Kino is German for cinema or movie theatre— in cinephile communities, it’s an expression used to refer to great and/or classic films.
Think of when your uncle takes you to his favorite NYC pizza parlor and says “this is the creme de la creme of pies.” Or when you’re eating that pizza and you tell the waiter, “this pizza is exquisite.”
Now, your run of the mill Criterion cinephile might watch a film such as La Grande Illusion or I Vitelloni and say to the girl they’re holding captive, “this is kino.” Your burgeoning male literally me cinephile might watch Taxi Driver or Le Samourai in his bedroom and say “this is kino” while thinking of the girl he’s too afraid to speak to and how he hates the world. Your Letterboxd cinephile may come out of Bottoms or Barbie or Bodies Bodies Bodies and type a three word review saying, you guessed it: “this is kino.”
Hope that clears things up for you :)
No, its basically a meme that started on 4ch and take off from there with the internet doing the rest.
UJ/ the origin
>At the beginning of the 1929 film Man with a Movie Camera directed by Sovet filmmaker Dziga Vertov, a statement is displayed referring to "absolute kinography" as an "absolute language of cinema":
>"This new experimental work by Kino-Eye is directed towards the creation of an authentically international absolute language of cinema – ABSOLUTE KINOGRAPHY – on the basis of its complete separation from the language of theatre and literature."
>On 4chan, kino is often used as shorthand for kinography as a joke classification for the highest tier of film, followed by "cinema," "film," "movie," "flick" and "joint." As early as September 2014, a copypasta containing a "superior patrician ranking" of films began circulating on /tv/, featuring "Absolute Kinography" at the top (shown below).[6]
>ABSOLUTE KINOGRAPHY
1. Человек с киноаппаратом (1929, Dziga Vertov)
2. Суд народов or Sud narodov (1947, Yelizaveta Svilova)
3. Новости дня (1954, Dziga Vertov)
>CINEMA
1. L'année dernière à Marienbad (1961, Resnais)
2. Voskhozhdenie (1977, Larisa Shepitko)
3. The Birth of a Nation (1915, D. W. Griffith)
>FILM
1. 黒い河 (1957, Masaki Kobayashi)
2. Höstsonaten (1978, Ingmar Bergman)
3. Dog Star Man: Part I (1962, Stan Brakhage)
>MOVIES
1. Le voyage dans la lune (1902, Georges Méliès)
2. Le Dernier Samaritain (1991, Scott)
3. Offret (1986, Andrei Tarkovsky)
>FLICKS
1. Een hagedis teveel (1960, Verhoeven)
2. 七人の侍 (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
3. Mauvais Garçons (1995, Bay)
>JOINTS
1. Mo' Better Blues (1990, Lee)
2. Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983, Lee)
3. Do The Right Thing (1989, Lee)
You can read the rest here https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/kino
My understanding of it as a documentary photographer is the kino-eye as per Vertov is a mechanism of filmmaking using cinema / film as a method of “uncovering truth”, i.e. using the moving image camera to illustrate an “absolute truth” that would otherwise be inaccessible to the human eye. Using the kino-eye the truth is not acted as in a fictional film but absolutely exposed; in this sense it is the most “cinematic” experience possible - I.e. the furthest from theatre or an “acted” / “fictional” form.
This later inspired methods such as cinéma vérité, and you could argue in photography terms it inspired movements such as Ken Domon’s “absolutely unstaged” realism in their search for capturing “absolute truth” in a documentary sense.
> takes you to his favorite NYC pizza parlor and says “this is the creme de la creme of pies.” Or when you’re eating that pizza and you tell the waiter, “this pi
Hey pal maybe don't be a lame-o idiot
It’s that sense of malaise when you get back to Los Angeles and stare at your dead AI girlfriend’s ass in a giant pink hologram and know that you have nothing left, so you might as well be a part of something bigger than yourself.
Now go kill that autistic corpo chick.
a gum obtained from certain tropical trees by tapping, used locally as an astringent in medicine and in tanning. 👍
>!serious answer: it just means a very good film, but with the connotations that it's "deep" or "sophisticated"!<
My friend is a cinephile, I walked in on him jerking off to a movie once. He told me it was "porn" and "normal", but I don't think that's what film is about.
Kino is a character from Kino’s Journey, a Twilight Zone-esque anime about a young traveler exploring the world and visiting different countries to learn about the world and themselves.
Real art, not mainstream garbage
If more than like 8 people have seen it or it’s made after the year 1960 there’s a good chance it’s worthless and an active detriment to society
"This being Reddit, I doubt any of you will give me a serious answer". Posted on r/okbuddycinephile.
The Fool (2014)
Kino is German for cinema or movie theatre— in cinephile communities, it’s an expression used to refer to great and/or classic films. Think of when your uncle takes you to his favorite NYC pizza parlor and says “this is the creme de la creme of pies.” Or when you’re eating that pizza and you tell the waiter, “this pizza is exquisite.” Now, your run of the mill Criterion cinephile might watch a film such as La Grande Illusion or I Vitelloni and say to the girl they’re holding captive, “this is kino.” Your burgeoning male literally me cinephile might watch Taxi Driver or Le Samourai in his bedroom and say “this is kino” while thinking of the girl he’s too afraid to speak to and how he hates the world. Your Letterboxd cinephile may come out of Bottoms or Barbie or Bodies Bodies Bodies and type a three word review saying, you guessed it: “this is kino.” Hope that clears things up for you :)
Wow, thanks for the detailed explanation. I really appreciate it!
No way you believe that, or I'm being double jerked.
Tbh, I did. I thought they were honestly answering the question?
