Kino International (company)
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Industry | Film |
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Founded | 1977 |
Founder | Bill Pence |
Headquarters | New York City, New York, United States |
Products | Motion pictures |
Website | www |
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. In 2009, Kino International merged with Lorber HT Digital to form Kino Lorber.
History[]
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[citation needed], including a great many from the earliest 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.[1]
In 2009, Kino International merged with Lorber HT Digital to form Kino Lorber.[2] 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. Kino has also produced home-video releases of all of the cartoons in the Pink Panther cartoon series as well as its spinoffs, such as The Inspector and The Ant and the Aardvark.
In 2017, Kino Lorber announced a distribution partnership with the Australian preschool band The Wiggles for DVDs in the United States and Canada.[3]
Films released by Kino International[]
- Test Pattern (2021)
- Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (2020)
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2020)
- Babylon (2019)[4]
- Stretch (2014)
- Farewell Herr Schwarz (2014)
- The Wiggles series (2013-2018)
- Winnebago Man (2010)
- Loren Cass (2009)
- Dogtooth (2009)
- Ajami (2009)
- Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2008)
- Ballast (2008)
- Love Comes Lately (2007)
- Crossing the Line (2006) [5]
- Lady Chatterley (2006)
- Slippin': Ten Years with the Bloods (2005)
- Swept Away (2002)
- Kippur (2000)
- Fallen Angels (Re-release 2010)
- Funny Games (1997)
- Happy Together (1997)
- Saint Clara (1996)
- The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993)
- Roxanne (1987)
- Modern Girls (1986)
- Scene of the Crime (1986)
- S.O.S. Titanic (1979)
- David (1979)
- Swept Away (1974)
- Charley Varrick (1973)
- Dad's Army (1971)
- Brother John (1971)
- Putney Swope (1969)
- Andrei Rublev (1966)
- One, Two, Three (1961)
- Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)
- M (1951)
- The Reckless Moment (1949)
- The Dark Past (1948)
- Titanic (1943)
- Munchhausen (1943)
- Reefer Madness (1936)
- The Struggle (1931)
- M (1931)
- The Threepenny Opera (1931)
- Abraham Lincoln (1930)
- Spite Marriage (1929)
- Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
- The Cameraman (1928)
- Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
- Metropolis (1927)
- The General (1926)
- Faust (1926)
- Seven Chances (1925)
- The Navigator (1924)
- Sherlock Jr. (1924)
- The Last Laugh (1924)
- The Hands of Orlac (1924)
- The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
- The Finances of the Grand Duke (1924)
- Our Hospitality (1923)
- Three Ages (1923)
- Nosferatu (1922)
- The Haunted Castle (1921)
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
- Intolerance (1916)
- The Birth of a Nation (1915)
- Cabiria (1914)
References[]
- ^ "Kino Lorber - Experience Cinema" – via www.kinolorber.com.
- ^ Theilman, Sam (2009-12-09). "Kino Intl., Lorber HT Digital merge". Retrieved 2012-02-07.
- ^ Grassullo, Stephanie (2017-09-20). "The Wiggles Names Jacqueline Vong Head of North American Licensing". Retrieved 2017-12-05.
- ^ Kay, Jeremy (18 January 2019). "Cult British reggae film 'Babylon' to get first ever US release". Screen Daily. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
- ^ "Crossing the Line". Kino Lorber. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
External links[]
- Film distributors of the United States