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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Linda Ronstadt has been an icon for more than 50 years. Her extraordinary vocal range and ambition created unforgettable songs across rock, pop, country, folk ballads, American standards, classic Mexican music, and soul. As the most popular female recording artist of the 1970s, Ronstadt filled huge arenas as no one had ever done and produced an astounding eleven platinum albums. Ronstadt was the first artist to top the Pop, Country, and R&B charts...
2) Bombshell
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and '40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII." --
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015], ©2014.
Language
English
Description
Aaron Swartz was a programming prodigy who helped shape the digital landscape of today. He helped develop the internet protocol RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit. Chronicling his pioneering efforts crusading for open access and free speech and the resulting legal nightmare and tragedy that ensued, the documentary is a dynamic and moving portrait of a brilliant tech millionaire who renounced the values of Silicon Valley startup culture and used technology...
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
An unprecedented array of never-before-seen footage of Gould, photographs, and excerpts from his private home recordings and diaries, plus personal interviews with Gould's most intimate friends and lovers, some who have never spoken about him publicly before, to reconstruct his thoughts on music, art, society, love, and life. An enigmatic musical poet, world-renowned pianist Glenn Gould continues to captivate 27 years after his untimely death.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"If it hadn't been for a bottle of scotch and a late-night visit from musician Gregg Allman, Jimmy Carter might never have been elected the 39th President of the United States. This documentary charts the mostly forgotten story of how Carter, a lover of all types of music, forged a tight bond with musicians Willie Nelson, the Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan and others." --
6) Eleni
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When her children are kidnapped and sent to communist camps inside the Iron Curtain, Eleni arranges for the escape of her three daughters and her son. For this act, Eleni is imprisoned, tortured, and executed in cold blood. Several years later, her son, now a New York Time reporter, returns to his homeland to discover the facts surrounding his mother₂s death and to hunt down the man who murdered her.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The inspiring story of Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Harry Chapin. Chapin sold over sixteen million albums and was one of his generation's most beloved artists and activists who spent his fame and fortune trying to end world hunger before his tragic passing. The film features a myriad of other performers intimately reflecting on Chapin's larger-than-life impact on music and the world." --
Publisher
MUBI
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
日本語
Description
"One of the most important artists of the era, Ryuichi Sakamoto has had a prolific career spanning over four decades. From techno-pop stardom to Oscar-winning film composer, the evolution of his music has coincided with his life journeys. Following the Fukushima disaster, Sakamoto became an iconic figure in Japan's social movement against nuclear power. As Sakamoto returns to music following a cancer diagnosis, his haunting awareness of life crises...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A documentary about legendary photographer Bill Cunningham features photographs chosen from over three million previously unpublicized images and documents from the iconic street photographer and fashion historian. Told in Cunningham's own words from a 1994 interview, the photographer chronicles moonlighting as a milliner in France during the Korean War, his unique relationship with First Lady Jackie Kennedy, his four decades at The New York Times...
10) The keeper
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When a German POW is signed to the Manchester football club as a goalie, the public outcry from fans -- especially Jews -- is overwhelming. With the support of Rabbi Alexander Altmann and the British woman he loves, together they overcome prejudice, public hostility, and personal tragedy." --
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by family, friends, and notebooks from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain, he talked about his life and work, his abiding sense of wonder at the natural world, and the place of human beings within it. Drawing on these deeply personal reflections, as well...
12) Love, Cecil
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Lisa Immordino Vreeland directs this documentary about Academy Award-winning costume designer Cecil Beaton. A respected photographer, artist and set designer, Beaton was best known for designing on award winning films such as "Gigi" (1958) and "My Fair Lady" (1964). The film features archive footage and interviews with a number of models, artists and filmmakers who worked closely with Beaton during his illustrious career." --
Publisher
Alive Mind Cinema
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Nicholas Vreeland walked away from a worldly life of privilege to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Grandson of legendary Vogue editor, Diana Vreeland, and trained by Irving Penn to become a photographer, Nicholas' life changed drastically upon meeting a Tibetan master, one of the teachers of the Dalai Lama.
14) Promise at dawn
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
"From his difficult childhood in Poland to his career in the air force in Africa during World War II, Romain Gary has lived an extraordinary life. He owes this relentless enterprise to his mother Nina. It's the wild love of his eccentric and endearing mother that drives him to become one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century, to lead a life full of twists, passion, and mystery. But this unconditional maternal love also be a burden that...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Italiano
Description
"Fariborz Kamkari's documentary about the life and career of Carlo Di Palma is as much a portrait of the late cinematographer, known for his inventive work with such directors as Woody Allen, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Elio Petri, as it is a journey through the last 70 years of world cinema." --
16) The grey fox
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After decades in prison, stagecoach robber Bill Miner emerges in 1901 a free man without a place in twentieth-century society. Times have changed, but in the face of all these changes, neither his good-humored patience nor his joy of life has abandoned him. With the vigor of a teenager, Miner sees a screening of one of the first films, The Great Train Robbery, and is inspired to once again do what he does best." --
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The world knows Paul Newman as an Academy Award winning actor with a fifty-plus year career as one of the most prolific and revered actors in American Cinema. He was also well known for his philanthropy; Newman's Own has given more than four hundred and thirty million dollars to charities around the world. Yet few know the gasoline-fueled passion that became so important in this complex, multifaceted man's makeup.
19) Deep web
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Explores the case of convicted cybercrimal Ross William Ulbricht and the Silk Road, Ulbricht's site on the dark web used for anonymously trafficking illegal drugs with the electronic currency Bitcoin.
20) I want to live!
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Arrested for fatally beating an elderly widow, Barbara Graham at first goads the police, refusing to answer their questions. But when an alleged accomplice turns state's evidence, Graham insists that she is innocent. Condemned by the press and the public, Graham is found guilty of murder and sentenced to die in the gas chamber. With her execution date getting near, Graham desperately attempts to expose the truth and save her life against all odds."...
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