Kino International (company)

Kino International

Industry	Film
Founded	1977
Founder	Bill Pence
Headquarters	New York City, New York, United States
Products	Motion pictures
Website	kinolorber.com

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:

• Farewell Herr Schwarz (2014)
• 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)
• Cabiria (1914)

Kino Lorber Studio Classics

• 52 Pick-Up
• Abraham Lincoln
• Across 110th Street
• At the Earth's Core
• Avenging Force
• Bank Shot
• Barquero
• Battleship Potemkin
• Big House, U.S.A.
• Billion Dollar Brain
• The Birth of a Nation
• Black Sabbath
• Bloody Mama
• Blown Away
• Breakheart Pass
• Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
• Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
• Burn, Witch, Burn
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Cast a Giant Shadow
• Cherry 2000
• The Children's Hour
• College
• Coming Home
• Cops and Robbers
• Cotton Comes to Harlem
• The Couch Trip
• Cult of the Damned
• Curse of the Crimson Altar
• Deranged
• Desperately Seeking Susan
• Diary of a Lost Girl
• Diggstown
• Drum
• Elmer Gantry
• The Emerald Forest
• Enter the Ninja
• The Falcon and the Snowman
• Face to Face
• Fear and Desire
• The First Great Train Robbery
• The First Power
• F.I.S.T.
• Flesh + Blood
• Foreign Intrigue
• Foxes
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• F/X
• F/X2
• Gator
• Harry in Your Pocket
• He Ran All the Way
• Hero and the Terror
• Hickey & Boggs
• The Hitch-Hiker
• The House of 1,000 Dolls
• Invitation to a Gunfighter
• The Island of Dr. Moreau
• The January Man
• Jennifer
• Juggernaut
• Kings of the Sun
• Last Embrace
• Late for Dinner
• Life Stinks
• The Long Goodbye
• Madhouse
• Malice
• Man of the West
• Married to the Mob
• Marty
• The McKenzie Break
• Meteor
• Miracle Mile
• The Missouri Breaks
• The Monster That Challenged the World
• More Dead Than Alive
• Mr. Majestyk
• Mulholland Falls
• The Naked Face
• Navajo Joe
• The Navigator
• Needful Things
• Nosferatu
• The Offence
• On the Beach
• The Organization
• The Package
• Paris Blues
• The Party
• The Penalty
• Planet of the Vampires
• Pocketful of Miracles
• The Premature Burial
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
• The Quatermass Xperiment
• Real Men
• Report to the Commissioner
• Revenge of the Ninja
• River of Death
• River's Edge
• Run Silent, Run Deep
• Running Scared
• The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming
• Sabata
• Sam Whiskey
• The Saphead
• The Scalphunters
• Separate Tables
• Seven Chances
• Still of the Night
• Storm Fear
• The Stranger
• Strike
• Sugar Hill
• Tales of Terror
• Taras Bulba
• Ten Seconds to Hell
• They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
• Thieves Like Us
• To All a Goodnight
• Topkapi
• Truck Turner
• True Confessions
• Under Fire
• The Unforgiven
• Viva Maria!
• War Gods of the Deep
• Way Down East
• What's New Pussycat?
• The White Buffalo
• White Lightning
• The Wicked Lady
• Witness for the Prosecution
• Witness to Murder
• Woman of Straw
• X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
• The Young Savages

External links

• Official website