Kino Lorber has unveiled some of the details of their January 2021 Blu-Ray and DVD releases from their Kino Lorber, Cohen Film Collection, Greenwich Entertainment, Metrograph Pictures, Menemsha Films, Virgil Films imprints. Get all the details on this incredibly packed lineup below:
Street Date: 1/5/21 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: The Keeper tells the incredible true story of Bert Trautmann (David Kross), a German soldier and prisoner of war who, against a backdrop of British post-war protest and prejudice, secures the position of goalkeeper at Manchester City, and in doing so becomes a soccer icon. His signing causes outrage to thousands of fans, many of them Jewish. But Bert receives support from an unexpected direction: Rabbi Alexander Altmann, who fled the Nazis. Bert’s love for Margaret (Freya Mavor), an English woman, carries him through and he wins over even his harshest opponents by winning the 1956 FA Cup Final, playing on with a broken neck to secure victory. But fate will soon twist the knife for Bert and Margaret, when their love and loyalty to each other is put to the ultimate test.
Bonus Features: Trailer
MARIO RUSPOLI, PRINCE OF THE WHALES
Street Date: 1/5/21
Synopsis: “From world-renowned filmmaker Hubert Sauper — director of Sundance winner We Come as Friends and the Oscar®-nominated Darwin’s Nightmare — comes Epicentro, an immersive and metaphorical portrait of post-colonial, “utopian” Cuba, where the 1898 explosion of the USS Maine still resonates. This Big Bang ended Spanish colonial dominance in the Americas and ushered in the era of the American Empire. At the same time and place, a powerful tool of conquest was born: cinema as propaganda. In Epicentro, Sauper explores a century of interventionism and myth-making together with the extraordinary people of Havana — particularly its children, who he calls “young prophets” — to interrogate time, imperialism and cinema itself.”
Bonus Features: Trailer
Street Date: 1/12/21 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: “From world-renowned filmmaker Hubert Sauper — director of Sundance winner We Come as Friends and the Oscar®-nominated Darwin’s Nightmare — comes Epicentro, an immersive and metaphorical portrait of post-colonial, “utopian” Cuba, where the 1898 explosion of the USS Maine still resonates. This Big Bang ended Spanish colonial dominance in the Americas and ushered in the era of the American Empire. At the same time and place, a powerful tool of conquest was born: cinema as propaganda. In Epicentro, Sauper explores a century of interventionism and myth-making together with the extraordinary people of Havana — particularly its children, who he calls “young prophets” — to interrogate time, imperialism and cinema itself.”
Bonus Features: Trailer
Synopsis: In this rediscovered masterpiece of film noir, Joan Crawford plays a successful playwright who marries a less than stellar actor (Jack Palance) with a troubling secret. She soon discovers that he not only married her for her money but that he plans to murder her with the help of his lover (Gloria Grahame in a performance The New York Times hailed as “hard, brash and sexy”). Nominated for four Academy Awards®, including Best Actress (Crawford), Best Supporting Actor (Palance) and Best Black & White Cinematography (Charles Lang Jr.), this taut thriller also features a score by Elmer Bernstein that is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat.
Bonus Features: Audio commentary by film historian Jeremy Arnold, author of “Turner Classic Movies’ The Essentials: 52 Must-See Movies and Why They Matter | Re-release trailer
Street Date: 1/19/21
Synopsis: Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy’s history, Martin Eden is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin (played by the marvelously committed Luca Marinelli, The Old Guard) is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university student (Jessica Cressy). The dissatisfactions of working-class toil and bourgeois success lead to political awakening and destructive anxiety in this enveloping, superbly mounted bildungsroman. Winner of the Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival and the Platform Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Bonus Features: Virtual Q&A with Luca Marinelli and Pietro Marcello (Courtesy of Film at Lincoln Center) [Blu-ray only] | Interview with Pietro Marcello | Audio commentary by film scholar Giovanna De Luca, PhD | Theatrical trailer
Street Date: 1/19/21 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: The groundbreaking new documentary In Case of Emergency from director Carolyn Jones (The American Nurse and Defining Hope) looks at how our country’s biggest public health challenges—from the COVID-19 pandemic to the opiod crisis to gun violence and lack of insurance—collide in emergency departments. Nearly half of all medical care in the U.S. is delivered in emergency departments and nurses are on the frontlines of that care, addressing our physical and emotional needs and sending us back out into the world.In Case of Emergency follows emergency nurses and their patients in seven unique settings across the U.S., from urban to rural, shedding light on some of the biggest health care crises facing Americans today, and the opportunity that emergency nurses have to help break a sometimes-vicious cycle for patients under their care.
Bonus Features: Q&A | Trailers
Street Date: 1/19/21 (DVD Only)
Bonus Features: Deleted Scenes | Trailer
Street Date: 1/19/21 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: The audacious murder of Kim Jong-un’s brother in a crowded Malaysian airport sparked a worldwide media frenzy. At the center of the investigation are two young women who are either cold-blooded killers or unwitting pawns in a political assassination. Assassins goes beyond the headlines to question every angle of this case, from human trafficking to geopolitical espionage to the secretive dynamics of the North Korean dynasty.
Bonus Features: Trailers
THE CHANGIN’ TIMES OF IKE WHITE
Synopsis: Released in 1976, Changin’ Times was an extraordinary album recorded in extraordinary circumstances—a commercial release recorded inside an American prison. The artist was Ike White, a music prodigy who was locked up at the age of 19, serving a life sentence for murder. With never-before-seen archival footage, The Changin’ Times of Ike White charts Ike’s journey from prison to life as a free man, and a subsequent reinvention of himself as a performer for hire called David Maestro.
Bonus Features: Image Gallery | Trailer
Synopsis: In Season 1 of hit Finnish crime thriller Bordertown, Chief investigator Kari Sorjonen and his family move to a small town to enjoy a more peaceful life. But it seems that the idyllic existence they had hoped for is far from the reality of this bordertown nestled between Finland and Russia. As the new police chief, Sorjonen has to use his brilliant mind and exceptional deductive skills to investigate several murder cases along with a serial killer who is tormenting the community. But he will soon discover that these successive crimes are connected not only to each other, but also to his family.
Bonus Features: Trailers
Synopsis: Nasrin was secretly filmed in Iran by women and men who risked arrest to make this documentary. It is an immersive portrait of the world’s most honored human rights activist and political prisoner, attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh, and of Iran’s remarkably resilient women’s rights movement. In the courts and on the streets, Nasrin has long fought for the rights of women, children, religious minorities, journalists and artists, and those facing the death penalty. In the midst of filming, Nasrin was arrested in June 2018 for representing women who were protesting Iran’s mandatory hijab law. She was sentenced to 38 years in prison, plus 148 lashes. Featuring acclaimed filmmaker Jafar Panahi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, and journalist Ann Curry. Narrated by Academy Award-winner Olivia Colman.
Bonus Features: Trailer
TRAFFICKED: A PARENT’S WORST NIGHTMARE
Synopsis: On the eve of her 16th birthday, Allison Riley (Sophie Bolen) disappears. When the police refuse their requests, her parents, Joanna (Kristy Swanson) and Case (Mark Boyd), reluctantly hire John Belton (Dean Cain), a private investigator with a reputation for questionable procedures and a dark past. Quickly, Belton realizes that Allison was coerced by a young handsome boy she met on social media and had been trafficked, and they are on a race against time to get her back.
Bonus Features: Trailer
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