Kino Lorber has unveiled some of the details of their November 2022 Blu-Ray and DVD releases from their Kino Lorber, Kino Classics, Milestone Cinematheque, Cohen Media Group, Greenwich Entertainment, Good Deed Entertainment, Zeitgeist Films, First Run Features, Gunpowder & Sky and Raro Video imprints. Get all the details on this incredibly packed lineup below:
Street Date: 11/15/22 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: Director Nabil Ayouch (Razzia, Horses of God) drew on his own experience opening a youth cultural center in Casablanca for this story of a former rapper named Anas who takes a job teaching hip hop in an underprivileged neighborhood. Despite differences in identity, religion, and politics, Anas encourages his students to bond together and break free from the weight of restrictive traditions in order to follow their passion and express themselves through the arts. Featuring a dynamic ensemble of first-time actors, many of them students of the real-life cultural center where the film was shot, Casablanca Beats is a vibrant and inspiring coming-of-age hip hop musical with a decidedly feminist edge. Mixing intimate yet high stakes drama with infectious musical sequences, the film transports audiences to a lively and contemporary Casablanca, far from the clichés about the Arab world. Morocco’s official submission to the 94th Academy Awards® offers a refreshing dose of youthful inspiration alongside a powerful message about the liberating power of self-expression.
Bonus Features: Trailers
Street Date: 11/22/22
Synopsis: In Hold Me Tight, Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread, Bergman Island) gives another riveting performance as Clarisse, a woman on the run from her family for reasons that aren’t immediately clear. Widely renowned as one of France’s great contemporary actors but less well-known in North America for his equally impressive work behind the camera, Mathieu Amalric’s sixth feature as director is his most ambitious to date. This virtuosic, daringly fluid portrait of a woman in crisis alternates between Clarisse’s adventures on the road and scenes of her abandoned husband Marc (Arieh Worthalter) as he struggles to take care of their children at home. Amalric’s film keeps viewers uncertain as to the reality of what they’re seeing until the final moments of this moving, unpredictable, and richly rewarding family drama.
Bonus Features: Audio commentary by director Mathieu Amalric (French with English subtitles) | Interview with star Vicky Krieps and Matheiu Amalric | Q&A with Mathieu Amalric and Vicky Krieps at the Angelika Film Center | Photo Galleries | Theatrical trailer
Street Date: 11/15/22 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: In Steve Brand’s timeless documentary KADDISH — as bracing as any fiction — we witness a candid portrait of a young Jew coming to terms with his father’s traumatic history. It is the story of the stormy yet loving relationship between writer and Jewish activist Yossi Klein and his father Zoltan, who had survived the Holocaust’s devastation of Hungarian Jewry by hiding in a hole in the ground for six months while his parents – Yossi’s grandparents – perished at Auschwitz. Once Yossi and his sister Karen were born, Zoltan was determined that they be emotionally prepared to survive another holocaust. His story of hiding in the forest and the murder of his parents became his children’s bedtime stories. Their mother Breindy compensated by reading Dr. Seuss books. Kaddish is an emotion-packed coming-of-age journey, told with charm and a surprising sense of humor. It culminates at the first International Gathering of Holocaust Survivors in Jerusalem which Yossi attends “wearing two yarmulkes” — as a writer and as the child of a survivor. But he attends alone, and, he soon realizes, bereft. Yet the film ends, as David Denby has written, “in a burst of elation–all burdens lifted at once–that is one of the most moving things I have seen in recent films.”
Bonus Features: DISC 1: Trailer | Reviews | Awards | Screening History Highlights | Bios DISC 2: New interview with filmmaker Steve Brand | New 30 Years Later Interview with Yossi Klein Halevi | Original Pilot | Deleted Scenes
PICPUS AND CECILE IS DEAD! – INSPECTOR MAIGRET DOUBLE FEATURE
Street Date: 11/29/22
Synopsis: With trademark hat and pipe, Albert Préjean (Princess Tam Tam) stars as the venerable Inspector Maigret in two first-rate Georges Simenon adaptations from the 1940s. PICPUS (1943): Whilst moving into her new Paris apartment, Madame Dumont discovers a dead body in her wardrobe. Soon more corpses pile up near the metro station Picpus and the eponymous street: a clairvoyant, a blind man, a doctor, a real estate agent. These people have certainly got something in common, but what can it be? Maigret is summoned to investigate in this thrilling whodunit from director Richard Pottier (Fanfare d’Amour). In CÉCILE IS DEAD! (1944) Santa Relli (Jour de Fête) plays a young woman named Cécile, who keeps coming to Quai des Orfèvres to see Inspector Maigret about disturbing events in her household. The esteemed detective and his colleagues are annoyed…until Cécile winds up dead. Maigret must crack the mystery in this stylish film noir from director Maurice Tourneur (Lorna Doone).
