Kino International Corporation
Publisher
Kino Video
Pub. Date
[1992]
Physical Desc
7 video cassettes (623 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
A collection of twenty individual full length films representative of the British Documentary Film Movement. The films cover the twenty-two year period of British documentary production starting with the works of the E.M.B. (Empire Marketing Group) and continue through the postwar era.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Ultimate 3-disc edition.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (390 min.) : silent, black and white & color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
All of Buster Keaton's classic silent short films in one collection, digitally remastered in high definition.
Publisher
KimStim, Inc
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Breaking of branches is forbidden: A monk orders a young acolyte, who has a fondness for sake, to guard a cherry tree.
Demon: Two brothers, living with their aged mother, go out into the forest to hunt. In the forest, a demon's arm attempts to overpower one of them. They cut off the arm and bring it home, only to find a more horrible fate at home.
Farce anthropo-cynique: A dog race is interrupted by a ringmaster who mistreats the animals. The crowd...
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (414 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The genesis of the motion picture medium is recreated in this collection of the cinema's formative works. More than crucial historical artifacts, these films reveal the foundation from which the styles and stories of the contemporary cinema would later arise.
5) Keaton plus
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 200 min.) : sound and sil., black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Highlights include home movie footage of Keaton in Paris and on the set, scenes from a never-completed Cinemascope musical, excerpts from the rare TV series "Life with Buster Keaton", his first dramatic role, two 1930s shorts, commercials, excerpts from his appearance TV and a newly-restored 1921 short. Film historian John Bengtson has prepared an interactive tour of locations where Keaton's films were shot. An extensive photo gallery reveals family...
Series
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 362 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The two-disc set compiles one and two reel films directed by Griffith during his six-year position with the American Biograph Company, 1908-1913. Having made over 450 shorts before leaving Biograph to make feature films, these works showcase Griffith's early steps towards developing a cinematic language for narrative cinema.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : silent, color tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
"Gabrielle (Helene Hallier), an ambitious by innocent would-be young chorine, trumps a music hall publicity stunt to become the new Parisian nightclub Cinderella."--Back of container.
Publisher
Kino Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
A psychological vivisection of the brutal and senseless murder of a taxi-driver by a young drifter, with no explanation offered and no extenuating circumstances given. A searing, powerful moral indictment of capital punishment.
Series
Publisher
Kino International Corp
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Digitally remastered versions.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Go west (1925, 69 min.): Heeding the expansionist call of Horace Greeley, a hapless young man idealistically hops a freight train to meet his destiny. The scarecrow (1920, 19 min.): Follows the unhealthy competition between roommates vying for the attentions of a young lady. The paleface (1921, 20 min.): Buster helps a Native American tribe defend their land from greedy developers.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A pharmacist's daughter seduced by her father's assistant has a child and is banished to a repressive reform school. Escaping, she makes her way penniless to a brothel where she lives for the moment.
13) The General
Publisher
Kino International Corp
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full-frame.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rejected by the Confederate army and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack), young Johnny Gray (Keaton) is given a chance to redeem himself when Yankee spies steal his cherished locomotive. Johnny wages a one-man war against hijackers, an errant cannon and the unpredictable hand of fate while roaring along the iron rails. "Every shot has the authenticity and the unassuming correct composition of a Mathew Brady Civil War photograph,...
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Polish
Description
Focuses on the lives of two human beings who have been deprived of the gift of love. A young postal worker falls in love with an older woman who lives in the flat opposite his. She attempts to prove to him that "love" is nothing more than a set of biological impulses, as a reaction to his voyeurism, and draws him into a game in which neither is the winner.
15) Prix de beauté
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
While André indeed loves Lucienne, he has conventional expectations for their life together. When the Miss Europe beauty contest comes to town, he warns her to "not even dream" of entering it but she ignores his advice and tries out for the contest.
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Letterboxed édition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
When the dangerously clumsy daughter of a wealthy industrialist disappears from a Mexican resort, an equally clumsy young man is hired to help a top private eye to find her.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (71 min.) : sound, b& and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This series of filmed interviews conducted by filmmaker Volker Schlondörff with acclaimed writer/director Billy Wilder is a lively lesson in filmmaking. Wilder tells hilarious anecdotes and offers keen insights into the craft of moviemaking and frank advice about survival in Hollywood. Filmed over two weeks in 1991.
18) Les comperes
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Letterboxed édition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
When her teenage son runs away and her husband refuses to hunt for him, a frantic mother calls on two old lovers to help. This odd couple makes a hilarious search on the Riviera, bickering and competing as they defeat gangsters and motorcycle toughs to rescue the boy.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
This striking adaptation of the canonical novel by Clarice Lispector tracks the tragicomic ordeals of Macabea during her first days in the megalopolis of Sao Paulo--after emigration from the impoverished north of Brazil.
20) Double take
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 79 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A documentary/fiction hybrid that combines archival footage with cryptic allusions to an imaginary murder plot involving Alfred Hitchcock and his double to create a portrait of American media run amok during the Cold War.