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Country: U.S.
Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves (1926–2014) was also the director of over 100 documentary films, the majority focused on African... More
Country: U.S.
Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer's Day features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of... More
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Country: Argentina
Richard Wright adapts and stars in this film version of his watershed novel about a poor African-American man on trial for murder. Too controversial for Hollywood, Native Son was filmed in Buenos... More
Country: U.S.
Set in a mining town in the 1880s, Thousand Pieces of Gold tells the real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a young Chinese woman whose desperately poor parents sell her into slavery.... More
Country: China
Shanghai's past and present flow together in Jia Zhangke's poetic and poignant portrait of this fast-changing port city. More
Country: Hungary
Ildikó Enyedi’s fairytale-like, unconventional ironic film luminaire was awarded the Camera d'Or at Cannes in 1989. On the eve of the 20th century, two twin girls, Lili the anarchist and... More
Country: France
Cult icon Serge Gainsbourg wrote, directed, and scored this tale of doomed love between a lonely truck stop waitress (Jane Birkin) and a hunky garbage truck driver (Joe Dallesandro), whose boyfriend... More
Country: Poland, U.S.
Too often segregated within an academic and cultural niche, Yiddish cinema is in fact a varied and vibrant genre ripe for reappraisal. Whether shot in the fields of Poland or makeshift studios in... More
In the mid-1930s, when the Production Code tightened the leash on Hollywood’s Depression-era decadence, cagey entrepreneurs stepped in to fill the void, producing independent features on... More
Country: U.S.
Remembered as one of the most nightmarish motion pictures of the 1950s, Ida Lupino's THE HITCH-HIKER remains the only classic film noir directed by a woman. Inspired by the true-life murder spree of... More
Country: U.S.
In Ida Lupino's directorial debut Not Wanted, young and naive "unwed mother" Sally Forrest's life spirals out of control after her musician beau (Leo Penn) ditches her for an out-of-town gig, despite... More
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Country: U.S.
Carol Williams is a beautiful young dancer whose body, and promising career, is suddenly crippled by polio. Carol’s dance partner and fiancé, Guy Richards, wants to see her through her... More
Country: U.S.
Edmond O'Brien, Joan Fontaine and Ida Lupino star in this sympathetic portrait of an ordinary salesman whom circumstances force into the arms of two women; an upper-crust lady and a tough-talking... More
Celebrate the centenary of Hollywood trailblazer Ida Lupino with newly-restored versions of three of the director’s films: Not Wanted (1949), The Hitch-Hiker (1953) and The Bigamist (1953). More
Country: Mexico
Repo Man director Alex Cox went south of the border to film this dramatic tale of a rookie member of Mexico’s national highway patrol, who struggles to keep on the straight and narrow in a... More
This important collection of new 2K and 4K restorations shines a light on the contributions of women filmmakers in shaping the language of early cinema. Includes work by Lois Weber,... More
Country: Italy
Kino Lorber is proud to bring to U.S. theaters this touring series featuring restorations of seven films by the first woman every nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, plus Valerio... More
Country: Italy
An anarchically outrageous comedy from Lina Wertmüller, ALL SCREWED UP is ripe for rediscovery, an accomplishment as impressive as the classics she made before and after: Love and Anarchy (1973)... More
Kino Lorber Repertory presents new DCPs of the complete American Film Theatre series, comprising 14 films! With many films now transplanted to the Broadway stage and vice versa, it is easy to forget... More
