Kino Lorber has unveiled some of the details of their November and December 2024 Blu-Ray and DVD releases from their Kino Lorber, Cohen Media Group, Greenwich Entertainment, First Run Features, Virgil Films and Raro Video imprints. Get all the details on this incredibly packed lineup below:
Street Date: 11/19/24
Synopsis: The fist-pumping Prey for Rock & Roll stars the electrifying Gina Gershon as Jacki, a rocker who worries that she may never make it big. Along with bandmates played by Drea de Matteo (The Sopranos), Lori Petty (A League of Their Own), and Shelly Cole (Gilmore Girls), she has spent years of struggle playing gigs up and down the Sunset Strip. But when that break finally arrives, their lives are turned upside down. The feature directing debut of veteran music supervisor Alex Steyermark, and based on Cheri Lovedog’s autobiographical play, Prey for Rock & Roll is a powerfully authentic portrayal of DIY rock bands, with Gershon singing all the film’s songs herself (produced by Stephen Trask of Hedwig and the Angry Inch fame and backed by an all-star band of women alt-rockers). A film ahead of its time, it has established itself as an LGBTQ+ touchstone and a rock and roll cult classic.
Bonus Features: Archival Interview with Gina Gershon | Archival Promo and B-Roll footage | Audio commentary by director Alex Steyermark | Behind-the-Scenes Polaroid Photo Gallery | Camera Coverage of the Musical Finale | Interview with writer Cheri Lovedog | Re-Release Trailer
Street Date: 12/10/24
Synopsis: For one extraordinary week beginning on February 14th, 1972, the Revolution WAS televised. Daytime Revolution takes us back in time to the week that John Lennon and Yoko Ono descended upon a Philadelphia broadcasting studio to co-host the iconic Mike Douglas Show, at the time the most popular show on daytime television with an audience of 40 million viewers a week. What followed was five unforgettable episodes of television, with Lennon and Ono at the helm and Douglas bravely keeping the show on track. Acting as both producers and hosts, Lennon and Ono handpicked their guests, including controversial choices like Yippie founder Jerry Rubin and Black Panther Chairman Bobby Seale, as well as political activist Ralph Nader and comic truth teller George Carlin. Their version of daytime TV was a radical take on the traditional format, incorporating candid Q&A sessions with their transfixed audience, conversations about current issues like police violence and women’s liberation, conceptual art events, and one-of-a-kind musical performances, including a unique duet with Lennon and Chuck Berry and a poignant rendition of Lennon’s “Imagine”. A document of the past that speaks to our turbulent present, Daytime Revolution captures the power that art can have when it reaches out to communicate, the prescience of that dialogue, and the bravery of two artists who never took the easy way out as they fought for their vision of a better world.
Bonus Features: Restoration Demonstration | Theatrical Trailer | Uncut Musical Performances by John Lennon and Yoko Ono: | IT’S SO HARD (FEB. 14th, 1972) | MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE (w/ Chuck Berry, FEB. 16th, 1972) | LUCK OF THE IRISH (FEB. 18th, 1972)
MERCHANT IVORY: THE DOCUMENTARY
Street Date: 11/12/24
Synopsis: Merchant Ivory is the definitive documentary of the legendary Merchant Ivory partnership, which produced such award-winning masterpieces as A Room with a View, Maurice, Howards End, and Remains of the Day. It is anchored by an interview with James Ivory and forty-one collaborators detailing and celebrating their experiences of being a part of the “wandering company” helmed by legendary producer Ismail Merchant. With six Academy Award®-winners among the notable artists participating, including Emma Thompson and Vanessa Redgrave, the documentary provides new and compelling perspectives on a unique partnership that produced seminal films over four decades.
