Kino Lorber has unveiled some of the details of their June 2024 Blu-Ray and DVD releases from their Kino Lorber, Zeitgeist Films, Cohen Media Group, Greenwich Entertainment, Virgil Films and Redemption imprints. Get all the details on this incredibly packed lineup below:
Street Date: 6/4/24
Synopsis: When aspiring rapper Sol is discovered by a group of Gen-Z musicians after performing at a house party, he joins their tour through the heart of Texas and embarks on a once-in-a-lifetime road trip. Sol and his new collaborators bond over their shared pains and longings from the lives they left behind. Bold and brash, yet surprisingly sensitive and vulnerable, these young artists pour their souls into the music they create together. The novelty of Sol’s newfound family fades as the demons Sol left behind come back to haunt him, including his guilt over abandoning his ailing friend. His sense of self is put to the ultimate test as he seeks refuge from the rootlessness and loss that has defined his existence. Set to a lo-fi, genre-bending hip-hop soundtrack, Katherine Propper’s award-winning debut is suffused with a hazy and infectious energy and features virtuosic musical performances, from the tour van to the stage, that allow the ensemble’s winning chemistry to shine.
Bonus Features: Audio commentary by director Katherine Propper and star Sauve Sidle | Katherine Propper’s short films Street Flame (2019) and Birds (2021) | Deleted and Extended Scenes | Theatrical Trailer
Street Date: 6/11/24
Synopsis: Available in the U.S. for the first time, Patricia Rozema’s sophomore follow up to I’ve Heard The Mermaids Singing follows Norman (Maurice Godin), an aspiring writer with writer’s block, who peeps on his neighbors. When he witnesses the murder of famous singer Madeline X (Margot Kidder), he attends her memorial and encounters a woman connected to her (Kate Nelligan). He follows her home and discovers her nightly visits to a secret room. Set in Toronto of the ‘90s, this twisted urban fairy tale, as much about the consequences of naive romanticism as our uniquely modern obsession with celebrity, has two endings – one tragic, one euphoric, both essential.
Bonus Features: Audio commentary by director Patricia Rozema | Behind-the-Scenes Image Gallery | This Might be Good (2000, short film by Patricia Rozema) | Archival interview with Patricia Rozema | Alternate French audio dub | Trailers
Street Date: 6/11/24
Synopsis: Long considered to be a pivotal addition to the LGTBQ+ canon, the film centres on the story of Camille (Pascale Bussières), a professor at a Protestant college who is engaged to Martin (Henry Czerny), a respected minister and fellow professor. As ‘career Christians’ they are urged to get married so that they can become co-chaplains of the New College of Faith. When Camille meets Petra (Rachel Crawford), a wry and flamboyant performer in a modern Felliniesque circus troupe, she is inexplicably drawn. Camille pursues this sensual, dream-like woman, throwing her whole conservative life, not to mention her engagement, into disarray. A Canadian classic that was in Official Competition at the 1995 Berlin International Film Festival, When Night Is Falling tells a lesbian story beautifully photographed by Douglas Koch, catching a romantic wintry Toronto landscape.
Bonus Features: Audio commentary by director Patricia Rozema | Suspect (2005, short film by Patricia Rozema) | Archival Interview with Patricia Rozema | Alternate French audio dub | Trailers
Street Date: 6/11/24
Synopsis: Mouthpiece is a brilliant black comedy from director Patricia Rozema (I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing), adapted from the play by Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava. It follows Cassandra, an aspiring writer who, while struggling to compose a eulogy after the sudden death of her mother, comes to discover that her own rebelliousness is as much a response to the male gaze as her mother’s conformity. Enacting the two sides of Cassandra’s conflicting inner dialogue, playwright-performers Nostbakken and Sadava create a compelling portrayal of the tension between regression and progress that is often found within women.
Bonus Features: Audio commentary by director Patricia Rozema | Behind-the-Scenes Footage | Trailers
Street Date: 6/11/24
Synopsis: This loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extraordinary string of film roles, from his first collaboration with Mel Brooks in The Producers, to the enigmatic title role in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, to his inspired on-screen partnership with Richard Pryor in movies like Silver Streak. It is illustrated by a bevy of touching and hilarious clips and outtakes, never-before-seen home movies, narration from Wilder’s audiobook memoir, and interviews with a roster of brilliant friends and collaborators like Mel Brooks, Alan Alda, and Carol Kane. Remembering Gene Wilder shines a light on an essential performer, writer, director, and all-around mensch.
