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''