Kino Lorber Unveils October Releases Including Acclaimed International TV, Beloved Docs & More

Kino Lorber has unveiled some of the details of their October 2024 Blu-Ray and DVD releases from their Kino Lorber, MHz Choice, Cohen Media Group, Greenwich Entertainment, Cinephobia Releasing, and Raro Video imprints. Get all the details on this incredibly packed lineup below:

SEBASTIAN

Street Date: 10/1/24

Synopsis: In this queer drama, we follow Max, a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London’s cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a sex worker with the pseudonym Sebastian, meeting men via an escorting platform. Max uses his experiences as Sebastian to fuel his stories, and the worthy debut novel that he has been longing to write finally seems within reach. As Max increasingly struggles to remain in control of a delicately balanced double-life, he must reckon with whether Sebastian is merely a writer’s tool in their quest for the ultimate sense of first-hand authenticity – or whether something more is at stake.

Bonus Features: Theatrical Trailer | Audio Description

THE BOY IN THE WOODS

Street Date: 10/15/24

Synopsis: The Boy in the Woods tells the remarkable true story of Max (Jett Klyne), a Jewish boy escaping Nazi persecution in Eastern Europe. After he is separated from his family, Max finds refuge with Christian peasant Jasko (Richard Armitage), who hides him in plain sight until a tense stand-off with Nazi police. Afraid for his own family’s life, Jasko sends Max to live in the woods where he learns to survive alone. With echoes of a Grimms’ Fairy Tale, Max’s experience is both terrifying and magical. He inhabits a landscape crawling with Nazis, partisans and haunted by ghosts. Based on the best-selling memoir by Canadian Holocaust survivor Maxwell Smart and inspired by the award-winning documentary Cheating Hitler: Surviving The Holocaust.

Bonus Features: Trailers

BABYLON BERLIN: SEASON 4

Street Date: 10/15/24

Synopsis: Season 4 of the international hit series Babylon Berlin is set in 1930s Germany, just after the global stock market crash and the Great Depression, and with the Nazis’ march to power in full swing. The story centers on detective Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) and his ambitious colleague Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries). As Gereon’s investigations lead him into the fixed fights of the boxing world – and politically, uncomfortably close to Hitler’s militant supporters – Charlotte risks her job to help her homeless sister, who roams the streets of Berlin with a group of young peers, fighting for survival.

Bonus Features: Trailers

THE FALLING STAR

Street Date: 10/15/24

Synopsis: Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel (THE FAIRY, LOST IN PARIS) delight audiences with their blend of slapstick and burlesque. Their latest “crime movie” transmutes the codes of film noir through their characteristically colorful palette and clownish plot twists. Abel plays Boris, a former activist hiding from his dark past, keeping in the shadows as a barkeeper, until a one-armed vigilante finally hunts him down. The fortuitous appearance of a double—the depressive recluse Dom (also played by Abel) seems to offer the perfect decoy. But his tenacious and loopy ex-wife, the private eye Fiona (Gordon), could foil their master plan. Abel and Gordon’s memorable dose of hilarity seems perfectly calibrated to the social mood; each deceptively minimalistic set piece brims with a cinematic intelligence that recalls Tati and Keaton. The cast features Philippe Martz and Bruno Romy and the Japanese dancer Kaori Ito, who plays a willful and hilariously unpredictable femme fatale.

Bonus Features: Theatrical Trailer

THE THROWBACK

Street Date: 10/22/24

Synopsis: The Throwback follows the hilarious journey of Kate (Justina Machado, Six Feet Under) and Matt Morgan (Will Sasso, MadTV), a middle-aged couple stuck in the routine of raising their kids. Their lives take a wild turn when Kate experiences a post-traumatic breakdown, regressing to her college-aged self after a bank robbery, erasing 26 years of memories. While Matt steps up to manage home and school duties, Kate grapples with her newfound youth. As Kate rediscovers her party-girl self, Matt undergoes his own transformation with the help of his wise-cracking pal Charles (Bobby Lee, Pineapple Express), realizing his mistakes and striving to be a better husband and father. The Throwback is an uproarious tale of second chances that proves it’s never too late for change.