Bonus Features: Additional interviews with Mel Brooks, Harry Connick Jr., Burton Gilliam, Carol Kane, Ben Mankiewicz, Peter Ostrum, Karen Wilder, and Alan Zweibel | Theatrical Trailer
ARTHUR DONG’S ASIAN AMERICAN STORIES
Street Date: 6/25/24
Synopsis: With over 150 international film awards to his name, the full scope of Arthur Dong’s storytelling mastery is brought to light in this Blu-ray collection of films that explore the Asian American experience. This illuminating anthology includes four films spanning over 30 years that showcase Dong’s historically acute focus on Asian Americans at the crossroads with Hollywood, pop culture, tradition, immigration, racism, and genocide. The Academy Award®-nominated short documentary Sewing Woman (1982) is based on the life of Dong’s mother, a bittersweet journey of one woman’s determination to survive: from an arranged marriage in old China to the working class comforts of America. Forbidden City, U.S.A. (1989) profi les the groundbreaking entertainers from the renowned all-Chinese Forbidden City Nightclub in 1940s San Francisco. Hollywood Chinese (2007) is a smart and lively look at the ways the Chinese have been imagined in the movies, from silent classics to contemporary blockbusters. The Killing Fields of Dr. Haing S. Ngor (2015) chronicles the journey of a Cambodian doctor from his imprisonment by the Khmer Rouge to a harrowing escape to America, and from his Academy Award®-winning performance in The Killing Fields (1985) to his mysterious murder in Los Angeles Chinatown.
Bonus Features: Alternate Khmer audio for The Killing Fields of Dr. Haing S. Ngor
Street Date: 6/25/24
Synopsis: With over 150 awards to his name, the full scope of Arthur Dong’s storytelling mastery is brought to light in this Blu-ray collection of films that explore the LGBTQ experience. These critically acclaimed and award-winning films powerfully illustrate the many faces of the gay rights struggle in America, and dramatically reveal the social consequences of individual actions in America’s culture war over LGBTQ issues. Coming Out Under Fire (1994) profiles gay and lesbian World War II servicemembers confronting the military’s first anti-gay policies. Family Fundamentals (2002) looks into the personal and political lives of conservative Christian families with gay and lesbian offspring. Licensed To Kill (1997) is an uncompromising portrait of convicted murderers of gay men. Out Rage ’69 (1995) chronicles firsthand accounts of the Stonewall Rebellion, a seminal chapter in the modern fight for LGBTQ equality.
Street Date: 6/4/24
Synopsis: The final film from British master Ken Loach (Sorry We Missed You, Kes), The Old Oak is a deeply moving drama about loss, fear, and the difficulty of finding hope. The Old Oak is the last pub standing in a once thriving mining village in northern England, a gathering space for a community that has fallen on hard times. There is growing anger, resentment, and a lack of hope among the residents, but the pub and its proprietor TJ are a fond presence to their customers. When a group of Syrian refugees move into the floundering village, a decisive rift fueled by prejudices develops between the community and its newest inhabitants. The formation of an unexpected friendship between TJ and a young Syrian woman named Yara opens up new possibilities for the divided village.
Bonus Features: Deleted Scenes | Theatrical Trailer
Street Date: 6/18/24
Synopsis: James Norton (Bob Marley: One Love, Happy Valley, Little Women), stars as John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, who has dedicated his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son, Michael, after the child’s mother left them soon after giving birth. When John is given only a few months left to live, he attempts to find a new, perfect family for Michael, determined to shield him from the terrible reality of the situation. As John struggles to find the right answer to his impossible task, he comes to accept the help of a young social worker, opening himself to solutions he would never have considered. And he finally comes to accept his anger at the injustice of his destiny, the need to share the truth with his son, and to follow the child’s instincts on the biggest decision of their lives.
Bonus Features: Interview with Uberto Pasolini, James Norton and Daniel Lamont by Anna Smith | The Making of Nowhere Special | Theatrical Trailer
Street Date: 6/11/24 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: While driving through the countryside late at night, Dr Benson finds a crashed car with a woman hanging out of it. The doctor puts the girl in his car and drives for help to the nearest house, which turns out to be a mysterious castle. When he knocks on the door he is greeted by a woman who looks exactly the same as the injured woman. This woman invites them both to stay for the night and the doctor soon discovers that his host is not only the only one in the castle and that this beautiful woman is concealing a terrible secret… This is Italian gothic at its most demented, with lashings of 1970s-style sex, whippings, satanism, lesbianism, nudity, dubious haircuts and a lust-crazed arachnid with a taste for sadomasochism and women in stockings. A truly extraordinary film!
Bonus Features: Stills Selection | Official Trailer | Original Italian Posters
Street Date: 6/4/24 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: In the Company of Kings follows a fight fan’s unforgettable journey into the dark heart of American boxing to talk to eight former World Champs and those closest to his hero, Muhammad Ali, about race, struggle, victory, defeat and picking yourself up off the canvas. Features Larry Holmes, Bernard Hopkins, Tim Witherspoon, Earnie Shavers, the Spinks brothers, Bob Arum and more.
Bonus Features: Trailers
HIDDEN MASTER: THE LEGACY OF GEORGE PLATT LYNES
Street Date: 6/4/24 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: An intimate look at pioneering artist George Platt Lynes, who took radically explicit photographs of the male nude. The documentary reveals Lynes’ gifted eye for the male form, his long-term friendships with Gertrude Stein and Alfred Kinsey, and his lasting influence as one of the first openly gay American artists.
Bonus Features: Trailer
Street Date: 6/25/24 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: The extraordinary story of the 1971 Women’s World Cup, which was held in Mexico City and witnessed by more than 100,000 fans. This landmark tournament was dismissed by FIFA and written out of sports history – until now. COPA 71 weaves together dazzling archival footage and interviews with the former players. Executive Produced by Venus & Serena Williams and Alex Morgan.
Bonus Features: Trailers
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