Kino Lorber

421 films on Best BluraysBest video release: 94 in 4K307 in HD20 in SD7 more for audio only5 more announced

Best 4K release by tier:

Excellent
13
Solid
28
Good in DV Only
3
Disappointing
25
Worse Than BD
3

Based in United StatesFounded 1976kinolorber.com (opens in a new tab)

Films where Kino Lorber's release is the pick. How picks are made

New York distributor formed in 2009 when Kino International merged with Lorber HT Digital. Its home-video catalogue runs from silent films and world cinema (Kino Classics) to Hollywood titles licensed from MGM, Paramount, Universal and others under the Kino Lorber Studio Classics line, including a growing 4K UHD slate. Discs are Region A and many use studio-supplied masters.

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Films where Kino Lorber's release is the pick. How picks are made

One Week (1920)

Directors: Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline

Best English-Friendly & Video:

MoC or Kino Lorber Buster Keaton: The Complete Short Films 1917-1923 boxset Blu-ray

Video Notes:

No comparison available

White Fawn's Devotion: A Play Acted by a Tribe of Red Indians in America (1910)

Director: James Young Deer

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber The Exiles Blu-ray extras

Sources: filmpreservation.org (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Also available in SD Streaming by NFPF https://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/t1-white-fawn-s-devotion-1910

Mabel's Blunder (1914)

Director: Mabel Normand

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers Blu-ray

Bread (1918)

Director: Ida May Park

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers Blu-ray

Outrage (1950)

Director: Ida Lupino

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Video Notes:

HD restoration by Paramount from a 4K scan of the 35mm fine grain

Suspense. (1913)

Directors: Lois Weber & Phillips Smalley

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best Video:

No comparison available, three options:

BFI Early Women Filmmakers Collection Blu-ray
Kino Lorber Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers Blu-ray
Flicker Alley Early Women Filmmakers: An International Anthology Blu-ray

Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)

Director: Susan Seidelman

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray early 2026

Best Video:

Both Kino Lorber Blu-ray and UK Final Cut Entertainment are from the same older HD transfer, same for other Blu-ray too

Ganja & Hess (1973)

Director: Bill Gunn

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber or MoC OOP Blu-ray

Best Video:

Kino Lorber or MoC OOP Blu-ray, no comparison available

The Group (1966)

Director: Sidney Lumet

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

The Cold Blue (2018)

Director: Erik Nelson

Best English-Friendly & Video:

OOP Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Sewing Woman (1982)

Director: Arthur Dong

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Arthur Dong Collection Blu-ray

Hypocrites (1915)

Director: Lois Weber

Best English-Friendly & Video:

OOP 2018 Kino Lorber Blu-ray, or HD Streaming available

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · silentera.com (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · +1 more

Additional Info:

The 2018 Kino Lorber Blu-ray and DVD releases as part of the "Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers" set are a newer restoration than the 2008 Kino Lorber DVD, additional info on Silent Era website, but it is worth noting the order of the movie sequences are not the same between the new and old releases. A couple comparisons uploaded to slowpics. The Library of Congress has a safety duplicate negative of this film, and it is also available for viewing on Wikipedia.

Moana (1926)

Directors: Robert Flaherty & Frances H. Flaherty

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

The Blue Light (1932)

Director: Leni Riefenstahl

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

The Doll (1919)

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray or OOP MoC Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray or OOP MoC Blu-ray have different grading see caps

Additional Info:

Subjective, but the concertina score by Bernard Wrigley on the OOP MoC Blu-ray is generally regarded as very weak. For example, it frequently doesn't match the action. The Meg Morley score on the Kino Lorber Blu-ray is considered superior.