The Cinema Guild
The Cinema Guild Inc. is an American film distribution company. It was established by Philip Hobel and Mary-Ann Hobel, producers known for their work in documentaries and features, including the film Tender Mercies.
Since 1968, the Cinema Guild has been a distributor of both documentary and fiction films, offering distribution in all markets, including educational, non-theatrical, theatrical, television, cable, internet, and home video.
The Cinema Guild launched its own home video brand in March 2009. The company released its first Blu-ray, Marwencol, in 2011.
Internationally acclaimed filmmakers who have released films through the Cinema Guild include Claire Denis, Jacques Rivette, Agnès Varda, Pedro Costa, Béla Tarr, Hong Sang-soo, Alexander Sokurov, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and Kazik Radwanski.
The distributor has also worked with such U.S.-based independent filmmakers as Andrew Bujalski, Jem Cohen, Paul Devlin, and Matthew Porterfield.
Releases
- 24 City
- 35 Shots of Rum
- The Beaches of Agnès
- Jerichow
- The Order of Myths
- Our Beloved Month of August
- Shirin
- Around a Small Mountain
- Beeswax
- The Betrayal
- Change Nothing
- Everyone Else
- Sweetgrass
- Aurora
- Marwencol
- Putty Hill
- The Strange Case of Angelica
- The Day He Arrives
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
- Patience
- The Turin Horse
- Two Years at Sea
- Planet of Snail
- Neighboring Sounds
- Step Up to the Plate
- The Law in These Parts
- Night Across the Street
- Leviathan
- Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists
- Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner
- Museum Hours
- Viola
- The Last Time I Saw Macao
- Cousin Jules
- Manakamana
- What Now? Remind Me
- Norte, the End of History
- Stray Dogs
- Actress
- Los Angeles Plays Itself
- Maidan
- When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism
- Jauja
- Because I Was a Painter
- About Elly
- The Princess of France
- Horse Money
- Counting
- Starless Dreams
- In Pursuit of Silence
- The Wrong Light
- The Death of Louis XIV
- 4 Days in France
- On the Beach at Night Alone
- Western
- El Mar La Mar
- Claire's Camera
- The Day After
- En el Séptimo Día
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening
- The Wild Pear Tree
- Hotel by the River
- Suburban Birds
- Grass
- The Wandering Soap Opera
- End of the Century
- I'm Leaving Now
- Chinese Portrait
- I Was at Home, But...
- Liberté
- Yourself and Yours
- Sunless Shadows
- Ghost Tropic
- Film About a Father Who
- Un Film Dramatique
- Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
- The Woman Who Ran
- 499
- Isabella
- Anne at 13,000 ft.
- The Two Sights
- Expedition Content
- So Dear, So Lovely
- Introduction
- A Night of Knowing Nothing
- Rock Bottom Riser
- The Girl and the Spider
- In Front of Your Face
- Cane Fire
- I Am A Town
- Dos Estaciones
- The Novelist's Film
- Walk Up
- Human Flowers Of Flesh
- In Our Day
- Last Things
- Richland
- ''The Tuba Thieves''