Kino Lorber - Experience Cinema

The AIDS Show

History · Documentary

THE AIDS SHOW combines excerpts from a collaborative piece of theatre written in an unprecedented health crisis with interviews from the show's creators and performers, producing a powerful hybrid of documentary and drama about the community most affected by the disease – gay men.

Portrait of Jason

Biography · Documentary

Shirley Clarke filmed gay actor, hustler, chanteuse Jason Holliday's 12-hour soliloquy, creating a documentary that Ingmar Bergman said was "the most extraordinary film I’ve seen in my life.”

Two Friends

Lesbian · Drama

The first feature film by director Jane Campion and writer Helen Garner tells the history a teenage friendship going backward in time, from the relationship's bittersweet end to its hopeful beginning.

The Wide Blue Road

World Cinema · Romance · Drama

Set in a fishing village on Italy's Dalmatian coast, Yves Montand plays Giovanni Squarciò, a rogue fisherman whose livelihood is threatened when a new chief of police is installed in town.

Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives

Lesbian · LGBTQ · Documentary

Led by Peter Adair, the Mariposa Film Group made the first feature-length documentary about lesbian and gay identity made by gay filmmakers. Their 1977 film is a collage of interviews, funny and heartbreaking.