Bonus Features: Trailers

MADE IN ENGLAND: THE FILMS OF POWELL & PRESSBURGER

Street Date: 10/29/24

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese first encountered the films of Powell and Pressburger when he was a child, sitting in front of the family TV. When their famous logo came up on screen, Scorsese says, “You knew you were in for fantasy, wonder, magic – real film magic.” With Made in England he tells the story of his lifelong love-affair with their movies, including The Life and Death Of Colonel Blimp, Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffmann. “Certain films you simply run all the time and you live with them.” Scorsese says. “As you grow older they grow deeper. I’m not sure how it happens, but it does. For me, that body of work is a wondrous presence, a constant source of energy, and a reminder of what life and art are all about.” Drawing on a rich array of archive material, Scorsese explores in full the collaboration between the Englishman Powell and the Hungarian Pressburger – two romantics and idealists, who thrived in the face of adversity during World War II but were eventually brought low by the film industry of the 1950’s. Scorsese celebrates their ability to create “subversive commercial movies” and describes how deeply their films have influenced his own work.

Bonus Features: Theatrical Trailer

THE SUMMER WITH CARMEN

Street Date: 10/15/24 (DVD Only)

Synopsis: This charming, sun-splashed gay friendship comedy is set at a nude beach near Athens. There, best friends Demosthenes (Yorgos Tsiantoulas) and Nikitas (Andreas Labropoulos) begin to brainstorm ideas for a screenplay based on the colorful events of a previous summer. Nikitas, who fancies himself the next Xavier Dolan and Demos, who dreams of a Hemsworth brother playing him take their memories. blends its intersecting narratives, as memory collides with fantasy and art rubs up against truth. With a fresh, metatextual perspective on storytelling, this ‘film within a film’ shifts timelines while delivering a funny and poignant look at gay relationships, friendships, intimacy… and pet ownership.

Bonus Features: Trailers

RIOT IN A WOMEN’S PRISON

Street Date: 10/8/24

Synopsis: Gorgeous young French tourist Martine (Martine Brochard) gets arrested while on vacation in Italy. After being found guilty of a trumped-up drug possession charge, Martine finds herself incarcerated at a hellish women’s penitentiary where the inmates are subjected to mental and physical torture by the staff and fellow felons alike. Things are compounded in severity when a riot breaks out in the prison, and Martine struggles to maintain her sanity. Soon it becomes every inmate for herself!

Bonus Features: Audio commentary by Film Historians Troy Howarth and Eugenio Ercolani

CLOSE TO YOU

Street Date: 10/8/24 (DVD Only)

Synopsis: Academy Award® Nominee Elliot Page (Juno, The Umbrella Academy, Inception) stars as a trans man who returns to his hometown for the first time in years. On his journey, he confronts his relationship with his family, reunites with a first love, and discovers a newfound confidence in himself.

Bonus Features:  Trailers

COUP!

Street Date: 10/8/24 (DVD Only)

Synopsis: A mysterious grifter appears on an isolated seaside estate claiming to be a wealthy family’s new chef. When a plague descends on the island, the mischievous cook rouses his fellow staff to rebel and take over the mansion. The servant becomes the master in this outrageous eat-the-rich comedy starring Peter Sarsgaard (The Batman, Dopesick) and Billy Magnussen (Road House, No Time to Die).

Bonus Features:  Trailers

HAPPY CLOTHES: A FILM ABOUT PATRICIA FIELD

Street Date: 10/15/24 (DVD Only)

Synopsis: Enter the colorful world of Emmy®-winning, Oscar®-nominated Patricia Field, savvy retailer and costume designer behind Sex and the City, Emily in Paris, Ugly Betty, and The Devil Wears Prada. A queer, first-generation Greek-American, this fiery redhead defied the odds to become a fashion icon. Features interviews with Kim Cattrall, Lily Collins, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael Urie, Vanessa Williams, and more.

Bonus Features: Trailers