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Kino Lorber
Kino Lorber is an international film distribution company based in New York City. Founded in 1977, it was originally known as Kino International until it was acquired by and merged into Lorber HT Digital in 2009. It specializes in art house films, such as documentary films, classic films from earlier periods in the history of cinema, and world cinema. In addition to theatrical distribution, Kino Lorber releases films in the home entertainment market and has its own streaming services for its digital library. History 1977–2008; Founding as Kino International Kino Lorber was founded as Kino International in 1977 by Bill Pence. It was then purchased by Donald Krim who at the time worked for United Artists as the head of the nontheatrical department. It began by importing and releasing international films that may have not otherwise reached the market in the United States. One of the first films imported under Krim was ''Ballad of Orin''. In 1977, the company acquired rights to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes
''The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'' is a 1970 DeLuxe Color film in Panavision written and produced by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, and directed by Wilder. The film offers an affectionate, slightly parodic look at Sherlock Holmes, and draws a distinction between the "real" Holmes and the character portrayed by Watson in his stories for '' The Strand'' magazine. It stars Robert Stephens as Holmes and Colin Blakely as Doctor Watson. Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the creators and writers of the BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning series '' Sherlock'', credited ''The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'' as a source of inspiration for their show. Michael Hardwick and Mollie Hardwick authored a novelization of the film. Plot The film is divided into two separate, unequal stories. In the first and shorter of the two, in August 1887 Holmes is approached by Rogozhin, on behalf of a famous Russian ballerina, Madame Petrova. Madame Petrova is about to retire, and wishes to have a chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winnebago Man
''Winnebago Man'' is a 2009 American documentary film directed by Ben Steinbauer. The film follows the Internet phenomenon created by a series of twenty-year-old outtakes from a Winnebago sales video featuring profane outbursts from a salesperson named Jack Rebney. Originally intended as an inside joke, the video spread across the globe—first on VHS, and then via YouTube and other online video sites, earning the salesman the title of "The Angriest Man in the World". The documentary explores the story of the clips' origins and how, two decades later, it affects the reluctant star. Steinbauer released a short film ''Extraordinarily Unusual: Surprising the Winnebago Man'' in 2017, documenting his return to visit Rebney on his 87th birthday, bringing some of Rebney's old friends to celebrate. Synopsis The documentary starts with Steinbauer's obsession with a widely circulated viral video featuring outtakes from an RV commercial shoot, centered on a cantankerous pitchman, Jac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wiggles
The Wiggles are an Australian children's music group formed in Sydney in 1991. The group are currently composed of Anthony Field, Lachlan Gillespie, Simon Pryce and Tsehay Hawkins, as well as supporting members Evie Ferris, John Pearce, Caterina Mete and Lucia Field. The Wiggles were founded in 1991 by Field, Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Greg Page and Phillip Wilcher. Wilcher left the group after their first album. Page retired in 2006 due to ill health and was replaced by understudy Sam Moran, but returned in 2012, replacing Moran. At the end of 2012, Cook, Fatt and Page retired and were replaced by Gillespie, Pryce and Emma Watkins. Cook and Fatt retained their shareholding in the group and all three continued to have input into its creative and production aspects. Watkins departed the group in 2021, with Hawkins taking her place. Field and Fatt were members of the Australian pop band the Cockroaches in the 1980s, and Cook was a member of several bands before meeting Fiel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farewell Herr Schwarz
, director = Yael Reuveny , producer = Melanie Andernach , writer = Yael Reuveny , starring = Peter Schwarz, Etty Reuveny, Oded Reuveny, Yael Reuveny, Uwe Schwarz , narrator = Yael Reuveny , music = Hauschka , cinematography = Andreas Köhler , editing = Nicole Kortlüke, Assaf Lapid , production_companies = Black Sheep Film Productions, Made in Germany Filmproduktion , distributor = Kino Lorber , released = , runtime = 96 minutes , country = Germany, Israel , language = English, German, Hebrew , budget = , gross = $4,400 ''Farewell Herr Schwarz'' ( (lit. "snow from yesterday"), he, היה שלום פטר שווארץ (''Farewell Peter Schwarz'')) is a 2014 German–Israeli documentary film by Yael Reuveny, in her directorial debut. In it she attempts to answer for herself and her family why her great-uncle, a Holocaust survivor, chose to resettle in East Germany afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stretch (2014 Film)
''Stretch'' is a 2014 American comedy crime film written and directed by Joe Carnahan and starring Patrick Wilson, Ed Helms, James Badge Dale, Brooklyn Decker, Jessica Alba, and Chris Pine. Wilson portrays the title character, a struggling limousine chauffeur who finds his life in danger after he picks up a mysterious millionaire (Pine). The film was originally scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on March 21, 2014. However just a month prior to the date, Universal Pictures pulled it from their schedule, before eventually distributing it on video on demand on October 14, 2014. Plot A man nicknamed Stretch is thrown out of his car after a traffic accident in which the other driver, Candace, ignores a red light. Miraculously uninjured, he confronts Candace, only to fall instantly in love with her. A year later, Stretch is inspired to give up his addictions to cocaine and gambling. As Stretch considers proposing to her, Candace abruptly breaks up with him. Hurt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babylon (1980 Film)
