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Comedy of Power
The latest thriller from French New Wave veteran Claude Chabrol is a timely and provocative account of corporate and political corruption was inspired by a real-life scandal involving a French oil giant and several top-level politicians. |
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Blame it on Fidel
Caught up in the political revolution sweeping France in the early 1970s, Fernando (Stefano Accorsi) and Marie (Julie Depardieu) reject the comforts of their bourgeois life and dedicate themselves full time to radical activism. |
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Fantomas
Louis Feuillade's 5 1/2-hour epic follows Fantômas, the criminal lord of Paris, master of disguise, the creeping assassin in black, as he is pursued by the equally resourceful Inspector Juve and journalist Jerôme Fandor. |
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La Chinoise
Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with this swiftly paced satire. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Leaud) and Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky), form a Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. |
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Home
A family enjoys an idyllic existence in their isolated, ramshackle home, which edges onto an abandoned highway. Almost entirely cut off from society at large, they forge their own Utopia, but everything changes when city trucks roll in to complete the road’s construction, allowing rush hour traffic to start rumbling by. Stars Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher). |
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Army of Crime
In Robert Guédiguian’s taut, internationally acclaimed thriller, set during the French Resistance, Armenian poet Missak Manouchian (Simon Abkarian) and his French wife (Virginie Ledoyen) lead a ragtag assortment of volunteers — Jews, Poles, Hungarians, Italians, Spaniards and Armenians — in an assassination plot against the German occupiers and their French allies. |
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Two in the Wave
Directors Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut changed the face of cinema forever as members of the French New Wave. TWO IN THE WAVE documents their intensely combative and creative relationship. |
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La France
An intoxicating blend of wartime romance and brightly colored musical, the film depicts an original world “where Bresson meets the Beatles” (Variety). |
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Gaumont Treasures (1897-1913)
By arrangement with Gaumont Films, Kino International is proud to announce an important new Box Set featuring over 75 restored early Gaumont productions. |
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Back to Normandy
Filmmaker Nicolas Philibert (To Be and to Have, In the Land of the Deaf) travels to the Normandy countryside to catch up with the locals he helped cast in a movie three decades earlier - a starting point for a remarkably rich exploration of memory, history, madness, life and death, and, of course, the cinema. |
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Louvre City
LOUVRE CITY takes the form of one of the classic symphonies of the 1920s, which begin at daybreak, end at nightfall, and chronicle the lives of urban dwellers at work and at play. Rather than focus on its familiar role as a monument to high culture, director Nicolas Philibert shows us the everyday life of the museum and how it operates. |
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One Day You'll Understand
As the trial of Klaus Barbie is being televised throughout France a family is forced to confront its past in Nazi occupied France. Victor discovers that his mother Rivka (Jeanne Moreau) has been hiding a terrible secret. As Victor searches to find the truth about his family history, particularly the fate of his maternal grandparents his mother tells him that "Some day you will understand". Directed by famed Israeli director Amos Gitai (KADOSH, KIPPUR) and based on the autobiographical novel "LATER" by Jerome Clement.