Bonus Features: Trailers for MAIGRET SETS A TRAP and MAIGRET AND THE ST. FIACRE CASE
Street Date: 11/29/22
Synopsis: Alma’s Rainbow is a coming-of-age comedy-drama about three Black women living in Brooklyn. Ayoka Chenzira’s feature film explores the life of teenager Rainbow Gold (Victoria Gabrielle Platt) who is entering womanhood and navigating conversations and experiences around standards of beauty, self-image, and the rights women have over their bodies. Rainbow attends a strict parochial school, studies dance, and is just becoming aware of boys. She lives with her strait-laced mother Alma Gold (Kim Weston-Moran), who runs a beauty parlor in the parlor of their home. When Alma’s free-spirited sister Ruby (Mizan Kirby) arrives from Paris after a 10-year absence, the sisters clash over what constitutes the “proper” direction Rainbow’s life should take. Alma has fooled herself into believing she has no need of male companionship and advises her daughter to follow her example. Ruby encourages both her niece and her sister to embrace life – and love – fully and joyfully. Alma’s Rainbow highlights a multi-layered Black women’s world where the characters live, love, and wrestle with what it means to exert and exercise their agency. Restoration by the Academy Film Archive, Film Foundation, and Milestone Films. Restoration supervised by Mark Toscano. Funding provided by The Film Foundation and Hobson Lucas Family Foundation.
Bonus Features: DISC 1 Panel discussion after world premiere of 4K restoration at the Brooklyn Academy of Music | Ayoka Chenzira on Alma’s Rainbow (oral history recorded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences) | Peggy Dillard Toone on Alma’s Rainbow DISC 2 Short Films by Ayoka Chenzira: Syvilla: They Dance to Her Drum / Hairpiece: A Film for Nappy Headed People / The Lure and the Lore / Zajota and the Boogie Spirit / Pull Your Head to the Moon: Stories of Creole Women / Williamswood / MOTV (My Own TV) / Snowfire / In the Rivers of Mercy Angst / HERadventure
Street Date: 11/1/22 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: Loving Highsmith is a unique look at the life of celebrated American author Patricia Highsmith based on her diaries and notebooks and the intimate reflections of her lovers, friends and family. Focusing on Highsmith’s quest for love and her troubled identity, the film sheds new light on her life and writing. Most of Highsmith’s novels were adapted for the big screen; the best known of these are Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley. Carol, a partly autobiographic novel, was the first lesbian story with a happy ending to be published in 1950s America. But Highsmith herself was forced to lead a double life and had to hide her vibrant love affairs from her family and the public. Only in her unpublished writings did she reflect on her private life. Excerpts from these notes voiced by Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones, Top of the Lake), beautifully interwoven with archival
material of her and her most famous novel adaptations, create a vivid, touching portrait of one of the most fascinating female writers.
Bonus Features: Recording of the score by Noël Akchoté with Mary Halvorson | Additional interviews with Bruno Sager, Ingeborg Lüscher, Marijane Meaker, and Monique Buffet | Additional footage about Highsmith’s family from Alabama and Fort Worth | Theatrical Trailer
FELIX AND LOLA /LOVE STREET – TWO FILMS FROM PATRICE LECONTE
Street Date: 11/1/22
Synopsis: Cohen Film Collection presents two deliriously romantic classics by director Patrice Leconte.
FELIX AND LOLA (2001)
Bumper car operator Felix (Philippe Torreton) falls in love with Lola (Charlotte Gainsbourg) one night as she rides the cars round and round, alone. He’s touched by the sadness in her eyes. When she vanishes, he discovers that she’s tied to a mysterious past – a past that he will have to confront. How far will he go to set her free?
LOVE STREET (2002)
In 1945 Paris, the Oriental Palace brothel is about to be closed down. Marion (Laetitia Casta) is one of the Palace’s prostitutes, but she dreams of a singing career. Petit Louis (Patrick Timsit) was raised in brothels and is the Palace’s handyman. He is madly in love with Marion, but knows she will never be his, so he tries to make her dreams of another life come true.
