Kino Lorber - Experience Cinema

The AIDS Show

History · Documentary

THE AIDS SHOW combines excerpts from a collaborative piece of theatre written in an unprecedented health crisis with interviews from the show's creators and performers, producing a powerful hybrid of documentary and drama about the community most affected by the disease – gay men.

Confidence

Period Drama · Academy Award Nominees · Drama

1980's Confidence was nominated for the Academy Award and Szabó won Berlin's Silver Bear for Best Director. In World War II-era Hungary, the resistance pairs two unrelated members to act as husband and wife in an effort to stay hidden in plain sight. Will they be able to maintain the illusion…

The Draughtsman's Contract

Drama

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.

The Falls

Standing at a pivotal point in his filmography, poised between his earlier, witty shorts and the unique pleasures of his post-DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT oeuvre, THE FALLS is arguably the most significant film of Peter Greenaway’s prolific career. Shot as a pseudo-documentary, this magnum opus dazz…

Mephisto

Period Drama · Cannes Film Festival · Based on True Story

The 1981 Academy Award-winning (Best Foreign Language Film) Mephisto concerns a passionate, but struggling actor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) who remains in Germany during the Nazi regime and reaps the rewards of this Faustian pact by finally achieving the stardom he has long craved.

Two Friends

Lesbian · Drama

The first feature film by director Jane Campion and writer Helen Garner tells the history a teenage friendship going backward in time, from the relationship's bittersweet end to its hopeful beginning.

Variety

Neo-Noir · Cannes Film Festival · Cult

Christine (Sandy McLeod) takes a job selling tickets at a porno theater near Times Square. Christine develops an obsession that begins to consume her life. Few films deal honestly with a female sexual point-of-view, controversial and highly personal, VARIETY does just this.

A Zed and Two Noughts

A masterpiece of modern cinema, A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS is Peter Greenaway’s beautifully disturbing and darkly humorous take on erotic obsession and death.