daughter (2011)
, 1h47
Directed by Daniel Auteuil
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Pregnancy films, La provence
Actors Daniel Auteuil, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Kad Merad, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Nicolas Duvauchelle

Jacques Mazel, the son of a wealthy merchant, and Patricia Amoretti, daughter of a well-digger, live in a small village in the Provence region of France while Europe is at the brink of World War I. She has just turned 18 and is smitten with the handsome Jacques when he carries her across a stream to bring lunch to her father who is digging a well. After their second encounter Jacques, a French Air Force pilot, is unexpectedly reassigned. He must leave immediately to replace a pilot who recently broke his leg. Because he cannot meet Patricia as planned the next morning, he leaves an explanatory letter for her but his overly protective mother burns the letter. Patricia concludes Jacques rejected her because they come from different social classes. Later, Patricia discovers that Jacques has left her with child. The parents of Jacques reject the idea that their son conceived a child out of wedlock and refuse to acknowledge the baby. Her father, who had idolized her, sends Patricia to live with his sister in another village to spare his four other daughters from learning of the illegitimate child. Patricia declines an offer of marriage from her father's friend, Félipe, partly because her younger sister, Amanda, has a crush on him. Eventually, Jacques, who was thought to have been shot down by the Germans, returns from a POW camp and learns he has a son.
5 Broken Cameras
5 Broken Cameras (2011)
, 1h34
Origin Israel
Genres Drama, War, Documentary, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about films, Films about religion, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Documentary films about films

There are five cameras — each with its own story. When his fourth son, Gibreel, is born in 2005, self-taught cameraman Emad Burnat, a Palestinian villager, gets his first camera. At the same time in his village of Bil’in, the Israelis begin bulldozing village olive groves to build a barrier to separate Bil'in from the Jewish Settlement Modi'in Illit. The barrier's route cuts off 60% of Bil'in farmland and the villagers resist this seizure of more of their land by the settlers.
Winnebago Man
Winnebago Man (2010)
, 1h25
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Documentary
Themes Films about computing, Documentary films about technology
Actors Alan Berliner, Keith Gordon, Mike Mitchell

The documentary starts with Steinbauer's obsession with a widely circulated viral video featuring outtakes from an RV commercial shoot, centered on a cantankerous pitchman who regularly becomes outraged and flustered, cursing in colorful mannerisms. Steinbauer researches the video, and discovers that it had been circulating on VHS long before it appeared on the Internet.
American Mystic
American Mystic (2010)
, 1h20
Origin USA
Genres Documentary

The documentary follows three young people, each a member of a fringe religious community, who have chosen to make their spiritual practice the center of their lives.