Bonus Features: Audio commentary tracks for FELIX AND LOLA and LOVE STREET by Wade Major, producer/host of the DigiGods podcast, film critic for CineGods.com and KPCC FilmWeek | Trailers
Street Date: 11/29/22
Synopsis: In this bittersweet, often funny, semi-autobiographical period drama, director Diane Kurys (PEPPERMINT SODA) reimagines the post-War years of her parents and the passionate friendship between two women. We first meet Léna (Isabelle Huppert, playing a role modeled after Kurys’ mother) in 1942, a young Jewish woman in an internment camp run by the Vichy authorities. She accepts a proposal of marriage by one of the camp workers in the hopes of escaping deportation to Nazi Germany. They escape on foot, crossing the Alps to Italy, and settle in Lyon after the war to raise two daughters. At a school event she meets another mother, Madeleine (Miou-Miou), a charismatic artist, and the two form a special bond that offers the promise of escaping the mundane domestic life they’ve grown dissatisfied with. “A bittersweet domestic epic that reconciles feminism with femininity.” – Time
Bonus Features: Interview with director Diane Kurys (38 min.) | Trailers
Street Date: 11/29/22
Synopsis: Bruno Ganz gives a tour-de-force performance as Hoffman, an innocent bystander who survives a gunshot to the head by the police during a raid on a group of revolutionaries. In order to justify the shooting, the police claim he is a dangerous radical who attacked a policeman. The leftist revolutionaries in turn claim him as a hero and victim of police brutality. As Hoffman struggles to recover from the trauma to his brain and memory loss, he must try to piece together what really happened that fateful night. Featuring a stunning first solo score by Irmin Schmidt, co-founder of the legendary krautrock band CAN.
Bonus Features: Interview with director Reinhard Hauff | Interview with executive producer Eberhard Junkersdorff | Trailers
Street Date: 11/1/22
Synopsis: Academy Award Winner Javier Bardem stars as Blanco, proprietor of Básculas Blanco, a Spanish company producing industrial scales in a provincial Spanish town, which awaits the imminent visit from a committee that will decide if they merit a local Business Excellence award: everything has to be perfect when the time comes. Working against the clock, Blanco pulls out all the stops to address and resolve issues with his employees, crossing every imaginable line in the process.
Bonus Features: Interviews with Javier Bardem and Fernando Leon de Aránoa from Deadline Contenders International courtesy of PMC | Theatrical trailer
Street Date: 11/1/22 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: The world’s greatest drummers reflect on the art of drumming and how it has shaped their lives. Features interviews with Ringo Starr from The Beatles, Taylor Hawkins from Foo Fighters, Stewart Copeland from The Police, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann from Grateful Dead, Chad Smith from Red Hot Chili Peppers, and more.
Bonus Features: Trailers
BURIED: THE 1982 ALPINE MEADOWS AVALANCHE
Street Date: 11/8/22 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: In 1982, a massive avalanche descended on Alpine Meadows Ski Resort in Lake Tahoe, California that triggered a desperate five day search for eight missing people. Buried chronicles the third deadliest avalanche in US history, the miraculous rescue efforts and the traumas that still haunt the survivors today.
Bonus Features: Trailers
LOVE, CHARLIE: THE RISE AND FALL OF CHARLIE TROTTER
Street Date: 11/22/22 (DVD Only)
*This film will be available in select theaters and on VOD platforms on 11/18
Synopsis: The rise and fall of chef Charlie Trotter, who revolutionized American cuisine and paved the way for today’s celebrity chefs. His eponymous Chicago restaurant was one of the world’s top dining destinations. With exclusive access to never-before-seen material, the film reveals Trotter’s relentless pursuit of excellence. Featuring Anthony Bourdain, Grant Achatz, Emeril Lagasse, and Wolfgang Puck
Bonus Features: Trailers
BILLY FLANIGAN: THE HAPPIEST MAN ON THE PLANET
Street Date: 11/15/22 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: The inspiring journey of Walt Disney World legend Billy Flanigan from his daunted childhood to a life free of fear, shame, and secrets, all while brightening lives – one Flanigram at a time.