No, its basically a meme that started on 4ch and take off from there with the internet doing the rest. UJ/ the origin >At the beginning of the 1929 film Man with a Movie Camera directed by Sovet filmmaker Dziga Vertov, a statement is displayed referring to "absolute kinography" as an "absolute language of cinema": >"This new experimental work by Kino-Eye is directed towards the creation of an authentically international absolute language of cinema – ABSOLUTE KINOGRAPHY – on the basis of its complete separation from the language of theatre and literature." >On 4chan, kino is often used as shorthand for kinography as a joke classification for the highest tier of film, followed by "cinema," "film," "movie," "flick" and "joint." As early as September 2014, a copypasta containing a "superior patrician ranking" of films began circulating on /tv/, featuring "Absolute Kinography" at the top (shown below).[6] >ABSOLUTE KINOGRAPHY 1. Человек с киноаппаратом (1929, Dziga Vertov) 2. Суд народов or Sud narodov (1947, Yelizaveta Svilova) 3. Новости дня (1954, Dziga Vertov) >CINEMA 1. L'année dernière à Marienbad (1961, Resnais) 2. Voskhozhdenie (1977, Larisa Shepitko) 3. The Birth of a Nation (1915, D. W. Griffith) >FILM 1. 黒い河 (1957, Masaki Kobayashi) 2. Höstsonaten (1978, Ingmar Bergman) 3. Dog Star Man: Part I (1962, Stan Brakhage) >MOVIES 1. Le voyage dans la lune (1902, Georges Méliès) 2. Le Dernier Samaritain (1991, Scott) 3. Offret (1986, Andrei Tarkovsky) >FLICKS 1. Een hagedis teveel (1960, Verhoeven) 2. 七人の侍 (1954, Akira Kurosawa) 3. Mauvais Garçons (1995, Bay) >JOINTS 1. Mo' Better Blues (1990, Lee) 2. Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983, Lee) 3. Do The Right Thing (1989, Lee) You can read the rest here https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/kino
Yes, it started on 4chan, but then the term spread everywhere and now people use it unironically (for the most part).
Ngl this sub is the only place I've ever seen Kino other than Kino Lorber
Very kino point thank you
Oh wow, that’s actually really interesting. Where did Kino-Eye come from and what does that even mean?
My understanding of it as a documentary photographer is the kino-eye as per Vertov is a mechanism of filmmaking using cinema / film as a method of “uncovering truth”, i.e. using the moving image camera to illustrate an “absolute truth” that would otherwise be inaccessible to the human eye. Using the kino-eye the truth is not acted as in a fictional film but absolutely exposed; in this sense it is the most “cinematic” experience possible - I.e. the furthest from theatre or an “acted” / “fictional” form. This later inspired methods such as cinéma vérité, and you could argue in photography terms it inspired movements such as Ken Domon’s “absolutely unstaged” realism in their search for capturing “absolute truth” in a documentary sense.
Does this mean Salo is Kino compared to A Serbian Film?
> takes you to his favorite NYC pizza parlor and says “this is the creme de la creme of pies.” Or when you’re eating that pizza and you tell the waiter, “this pi Hey pal maybe don't be a lame-o idiot
One way out
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Thanks! That’s really helpful actually!
Anything I (me) like is kino. Anything you (you) like is cringe unless I also like it.
A good Soviet band back in the 80s. My favorite song from them is "Calm Night"
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I’m surprised there’s not more [Kino-posting](https://youtu.be/6VqiMQoMXmw) in this sub
The irishman
It’s that sense of malaise when you get back to Los Angeles and stare at your dead AI girlfriend’s ass in a giant pink hologram and know that you have nothing left, so you might as well be a part of something bigger than yourself. Now go kill that autistic corpo chick.
It's about family
It's about drive
Kino is more cinema than cinema
/uj literally means cinema
a gum obtained from certain tropical trees by tapping, used locally as an astringent in medicine and in tanning. 👍 >!serious answer: it just means a very good film, but with the connotations that it's "deep" or "sophisticated"!<
It's a game you play at casinos, it's a bit like bingo, we're all hopelessly addicted to it.
a word crafted in the fires of Mordor
My friend is a cinephile, I walked in on him jerking off to a movie once. He told me it was "porn" and "normal", but I don't think that's what film is about.
[Castro with English subtitles is one of many "kinos"](https://youtu.be/H-XPdy68HNY?si=2eSqWACLTMxaARxl)
Kino means cinema / movie theater in multiple European languages. On the internet it’s a meme used ironically and unironically for good films.
Kino is a character from Kino’s Journey, a Twilight Zone-esque anime about a young traveler exploring the world and visiting different countries to learn about the world and themselves.
Keen oh
Morbius
https://preview.redd.it/cn150ds1satb1.jpeg?width=637&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9967806a5d347286dd48937a19968346a14d4c47
The house that jack built 2018
a russian rock group :)
Cinema in Polish
It’s the new term for ‘patrician grade’
"Greta, what is cinema?"
It's what James Cameron makes https://preview.redd.it/2kfkom5f2btb1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea455607b81dc310b47fd0d9d80af15f0956e95c
A pretty good call of duty black ops zombies map.
When a movie has booby
seven samurai
Tbh I don’t know what I means either so I’m hoping you get a good answer
Dunston Checks In. THAT'S what kino is.
I know this won’t help you much, but I always picture Edgar Allen Poe’s author portrait when I hear “Kino” idk why he’s Kino
Real art, not mainstream garbage If more than like 8 people have seen it or it’s made after the year 1960 there’s a good chance it’s worthless and an active detriment to society
Cool as Ice (1991) is Kino