Kino Lorber

439 films on Best Blurays

Based in United StatesFounded 1976kinolorber.com ↗

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.

Aliases: kino, kl, kino lorber

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In Bruges (2008)

Director: Martin McDonagh

4K · Solid

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

4.1

Repo Men (2010)

Director: Miguel Sapochnik

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray

I Wish I Knew (2010)

Director: Jia Zhangke

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

Director: Jon Favreau

4K · Disappointing

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Universal Blu-ray with both cuts, Kino Lorber Blu-ray (extended cut only) included in the disappointing 4K Blu-ray and International Paramount Blu-ray (both Theatrical and Extended Blu-rays in different countries) have similar encoding.

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray disappointing review

2.4

Bert Stern - Original Madman (2011)

Director: Shannah Laumeister Stern

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Included in Kino Lorber Jazz on a Summer Day Blu-ray as 1080i extras

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (2013)

Director: Jonas Mekas

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber vs France Blu-ray?

Best Video:

Kino Lorber and France

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber and France have Boxset Blu-ray

4.1

The Killing Fields of Dr. Haing S. Ngor (2015)

Director: Arthur Dong

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Maximilian and Marie De Bourgogne (2017)

Director: Andreas Prochaska

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Best Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray or Germany Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray or Germany Blu-ray but no comparison available

Germany Blu-ray doesn’t have good encoding, with visible blocking and banding etc.

Additional Info:

Germany Blu-ray lacks English subtitles. Kino Lorber Blu-ray has English subtitles but is OOP

Kino Lorber Blu-ray retains both the French and German dialogue in their native languages.

Germany Blu-ray dubs over the French dialogue in German.

The Cold Blue (2018)

Director: Erik Nelson

Best English-Friendly & Video:

OOP Kino Lorber Blu-ray

3 Faces (2018)

Director: Jafar Panahi

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

3.6

The Image Book (2018)

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber or MUBI Blu-ray

Best Video:

No comparisons

3.4

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2018)

Director: Alexandra Dean

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

3.7

Light (2018)

Director: Tsai Ming-liang

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Available in Kino Lorber/Metrograph Goodbye, Dragon Inn Blu-ray as extra

3.4

Tenga Fe (2021)

Director: Bruce Posner

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Silent Avant-Garde Blu-ray

Charli XCX: Alone Together (2022)

Directors: Bradley Bell & Pablo Jones-Soler

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Vorkapich Montage Sequences (1928-1934) (2023)

Director: Slavko Vorkapich

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Silent Avant-Garde Blu-ray

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (2024)

Director: Johan Grimonprez

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Kino Lorber or UK Modern Films Blu-ray

Video Notes:

US Kino Lorber or UK Modern Films Blu-ray no comparison available

Oh, Canada (2024)

Director: Paul Schrader

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

3.0

Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (2025)

Director: Bruce David Klein

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

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