Bonus Features: Trailers
Street Date: 11/1/22 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: One of the world’s most elusive and admired choreographers, Paul Taylor was on the cutting edge of modern dance for over 60 years and helped shape the artform until his death in 2018. Beginning in 2010 he allowed the camera to delve into his creative process. Centered on Taylor’s guiding voice, audiences can see how a new dance gets hammered out to perfection, through sweat and inspiration. Paul Taylor: Creative Domain is an inside look at a genius at work – creating something metaphysical from emotion, inspiration and bodies in action.
Bonus Features: Dance on Camera Festival Q&A | Interview with Paul Taylor Dance Company Artistic Director Michael Novak | Trailer
RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE: THE MAKING OF A WESTERN OPERA
Street Date: 11/8/22 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: Riders of the Purple Sage: The Making of a Western Opera follows a classically trained composer as he adapts a dime novel masterpiece into a grand opera. In 1912, Zane Grey’s ‘Riders of the Purple Sage’ flew off bookshelves around the world and today is recognized by the Library of Congress as “One Hundred Books that Shaped America.”
A century later, composer Craig Bohmler takes shelter in Zane Grey’s cabin during a rainstorm. There, amidst posters from Grey’s Hollywood Westerns, Bohmler discovers a story with the grand dimensions of opera; he decides then and there to mount the legendary frontier novel for the operatic stage. Alongside a team of designers, musicians, singers, and fine art painter Ed Mell, Bohmler translates America’s cowboy culture and sprawling beauty of the West ?into the realm of Puccini and Verdi.
Street Date: 11/22/22 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: The Book Keepers follows the uplifting journey of a husband who keeps his wife’s dream alive by becoming the spokesperson for her book after her death. Carol Wall’s debut memoir – about cancer, friendship, and cultivating an open heart – was a breakout success. But joy turned to tragedy when the breast cancer she wrote about returned, and she died months after its publication. Carol’s husband, Dick, determined to help her life-affirming message find its audience, becomes the book’s unlikely spokesperson and embarks on a nationwide book tour. He’s joined by the couple’s filmmaker son, Phil, who captures his dad’s efforts to ensure her dream lives on. The result is an intimate portrait of love and loss – an ode to the healing power of storytelling.
Bonus Features: Trailers
AFTER THE MURDER OF ALBERT LIMA
Street Date: 11/1/22 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: Paul Lima has spent over a decade seeking justice for his slain father, Albert. Though convicted, Albert’s murderer has remained free in Honduras. Frustrated with the failings of the legal system, Paul takes the unorthodox, and highly dangerous, step of hiring two bounty hunters to track down the killer and finally make him pay. This riveting and at times darkly comedic thriller explores both the importance of family and the myriad dangers of taking the law into your own hands.
Bonus Features:Audio commentary by director Aengus James | Theatrical trailer
Street Date: 11/1/22 (DVD Only)
Synopsis: John Hughes spin on the classic Cyrano de Bergerac story. When Chris, the coolest guy in school discovers that Roxy sees through his popularity and good looks, he enlists Cy to reverse catfish her-letting him take over his social media accounts to add substance to his style. Signals are crossed, hearts are broken, but in this post-modern rom-com, nothing turns as you’d expect.
Bonus Features: Deleted Scenes | Trailers
Street Date: 11/22/22
Synopsis: One Hundred Steps (2000) tells the shocking story of Peppino Impastato (Luigi Lo Cascio), a young left-wing activist who vocally opposed the mafia in the 1970s and paid a brutal price. This was an era when almost nobody dared to speak about the mafia in Sicily, and several politicians maintained that it did not even exist. Impastato repeatedly denounced local mob boss Tano Badalamenti’s (Tony Sperandeo) criminal activities and the whole mafia system by broadcasting his ironically funny political pronouncements over a small local radio station. His passionate diatribes earn him a loyal audience, as well as the growing ire of the mob, whose irritation grown into violent retribution. Nominated at the 2001 Golden Globes for Best Foreign Film.
Bonus Features: Audio commentary by writer and actor Andrea Purgatori
Street Date: 9/27/22
Synopsis: The Scent of the Crime (1998) is a provocative thriller in which a former policeman turns full-time criminal and goes on a downward spiral in 1990s Rome. Remo (Valerio Mastandrea) is a disgruntled cop who pads his income by raiding rich people’s houses with a group of thugs. Because of his hatred for discipline he is soon dismissed from the force, while continuing his criminal escapades full time…until he gets arrested. When he is released, he tries to live a normal life but the debts he has incurred keep pulling him back to the life of a robber.
Bonus Features: Optional English Subtitles
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