Kino International Corporation
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A vulnerable young woman, whose blind trust in a man leads her into a New Orleans bordello, endures the hardships of that life, but is eventually driven to murdering her lover. A sympathetic jury acquits her and after a period of hardship she ultimately finds happiness.
2) Dersu Uzala
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
Russian
Description
Tells of the friendship between Vladimir Arsenyev, a well-known Soviet explorer, and his guide, Dersu Uzala. It is the story of a man's unity with nature and of the struggle for survival in the wilderness.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Multiple
Description
A middle-aged instructor at a boys' prep school becomes infatuated with a singer from a sleazy cafe. He is forced to leave his respectable job. He marries the singer and travels with her performing troupe, sinking ever lower. When she leaves him for someone new, he returns to his former school as a broken old man.
Publisher
Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
In Paris, 1941, Armenian poet Missak Manouchian leads a motley crew of foreign-born resistance fighters in clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. An initially reluctant Manouchian and his team must resort to guerilla tactics and radical measures in the name of liberty. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS general, eventually reaches Berlin.
Publisher
Kino
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the gambling episode in the ancient Hindu epic the Mahabharata, this rare classic of silent cinema tells of two kings who share a passion for reckless gambling, and for the same woman. A throw of dice is the third film in a pioneering trilogy of silent films made through a unique partnership between German director Franz Osten and Indian actor-producer Himansu Rai.
Publisher
Lorber Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Italiano
Description
An ineffably beautiful meditation on the mysterious cycles of life. Set in Italy's mountainous region of Calabria, it traces the path of one goatherder's soul as it passes from human to animal to vegetable to mineral. Director Michelangelo Frammartino was inspired by Pythagoras' belief in 'four-fold transmigration' of souls, but his film is far more physical than philosophical.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Korean
Description
Mija is a beautiful woman in her sixties who moves gracefully through life, contemplating a trivial daily routine that is ill-suited to her refined persona. On a whim, Mija enrolls in a poetry class at the local cultural center and begins a personal quest to find the perfect words to describe her feelings. However, she's appreciate the wonders of the natural world, but a school girl's suicide initiates a chain of tragic events that will change her...
10) Kippur
Publisher
Kino Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
עברית
Description
Film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. We are led on a day that begins with quiet city streets, but ends with death, destruction and devastation of both body and mind.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A tense, shocking thriller that evokes the early films of Alfred Hitchcock and the masterworks of Russian and German silent cinema. It opens with the escape of a prisoner from Dartmoor prison, and flashes back to show how a love triangle led him to jail. A perfect companion to Dartmoor is Silent Britain, a feature-length documentary of the golden age of British filmmaking. The first documentary to celebrate the visionary filmmakers and the unsung...
12) Nosferatu
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The original "Dracula" film, based on the story by Bram Stoker. Graf Orlok, known as "Nosferatu" by the villagers, arrives in town on a boat devoid of life, except for rats and disease.
Home use only.
Series
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Bambara
Description
A film adaptation of one of the great oral epics of the Bambara people, set during the powerful Mali Empire of the 13th century. Tells the story of Nianankoro, a young Bambara warrior destined to destroy a corrupt older society, the secret Komo cult, and with it his father, and, inevitably, himself. The climactic flash of light which floods the screen at the film's end ushers in a new purified world order and captures the Bambara belief in time as...
15) L'âge d'or
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
Using a melange of strange and unrelated images, this surrealistic film about two lovers who mock convention and the society intent on preventing them from satisfying their desire is a statement by Buñuel on the nature of the bourgeoisie, the Church and the police. Banned in France within two weeks of its release.
16) Les vampires
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
None
Description
An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Ukrainian
Description
A deeply heartfelt story set during the early part of the 20th century in the Ukrainian Carpathians, centering on Ivan whose life is marked with sadness. First his brother is killed while saving him from a falling tree. Then his father is murdered, forcing Ivan and his mother to live in poverty. He falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of the man responsible for his father's death. Marichka drowns rescuing a lamb from a river, but Ivan remains...
18) War requiem
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Appears on these lists
World War I Collection Spotlight - Aftermath
World War I Collection Spotlight - Essentials [Adult]
World War I Collection Spotlight - Films
World War I Collection Spotlight - Poetry
World War I Collection Spotlight - Essentials [Adult]
World War I Collection Spotlight - Films
World War I Collection Spotlight - Poetry
Description
The horrors of war and the pacifist sentiments expressed in Benjamin Britten's War requiem and the poems of Wilfred Owen are evoked in scenes and vignettes illustrating death and suffering in World War I.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
An 8-year old Sicilian princess is kidnapped by pirates, eventually becoming a slave in Carthage. When she reaches adulthood, she attempts to win her freedom again, whatever the costs. Set in the third century B.C. during the Punic Wars.
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