The Atomic Cafe
This darkly funny and eerily relevant 1982 cult classic about how to stop worrying and love the bomb is pieced together from government-produced educational and training films, newsreels and advertisements. Presented in a sparkling 4K digital restoration.
The Blood Beast Terror
This classically told monster movie directed by Vernon Sewell is set in motion when mutilated bodies begin appearing in the English countryside, drained of blood. Horror icon Peter Cushing stars as Detective Inspector Quennell, brought in to investigate the deaths.
Café de Flore
Cafe de Flore is a love story about people separated by time and place, but connected in profound and mysterious ways. Atmospheric, fantastical, tragic and hopeful, the film chronicles the parallel fates of Jacqueline, a young mother with a disabled son in 1960s Paris, and Antoine, a recently divorc…
The Confrontation
Paralleling the dramatic student protests and riots that were exploding across the world in the 1960s at the time the film was made, The Confrontation is a story of protest and rebellion. Set in 1947 Hungary when the Communist Party have just taken power, dancing, singing Communist students debate C…
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
An incredible true story that unfolds like "a ripping good yarn... with an uproarious, impossible Hollywood ending" (Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com), HARVARD BEATS YALE 29-29 is filmmaker Kevin Rafferty's (The Atomic Cafe) acclaimed documentary depicting one of the most legendary games in the history of …
Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (Kino Cult #50)
This unique documentary recounts the history of the shock-value driver's education films that haunted American teens. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, these grisly movies used unflinching color footage of fatal accidents to scare young drivers.
Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect
Pritzker Prize winning Irish-American architect Kevin Roche is an enigma. He reached the top of his profession, but had little interest in celebrity and eschews the label “Starchitect”. The film transcends the world of architecture to present a life-philosophy we can all aspire to.
Link
Young graduate student Jane Chase becomes the new assistant to an eccentric zoology professor at the remote home he shares with two brilliant chimpanzees and an elderly orangutan butler named Link. But when one of the chimps is found dead and the professor mysteriously disappears, Link becomes dange…
Millay at Steepletop: Two Films by Kevin Brownlow
MILLAY AT STEEPLETOP aims to recapture the joyous fire of Edna St. Vincent Millay's work by combining readings of her poetry with rare archival footage, while THE LAST TRAM offers a poetic farewell to Glasgow's trolleys.
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The Red Chapel
In this Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning film, a trio of Danish comedians, who call themselves "The Red Chapel," pretend to be regime sympathizers and mount an absurd variety show in Pyongyang. The result is an unconventional, hilarious and damning peek into a totalitarian regime.
Rhythm Thief
Winner of the jury prize at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, RHYTHM THIEF stars Jason Andrews (Last Exit to Brooklyn) as a NYC music bootlegger who finds himself in deep trouble after ripping off the music of an all-girl punk band (fronted by rocker Cynthia Sley of the Bush Tetras). "A Lower East Si…
Scare Us
A writers’ club local bookstore meeting is underscored with the news that an infamous serial killer is back to terrorize their small town.
Silent Avant-Garde
SILENT AVANT-GARDE offers an essential collection of 21 short art film experiments in HD to 5K scans made from 35mm and 16mm picture elements.
A Taste of Phobia
A horror anthology in which 14 directors delve into the terrifying truths and horrors of phobias.
Walk With Me
With unprecedented access, ‘Walk With Me’ takes us deep inside the world-famous monastery of Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh, and captures the life of a monastic community who have given up all their possessions for one common purpose – to practice the art of mindfulness. Narra…
Winstanley
Filmmaking team Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo weave a nearly perfect rendering of historical events in WINSTANLEY, the true story of one Englishman's quest to reclaim land for the poor.
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood
For over two decades, Frances Marion was one of the most powerful names Hollywood; now, her fascinating story come alive in this insightful documentary narrated by Uma Thurman and Kathy Bates.