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Kino International has acquired the theatrical release of Loren Cass (2007), directed, written and edited by first-time filmmaker Chris Fuller. Nominated for a Gotham Award as one of the best undistributed films of 2007, Loren Cass is finally scheduled to premiere in New York City on July 24 at the Cinema Village. The film will expand to other major markets during the summer and fall [...]

PRESS RELEASE Kino International and KimStim are proud to release the four-DVD set Debauched Desires: Four Erotic Masterpieces by Masaru Konuma. Directed by the master of Japanese erotic cinema Masaru Konuma, CLOISTERED NUN: RUNA’S CONFESSION (1976), TATTOOED FLOWER VASE (1976), EROTIC DIARY OF AN OFFICE LADY (1977) and a re-mastered version of WIFE TO BE SACRIFICED (1975) are now available in one four-DVD set at [...]

W.C. Fields, Carol Dempster in Sally of the Sawdust Griffith Masterworks 2: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE STRUGGLE The final disc of the set contains Sally of the Sawdust (1925), a rare comedy feature starring Griffith protegee Carol Dempster and W.C. Fields. The Sally of the title (played by Dempster) performs in the circus with her "pop," Professor McGargle (Fields). Little does she know that McGargle came [...]

It may not have been terribly original of Kino to include in their 2005 Griffith Masterworks boxed set the only four D.W. Griffith features that most people could name (let alone claim to have seen), but it would have been downright perverse to pass over The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Broken Blossoms, and Orphans of the Storm (the fifth and sixth discs were made [...]