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Lady Chatterley | Extended European Edition
Kino is now proud to present Lady Chatterley in a new, two-part,
Extended European Edition featuring nearly an hour of additional material
excluded from the film's theatrical cut. |
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Monsieur Hire
At last on DVD! Touching, lyrical, erotic, suspenseful and enigmatic, Monsieur Hire is both "a
twisted love story and a tragic thriller" (London Sunday Times). |
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10th District Court
Go behind closed doors with renowned director Raymond Depardon (winner of 3 Cesar Awards) for a rare, inside look at a Paris courtroom. |
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Triple Agent
True lies are given a historical spin in Eric Rohmer's invigoratingly ambitious Triple Agent. |
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Flanders
A twist of fate puts the two men side by side in combat where their undeclared personal war and the one they are fighting tragically merge. |
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You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Based on two works by the playwright Jean Anouilh,You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet opens with a who's-who of French acting royalty (including Mathieu Amalric, Michel Piccoli and frequent Resnais muse Sabine Azema) being summoned to the reading of a late playwright's last will and testament. |
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I Killed My Mother
Focusing on the relationship between Hubert Minel (Xavier Dolan), a 16-year-old Quebecois living in suburban Montreal, and his single mother Chantale (Anne Dorval), I KILLED MY MOTHER beautifully captures the anxieties of a mother-son relationship. |
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Elles
Academy Award- winner Juliette Binoche as Anne, a well-off Parisian journalist investigating the lives of two student prostitutes for a magazine article. What begins as a routine assignment, though, quickly turns personal, as Anne is drawn into the lives of these fiercely independent young women and forced to confront her own physical needs and desires. |
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Going Places
A shockingly hilarious sex comedy, GOING PLACES exposes the outrageous desires of a pair of perpetually horny twenty-something brutes, Jean-Claude (Gérard Depardieu, in the role that made him a star) and Pierrot (Patrick Dewaere).Directed by Bertrand Blier with an insouciant wit, and graced with a justly famous score by Stéphane Grappelli, GOING PLACES is "an explosively funny erotic farce - both a celebration and a satire of men's daydreams." (Pauline Kael) |
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Film Socialisme
Legendary director Jean-Luc Godard (Contempt) triumphantly returns to the screen with FILM SOCIALISME, "a remarkable and beautiful and challenging" (Glenn Kenny, MSN) essay on the state of Mediterranean life, culture and history. |
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Korkoro
In this passionate WWII drama, a tightly-knit family of Gypsies journeys through occupied France, trying to avoid the violent Vichy patrols. Directed with wit and vigor by Tony Gatlif (Latcho Drom), Korkoro unearths the hidden story of the Romany people's joys and struggles during the war. |
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A Summer in La Goulette
Three teenage girlfriends live in an apartment complex near Goulette beach in 1967, and during the summer they make a pact to lose their virginity. "An enchanting, insanely erotic comedy." - Eye Weekly |
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Water Lilies
During a summer in Paris, a love triangle develops between three girls in this provocative and perceptive portrait of teen angst and nascent sexuality. |
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The Red and the Black
Handsome and ambitious, Julien Sorel (Kim Rossi Stuart) is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins and make something of his life by adopting the code of hypocrisy by which his society operates. |
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The Pornographer
In this explicit and controversial film by Bertrand Bonello, Jacques, a popular pornographer in the 1970s, returns to the industry where he made his reputation. |
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Lady Chatterley
Pascale Ferran's intelligent, deeply moving, and exquisitely photographed Lady
Chatterley brings D.H. Lawrence's most celebrated and notorious literary work to the screen. |
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Himalaya
Academy Award nominated movie filmed over seven months in the forbidden Dolpo region of Nepal, HIMALAYA tells the story of a generational struggle for the leadership of a tiny mountain village between its proud old chief and a headstrong young caravanner. |
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The Piano Teacher (Unrated Director's Cut)
Winner of three major awards at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, THE PIANO TEACHER features a tour-de-force performance by Isabelle Huppert as Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed music professor who becomes obsessed with one of her young students. |
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Time Regained
Catherine Deneuve and John Malkovich head a brilliant cast in Ruiz's brilliant adaptation of the final installment of Marcel Proust's multi-volume Remembrance of Things Past. Time, memory, and the blending of reality and fiction combine to create an unforgettable cinematic experience, as Proust looks back on his life from his deathbed. |
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The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD is the timeless story of an aristocratic
Russian family torn apart by buried secrets and changing times. Stars Alan Bates and
Charlotte Rampling.