''Babylon'' is a 1980 British drama film directed by Franco Rosso. Written by Franco Rosso and Martin Stellman (''Quadrophenia''), and shot by two-time Academy Award winner Chris Menges (''The Killing Fields''), ''Babylon'' is an incendiary portrait of racial tension and police brutality set in Brixton, London. The film, anchored by Dennis Bovell’s propulsive score, is partly based on Bovell’s false imprisonment for running a Jamaican sound system, Sufferer’s Hi Fi, in the mid-70s. Produced by Gavrik Losey and the National Film Finance Corporation, the film is regarded as a classic. Plot ''Babylon'' follows a young reggae DJ ( Brinsley Forde, M.B.E., frontman of the British group Aswad) of the Ital 1 Lion sound system in Thatcher-era South London as he pursues his musical ambitions while also battling fiercely against the racism and xenophobia of employers, neighbours, police, and the National Front. Cast Production ''Babylon'' was filmed on the streets of Deptford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Test Pattern (film)
''Test Pattern'' is a 2019 American drama film directed, written, and co-produced by Shatara Michelle Ford (in her feature directorial debut). The film stars Brittany S. Hall, Will Brill, Gail Bean, and Drew Fuller. It follows an interracial couple whose relationship is put to the test after a black woman is sexually assaulted and her white boyfriend drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit. ''Test Pattern'' had its premiere at the 8th BlackStar Film Festival on August 4, 2019 and was released by Kino Lorber on February 19, 2021. The film received positive reviews from critics. Among other accolades, it was nominated for three Gotham Awards and three Independent Spirit Awards. Summary Renesha Bell is a beautiful black woman who, while out with her friends, is approached by Evan, a white man who asks for her number. Evan is a tattoo artist while Renesha works in the corporate world. They nevertheless hit it off and quickly fall in love. Evan inspires Renesha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahed's Knee
''Ahed's Knee'' ( he, הַבֶּרֶךְ, translit=Habereḵ, translation=The Knee) is a 2021 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Nadav Lapid. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. At Cannes, the film shared the Jury Prize with ''Memoria'' by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Cast * Avshalom Pollak as Y * Nur Fibak as Yahalom * Yoram Honig as the farmer * Yonathan Kugler as the young Y * Lidor Ederi as Narkis * Amit Shoshani as the fearful soldier * Yehonathan Vilozni as the sergeant * Naama Preis as the casting director * Ortal Solomon as Ahed 1 * Mili Eshet as Ahed 2 * Oded Menaster as Smotrich * Netta Roth as the young actor Release The film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, it had its premiere on 7 July 2021 in the festival. It was also selected in 'Icon' section of 26th Busan International Film Festival and was screened in the festival in October 2021. It was invited in the Soul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neptune Frost
''Neptune Frost'' is a 2021 science fiction romantic musical film co-directed by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, and starring Cheryl Isheja, Elvis Ngabo and Kaya Free. It follows the relationship between Neptune and Matalusa, coltan miners whose love leads a hacker collective. Ezra Miller serves as a producer, while Lin-Manuel Miranda executive produces. It had its world premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in the Directors Fortnight section on July 8, 2021 and was released in the United States on June 3, 2022, by Kino Lorber to critical acclaim. ''Neptune Frost'' is the name of a black Revolutionary soldier who served in the Continental Army in 1775. Plot The film is an Afrofuturist story set in a village in Burundi made of computer parts, and centers on the relationship between Neptune, an intersex runaway, and Matalusa, a coltan miner, whose love leads a hacker collective. Cast * Cheryl Isheja as Neptune * Elvis Ngabo as Neptune * Bertrand "Kaya Free" Ninteretse a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milestone Films
Milestone Film and Video is an independent film distribution company, founded in 1990 in the United States by Dennis Doros and Amy Heller. The company researches and distributes cinematographic material from around the world, including silent film, post-war foreign film renaissance, contemporary American independent features, documentaries and foreign films. History Milestone was founded in 1990 in New York City by Dennis Doros and Amy Heller, who had both worked in the film restoration and distribution industries. The company now operates out of Harrington Park, New Jersey. Prominent supporters such as Martin Scorsese and Jonathan Demme have presented Milestone's film releases in the past. Milestone has distributed the works of Alfred Hitchcock, Luchino Visconti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, F.W. Murnau, Orson Welles, Shirley Clarke, Lionel Rogosin, Mikhail Kalatozov, Luis Buñuel, Takeshi Kitano, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Alan Berliner, Charles Burnett, Eleanor Antin, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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