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Kino Lorber

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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Directors: Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Silent Avant-Garde Blu-ray

Director: Fritz Lang

Best English-Friendly:

Eureka MoC Blu-ray

Best Video:

Eureka MoC > Kino Lorber

Director: Millard Webb

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Directors: Malcolm St. Clair & Frank Tuttle

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Philo Vance Collection Blu-ray

Director: William Wyler

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray is a brand new 4K restoration from William Wyler’s personal 35mm print

Director: Josef von Sternberg

Best English-Friendly:

Indicator Blu-ray

Best Video:

Given that Indicator Blu-ray is encoded by FiM and Kino Lorber uses the same transfer judging from different screenshots, Indicator is most likely to be better encoded.

Director: Joe May

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Director: Rouben Mamoulian

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber DVD

Director: Curtis Bernhardt

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Director: Kenneth MacPherson

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Director: Josef von Sternberg

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

All very old restoration, but Kino Lorber > Germany Universum > MoC. Kino Lorber Germany Blu-ray has more noise reduction while English version's noise reduction is kept at minimum. MoC has very week encoding and crushed blacks.

Sources:

Best Audio:

2001 Kino Lorber DVD or 2003 Eureka DVD

Director: William Campbell

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Director: George Archainbaud

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber RKO Classic Adventures Collection Blu-ray

Director: Paul L. Stein

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber DVD

Director: Fred C. Newmeyer

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Carole Lombard Collection Blu-ray

Director: Paul L. Stein

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber RKO Classic Romances Collection Blu-ray

Director: Norman Taurog

Best English-Friendly:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Best Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray 4K restoration

Director: Lewis Milestone

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray is much better than the extra in Criterion His Girl Friday Blu-ray. Even though Kino Lorber is the international cut and only restored in HD, and Criterion is the US theatrical cut, and restored in 4K, the Criterion picture quality is atrocious http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-ray_reviews_68/the_front_page_blu-ray.htm 

Directors: Leontine Sagan & Carl Froelich

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

BFI or Kino Lorber?

Sources: dvdcompare.net (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Seems like BFI similar A/V to Kino Lorber, but more extras https://www.dvdcompare.net/review.php?rid=6545

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