Kino Lorber - Experience Cinema

Amrum

Drama · History · War

Director Fatih Akin (In the Fade) reunites with frequent collaborator Diane Kruger in this tender coming-of-age tale about the loss of innocence in the waning days of WWII. On the windswept island of Amrum in northern Germany, a young farmboy sets out on a quest in an attempt to bring solace to his …

Archipelago

Drama · Earth Day

A quietly devastating portrayal of a family in emotional crisis. Edward (Tom Hiddleston) is preparing to leave for a year of voluntary service in Africa. His mother Patricia (Kate Fahy) and his sister Cynthia (Lydia Leonard) decide to gather the family together, on a remote island, as a farewell tri…

Beware of Mr. Baker

Documentary

This no-holds- barred, moving, and hilarious portrait of the man referred to as rock’s first great drummer (and perhaps still its best) lets him tell his own story, intercut with footage of his continent-hopping life, from London to L.A., Nigeria, Italy, South Africa, and (way) beyond.

Damaged Lives

Drama

Eugène Brieux’s play Les Avaries endeavored to bring syphilis out of the shadows and erase the stigma surrounding it. Later adapted by Upton Sinclair into the novel Damaged Goods, the story became the backbone of countless sex hygiene films, in which a young couple’s happiness is …

Let's Get Lost

Documentary

Traveling with the elusive jazz vocalist and trumpeter Chet Baker, Bruce Weber weaves together the life story of a jazz great. The film uses excerpts from Italian B movies, rare performance footage, and candid interviews with Baker, musicians, friends, battling ex-wives, and his children in what tur…

A Paris Education

Drama

Shooting in timeless black and white and interweaving references to philosophy, music, and cinema, unsung auteur Jean Paul Civeyrac’s story of a young cinephile who moves to Paris for film school is an ode to the creative process and the heady days of student life.

Princess Tam Tam

Music & Dance · Comedy · African-American

An ingenious shepherdess is transformed into a bogus Indian princess of a capricious French aristocrat. This charming Continental comedy follows both the myth of Pygmalion and La Baker's own rise as an expatriate celebrity.

Robbery

Crime · Mystery · Cult

Inspired by true events, Robbery is an uncompromising portrayal of swinging London’s criminal underworld.

The Sex Thief

Erotic · World Cinema · Comedy

From its opening title sequence, it is apparent that director Martin Campbell (CASINO ROYALE, GOLDENEYE) intended his first feature, a low-budget sex romp called THE SEX THIEF, to be an homage to the James Bond series. Irresistible to women of every variety, the roguish title character (David Warbec…

Siren of the Tropics

Silent · Music & Dance

Available only as a fragment for decades, Baker's first film debut establishes the rags to riches fairy tale from which her subsequent films would be cut - this time set in a conspicuously Parisian Antilles. Among the crew was a very young Luis Bunuel.