Bonus Features: Interviews with Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, Hugh Grant, Vanessa Redgrave, and Hiroyuki Sanada | Deleted Scene – Stephen Soucy | James Ivory and Stephen Soucy Introduction from the NY Indian Film Festival | James Ivory and Stephen Soucy in Conversation at the NYSWI Film Festival | Rich Atmosphere: The Music of Merchant Ivory Films | Theatrical Trailer
Street Date: 11/12/24
Synopsis: A trio of romantic – if bittersweet – tales set in New York’s esteemed Roseland Ballroom unfold in this touching drama. In “The Waltz,” recently widowed May (Teresa Wright) visits the Roseland to honor the memory of her late husband, and unexpectedly meets Stan (Lou Jacobi), who offers her an opportunity for happiness. “The Hustle” finds Russel (Christopher Walken) as a gigolo who keeps company with three women (Geraldine Chaplin, Joan Copeland and Helen Gallagher), but struggles to commit to any of them. Finally, in “The Peabody,” Rosa (Lilia Skala), an older Viennese woman, commits to winning a dance competition despite warnings that it could imperil not only her health, but her tenuous relationship with her dance partner as well. Expertly directed by James Ivory from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s moving screenplay, and produced by Ismail Merchant, Roseland brims with stories of not only searching for the glories of the past, but for hope in the future.
Bonus Features: Conversations from the Quad: James Ivory and Larry Kardish discuss the making of ROSELAND | Restoration Trailer
Street Date: 11/5/24
Synopsis: The explosive second film in Fernando Di Leo’s Milieu Trilogy (following 1972’s Caliber 9) is an Italian action classic that was a major influence on Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994). When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan (Mario Adorf, The Tin Drum) is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen (Woody Strode and Henry Silva) are dispatched from New York to rub him out, while the real thieves are rushing to kill him first so the Americans don’t learn the truth. When the pimp’s wife and daughter are murdered in the course of the manhunt, he swears revenge on everyone. Presented in a 4K restoration from the original negative.
Bonus Features: Audio Commentary by Film Historian Samm Deighan | Archival documentary Roots of the Mafia | Alternate English feature audio track | Trailers
Street Date: 11/12/24
Synopsis: The thrilling final chapter in Fernando Di Leo’s Milieu Trilogy (following Caliber 9 and The Italian Connection), The Boss stars Henry Silva as a mob enforcer who gets stuck in the middle of a violent gangland power struggle. Presented in a 4K restoration of the original negative.
Bonus Features: Audio Commentary by Film Historian Samm Deighan | Archival Documentary: Mafia Stories | Alternate English feature audio track | Trailers
Street Date: 11/26/24 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: The song “Fancy Like” was #1 in the US in 2021, taking off on TikTok and becoming the anthem of the year with an Applebee’s commercial. Walker and his daughter Lela (who choreographed the dance) explain how that song changed their lives. The documentary is the definitive story of Hayes’ life, retracing 17 years of struggling with addiction and loss before this massive overnight success.
Bonus Features: Trailers
Street Date: 11/12/24 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: Trailblazing food writer and best-selling memoirist Ruth Reichl examines the precarious state of America’s food system. Reaching across political and social divides, she meets with small farmers, ranchers, and chefs risking it all to survive. Through Reichl’s eyes, we see the humanity and struggle behind the food we eat. A Sundance Film Festival premiere.
Bonus Features: Trailers
MAD ABOUT THE BOY: THE NOEL COWARD STORY
Street Date: 11/19/24 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: The extraordinary life of playwright, singer, actor, composer, and director Noël Coward, who rose from poverty to stardom while keeping his sexuality a secret. Featuring Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Sinatra, Michael Caine and Lucille Ball. Narrated by Alan Cumming. With Rupert Everett as the voice of Noël Coward. Directed by Academy Award® Nominee Barnaby Thompson.
Bonus Features: Trailers
Street Date: 11/26/24 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: Academy Award® Nominee Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings, The Good Liar) stars as a powerful London theater critic who lures a struggling actress into a blackmail scheme with deadly consequences. A suspenseful thriller co-starring Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace), Mark Strong (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and Lesley Manville (Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris).
