Aliases: kino, kl, kino lorber
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Directors: Lois Weber & Phillips Smalley
Kino Lorber Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers Blu-ray
Kino Lorber The Wildcat Blu-ray or MoC Madame Dubarry Blu-ray
Available in Kino Lorber The Wildcat Blu-ray as extras, or MoC Madame Dubarry Blu-ray but OOP
Director: Ida May Park
Kino Lorber Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers Blu-ray
Director: Maurice Tourneur
AlphaVideo or Kino Lorber OOP or Grapevine OOP DVD
No comparison available
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
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.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
MoC vs Kino Lorber?
MoC vs Kino Lorber no comparison, but seems to be the same restoration
Directors: Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline
MoC or Kino Lorber Buster Keaton: The Complete Short Films 1917-1923 boxset Blu-ray
No comparison available
Kino Lorber Blu-ray, old HD master
Director: D.W. Griffith
Sources: moma.org (opens in a new tab)
New digitized edition of MoMA’s definitive 1979 photochemical restoration, no release yet https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/11556
Mastered in HD from the Museum of Modern Art's 35mm restoration, with original color tints
Director: George Melford
Sources: therealmofsilence.com (opens in a new tab)
Kino Lorber OOP Blu-ray is exactly the same restoration as the later Paramount Blu-ray, however Paramount Blu-ray runs at a much faster 24fps while Kino Lorber runs at 21fps. According to Paul Cuff's research into the correct fps and length, Kino Lorber is closest to the original 22fps by repeating frames to achieve 21fps in 24fps.
Kino Lorber has the same Bellon score as Paramount VHS and Paramount Blu-ray, but obviously Paramount Blu-ray runs a faster tempo due to changed fps
The Bellon score never uses the “Kashmiri Song” that is cited in the film’s intertitles and sung by Valentino on screen. This may well be because the intertitles of the VHS version (for which the score was composed) are from the reissue print, which changes the wording of the Sheik’s song—and thus loses the context of the original song.
While no substitute for a real orchestra, the theatre organ score by Ben Model for the Kino Lorber edition at least quotes the “Kashmiri Song” at the appropriate moments.
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Directors: Charles Sheeler & Paul Strand
Kino Lorber Silent Avant-Garde Blu-ray
Directors: Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton
MoC or Kino Lorber Buster Keaton: The Shorts Collection 1917-1923 Blu-ray boxset
(a newer restoration by Lobster Films compared to the older 1920-1923 boxset)
No comparison between MoC and Kino Lorber available
MoC boxset has more extras and commentary tracks, while also providing a 184-page book, a substantially better extras package compared to Kino Lorber
Director: Dimitri Buchowetzki
Kino Lorber Varieté (1925) Blu-ray
Included as extras in Kino Lorber Varieté (1925) Blu-ray, but it's in really rough conditions even though technically in a 1080p container
Director: Robert Thornby
Even though Kino Lorber released it in a Blu-ray, it's actually 480p...
Director: Fritz Lang
Kino Lorber vs MoC?
Kino Lorber and MoC same resto, no comparison
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