Kino Lorber Studio Classics
Kino Lorber's dedicated imprint for releasing landmark world cinema and arthouse films in premium home entertainment formats for North American film enthusiasts.
Overview
Kino Lorber operates a dedicated world cinema home entertainment imprint that releases landmark arthouse and international films in premium Blu-ray and 4K formats for the North American collector market. This imprint focuses on films from the arthouse and world cinema tradition -- European auteur cinema, Asian cinema classics, and significant international productions -- that have not received premium treatment from other US home video companies.
The imprint complements Kino Lorber's theatrical distribution activity, providing home entertainment depth for the same films the company releases theatrically in the US. Films that Kino Lorber distributes theatrically naturally flow into the home entertainment pipeline under the imprint, creating a vertically integrated theatrical-to-home-video pathway that maximises the commercial return from each acquisition.
World Cinema Focus
The imprint's world cinema focus distinguishes it from KL Studio Classics (which focuses on Hollywood studio catalog) and positions it alongside Criterion Collection in serving the serious world cinema collector audience. Films from the European arthouse tradition, significant Asian directors, and major international filmmakers form the core of the catalog.
For world cinema filmmakers and rights holders, Kino Lorber's home entertainment imprint provides access to the North American collector market for arthouse cinema -- an audience that actively purchases high-quality physical media editions of important international films.
What Filmmakers Should Know
For rights holders of significant arthouse and world cinema films seeking North American home entertainment distribution, Kino Lorber's imprints collectively represent one of the most important specialty home video distributors in the market. The company's theatrical distribution relationships give it a natural pathway for films from Kino Lorber's theatrical catalog into home entertainment.
See Also
For Kino Lorber's full operation including theatrical distribution, see the Kino Lorber entry in this directory. For the premium collector end of the world cinema home entertainment market, see Criterion Collection in this directory.