Bonus Features: Behind-the-Scenes Featurette | Trailers
Street Date: 12/17/24
Synopsis: With over 150 awards to his name, the full scope of Arthur Dong’s storytelling mastery is brought to light in this special edition Blu-ray collection of films that explore the Asian American and LGBTQ experience. Distinguished by his intensely compassionate and wonderfully crafted stories, this collection of critically acclaimed and award-winning films, plus a bonus disc with four hours of shorts, outtakes, and more, powerfully illustrates the many sides and faces of the Asian American and gay rights struggle in America.
Bonus Features: DISC 1: ASIAN AMERICAN STORIES: Sewing Woman (1982), Forbidden City, USA (1989), Hollywood Chinese (2007), The Killing Fields of Dr. Haing S. Ngor (2015) | DISC 2: LGBTQ STORIES: Coming Out Under Fire (1994), Out Rage ’69 (1995), Licensed to Kill (1997), Family Fundamentals (2002) Out Rage ‘69 was episode 1 of a 4 part series entitled The Question of Equality, which was a Testing the Limits Production. | DISC 3: BONUS FEATURES: Public (1970, Arthur Dong), Living Music for Golden Mountains (1981-2010, Arthur Dong – director’s cut) | Conversation: Hollywood Chinese – Jacqueline Stewart in conversation with Arthur Dong (courtesy of Academy Museum of Motion Pictures) | Arthur Dong in Conversation with Oliver Wang (Courtesy of Criterion) | Additional Interviews | Outtakes | Trailers
Street Date: 12/03/24 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: When the filmmaker Simon Chambers receives a call from his elderly gay uncle – “I think I may be dying!” – he takes it as a summons. As it turns out, eccentric Uncle David, a retired actor living alone in a cluttered, mouse-infested London house, is being dramatic, sort of: For the next five years, Chambers both cares for and documents him, through all his performative exuberance (constantly acting out passages of King Lear) and anarchic charisma (swinging from boisterous humor to short temper), as various people (including a sexy young hustler) possibly take advantage of him. As their lives become encumbered by hospital visits, a house fire, and Britain’s inadequate eldercare system, the younger man (also single and queer) reflects with aching honesty on what may await him in the years to come, in this moving yet hilarious film.
Bonus Features: Trailers
Street Date: 12/03/24 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: THE QUEST: Everest is a journey to deeper understand and climb the most iconic mountain in the world, Mt. Everest, and to reveal its amazing history and culture. From experiencing Everest like never before to witnessing unique stories about one of the most remarkable places on earth, THE QUEST: Everest is a one-of-a-kind cinematic tribute to the human spirit of adventure that lives inside us all.
Bonus Features: Trailers
Street Date: 12/10/24 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: Tom Pickering has never eaten meat and believes he’s been doing right by the animals, his own health, and – more recently – the planet. Despite this, he still can’t go a day without hearing from others why they could never go vegan. So, Tom sets out to investigate the many reasons he’s heard over the years, and see if they’re unjustified, or whether his upbringing was one big plant-based con.
Bonus Features: Trailers
Street Date: 12/03/24 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: Jerry, an ordinary immigrant dad, retired in Orlando, is recruited to be an undercover agent for the Chinese police. Jerry’s family recreates the events on film and his three sons discover a darker truth. True crime meets spy thriller in this genre-bending docufiction hybrid about an immigrant’s search for the American dream. A Slamdance Film Festival Grand Jury and Audience Award winner.
Bonus Features: Trailers
Street Date: 12/10/24 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: CNN camerawoman Margaret Moth fearlessly captures footage of war zones. After receiving catastrophic injuries in the crosshairs of battle, she returns to work with more courage than ever. An intimate portrait of a trailblazing female photojournalist. Features interviews with Moth’s family and friends, including CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. A Sundance film festival premiere directed by Lucy Lawless.
Bonus Features: Trailers
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