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Boesman & Lena
The acclaimed final film of blacklist survivor John Berry (Claudine) showcases Danny Glover and Angela Bassett in stellar performances as a South African couple whose relationship has changed dramatically under the oppression of Apartheid. Based on the play by Athol Fugard, and filmed in South Africa. |
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Zou Zou
Co-starring with Jean Gabin, Baker plays a talented Cinderella who takes the place of the lead on opening night of a musical review. With five great musical numbers including "Haiti". |
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Princess Tam Tam
An ingenious shepherdess is transformed into a bogus Indian princess of a capricious French aristocrat. This charming Continental comedy follows both the myth of Pygmalion and La Baker's own rise as an expatriate celebrity. |
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In The Land Of The Deaf
With unerring curiousity and sensitivity, director Philbert portrays the difficulties and joys of being deaf, offering vivid portraits of people of all ages coping with and surmounting their challenges. |
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Code Unknown
On a bustling Paris street corner, four separate lives intersect, setting in motion a stunning film by acclaimed filmmmaker Michael Haneke. Interweaving the stories of an actress (Juliette Binoche), her journalist boyfriend and an illegal immigrant, the film crafts a compelling portrait of life in a fractured, lonely world. |
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L'Age D'or
L'AGE D'OR, the surrealist masterpiece of 20th century cinema is now available on DVD to challenge, arouse, unnerve, amuse, and galvanize the uninitiated for generations to come. |
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La Petite Jerusalem
Winner of the script prize at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, Karin Albou's La Petite Jérusalem pits intimacy against sex and ideology against divinity, "with candor, sympathy and excellent cinematography," (Nathan Lee, The New York Times). Offering an unusual glimpse into an unseen, cloistered world, the film sensitively lays bare the souls and passions of two sisters in search of sexual and spiritual identity. |
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Therese Raquin
Star-crossed lovers Thérèse (Simone Signoret - LES DIABOLIQUES) and Laurent (Raf Vallone - BITTER RICE) think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's weakling husband "falls" from a speeding train. But it's only a matter of time before the law, their passion, or blind chance trip them up. Closer in spirit to the neorealist noir of Visconti's OSSESSIONE than its eponymous Ã��mile Zola source novel, THÃ��RÃ��SE RAQUIN is perhaps legendary director Marcel Carné's (CHILDREN OF PARADISE) last great film, made ripe for rediscovery in this newly subtitled version. |
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A Double Tour
A DOUBLE TOUR, Claude Chabrol's third film, is his debut psychological thriller, a genre he subsequently transformed in films like LES BONNES FEMMES and L'ENFER. Through "expert use of flashbacks and vignettes," (NY TIMES) Chabrol creates a lurid and disturbing melodrama of infidelity, obsession and murder at a vineyard in rural Provence. |
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La Ronde
Years before making the beloved midnight movie classic BARBARELLA, French Svengali Roger Vadim lured American sex kitten Jane Fonda overseas to collaborate on this charming, smart, and decorous sex farce based on Arthur Schnitzler's famously plotted "circle of love" stage play. Before shooting even began, director and star became lovers and when the romantic film went before the cameras, life and art intermingled freely, resulting in a bed-hopping farce that provides a vivid counterpoint to Max Ophls' 1950 version. |
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Chronicle of a Disappearance
Expatriate Elia Suleiman returned to his native Palestine after a decade in New York to search for his roots, producing a biting, satiric look at living within perhaps the world's most tempestuous region of political deadlock. "A certifiable masterpiece." - Film Comment |
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Happily Ever After
Writer-director Yvan Attal takes a "funny, observant, evanescent approach to the mysteries of human desire" (Jami Bernard, NY DAILY NEWS) in HAPPILY EVER AFTER, a bittersweet comedy about the battle of the married sexes. |
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Siren of the Tropics
Available only as a fragment for decades, Baker's first film debut establishes the rags to riches fairy tale from which her subsequent films would be cut - this time set in a conspicuously Parisian Antilles. Among the crew was a very young Luis Buñuel! |
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Let Joy Reign Supreme
LET JOY REIGN SUPREME is an extraordinarily detailed and character dense look at French monarchy, diplomacy and debauchery on the threshold of a bloody insurrection. Philippe Noiret plays the infamous Phillipe d'Orleans, uncrowned king of France, a nation divided by poverty and riddled with greed and conspiricy. |
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Life and Nothing But
One of director Tavernier's most ambitious films. With this gorgeously photographed anti-war epic, Tavernier examines the emotional hurdles that separate rich from poor, men from women, history from truth and regret from hope. Stars Philippe Noiret.(Cinema Paradiso). |
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Fanny
Set in Marseilles, the young and beautiful Fanny discovers that she is pregnant after her lover, Marius, has deserted her to follow the adventurous life of the sea. This second installation was the last in the trilogy to be adapted by Pagnol from the stage. |
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Les Bonnes Femmes
Claude Chabrol, a key New Wave filmmaker and considered the French Hitchcock" focuses on everyday lives of four young women longing for better things to create onoe of his best and most disturbing fims. France. 1960. 95 min. B&W. French w/English subtitles. Letterboxed. |
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