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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
(2011)
(1964)
(2011)
(1999)
(2007)
(2002)Filmography of Kino International (company) (67 films)
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T-Men (1947)
, 1h32Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Faux-monnayeur
Actors Dennis O'Keefe, Alfred Ryder, Wallace Ford, June Lockhart, Charles McGraw, Reed Hadley
The story is about two U.S. Treasury agents who go undercover in an attempt to break a counterfeiting ring.
Titanic (1943)
, 1h25Directed by Herbert Selpin, Werner Klingler
Origin German
Genres Drama, Action, Historical
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, RMS Titanic in fiction, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Kirsten Heiberg, Otto Wernicke, Franz Schafheitlin, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
The film opens with a proclamation to the White Star stockholders that the value of their stocks is falling. The president of White Star Line J. Bruce Ismay promises to reveal a secret during the maiden voyage of the Titanic that will change the fate of the stocks. He alone knows that the ship can break the world record in speed and believes this will raise the stock value. Ismay and the board of the White Star plan to lower the stocks by selling even their own stocks in order to buy them back at a lower price. They plan to buy them back just before the news about the record speed of the ship will be published to the press.
Long Pants (1927)
, 1hDirected by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Harry Langdon, Gladys Brockwell, Alan Roscoe, Ann Christy, Priscilla Bonner, Natalie Kingston
The silent tells the story of Harry Shelby (Langdon) who has been kept in knee-pants for years by his mother. One day, however, Harry finally gets his first pair of long pants.
The Strong Man (1926)
, 1h15Directed by Frank Capra
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Harry Langdon, Priscilla Bonner, Gertrude Astor, William V. Mong, Robert McKim, Arthur Thalasso
Paul Bergot (Harry Langdon) is a Belgian immigrant to the United States who has fallen in love with Mary Brown (Priscilla Bonner), a blind woman. They met as pen-pals when he was fighting in Europe during World War I. Mary even sent Paul a photo of her.
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926)
, 1h2Directed by Frank Capra, Harry Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Actors Joan Crawford, Harry Langdon, Alec B. Francis, Tom Murray, Brooks Benedict
The film tells of Harry (Langdon) a ne'er-do-well who falls in love with Betty, a girl on a billboard (Crawford). Harry participates in a cross country foot race hoping to win prize money in hopes of marrying her.
A Christmas Accident (1912)
, 15minutesDirected by Harold M. Shaw
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Christmas films
Actors Augustus Phillips
Directed by Auguste et Louis Lumière
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Actors Auguste Lumière
Photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers. In the background a bridge can be seen spanning the river. The video covers a group who have assembled in Neuville for the Congress of Photographic Societies. The film was produced in the morning and then screened to the congress that afternoon.