Collecting, preserving, presenting 16mm films in Portland, Maine

Portland Press Herald: Kinonik is devoted to preserving, sharing movie history

“By sharing the collection and its wide-ranging view of film history, the volunteers who run Kinonik hope to not only keep the films in good condition, but to help new generations understand what the communal experience of seeing film prints, in a group with others, can feel like.” (Photo: Brianna Soukup)

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High Noon ON 6/11 AT |KINONIK|

Though mired in controversy at the time of its release due to its political themes, the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four (Actor, Editing, Score and Song) as well as four Golden Globe Awards (Actor, Supporting Actress, Score, and Black and White Cinematography). The award-winning score was written by Ukraine-born composer Dimitri Tiomkin.

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Norma Rae ON 6/18 AT |KINONIK|

The film follows Norma Rae Webster, a factory worker with little formal education in North Carolina who, after she and her co-workers’ health are compromised due to poor working conditions, becomes involved in trade union activities at the textile factory where she works.

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The Man in the White Suit ON 6/25 AT |KINONIK|

The film follows an Ealing Studios theme of the “common man” against the Establishment. In this instance the hero falls foul of both trade unions and the wealthy mill owners who attempt to suppress his invention.

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SCANDAL ON 7/2 AT |KINONIK|

Scandal was described by Akira Kurosawa himself as a protest film about “the rise of the press in Japan and its habitual confusion of freedom with license. Personal privacy is never respected and the scandal sheets are the worst offenders.”

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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ON 7/9 AT |KINONIK|

A rebellious young man gains privileges in the institution through his prowess as a long-distance runner, but reveries of important events before his incarceration that he has during his solitary runs lead him to re-evaluate his status as the prize athlete of the Governor.

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BOYS DON’T CRY ON 7/16 AT |KINONIK|

The film dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena, an American trans man who attempts to find love and himself in Nebraska but falls victim to a brutal hate crime perpetrated by two male acquaintances.

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Here Is Your Life ON 7/23 AT |KINONIK|

A Swedish coming-of-age film about a working-class boy growing up in the northern parts of Sweden.

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rififi ON 7/30 AT |KINONIK|

Directed by American blacklisted filmmaker Jules Dassin, the film stars Jean Servais as the aging gangster Tony “le Stéphanois”, Carl Möhner as Jo “le Suédois”, Robert Manuel as Mario Farrati, and Jules Dassin as César “le Milanais”. The foursome band together to commit an almost impossible theft, the burglary of an exclusive jewelry shop in the Rue de la Paix.

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ASHES AND DIAMONDS ON 8/6 AT |KINONIK|

Based on the novel that directly supported the postwar Communist system in Poland, was subtly modified in comparison with the source material. Andrzej Wajda sympathized with the soldiers of the Polish independence underground; thus, he devoted most of the attention to former Home Army soldier Maciek Chełmicki, who is acting in the anti-Communist underground.

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THE TRIAL ON 8/13 AT |KINONIK|

A 1962 American-French drama film written and directed by Orson Welles, based on the 1925 posthumously published novel of the same name by Franz Kafka. Welles stated immediately after completing the film: “The Trial is the best film I have ever made.”

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Past Screenings

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ON 6/4 AT |KINONIK|

The film was controversial in the US when it was first released, with attacks from many politicians claiming that it brought Washington into disrepute, but it was very successful at both the domestic and international box offices. Get Tickets

Heavens Above on 5/28 AT |Kinonik|

1953, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot Get Tickets

Dr. Strangelove ON 5/21, 5/24 AT |Kinonik|

1953, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot Get Tickets

Knife In The Water ON 5/14 AT |Kinonik|

1953, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot Get Tickets

Vivre sa vie ON 5/7 and 5/10 AT |Kinonik|

1953, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot Get Tickets

The Philadelphia Story ON 4/30 AT |KINONIK|

“One of the essential American comedies.” - David Thomson Get Tickets

The Servant ON 4/23 AT |KINONIK|

"The Servant stands almost alone. You’d have to seek out two other guys-go-mad-in-a-flat movies, Performance and Dead Ringers, to find anything that approaches its atmosphere of febrile desperation and deepening identity confusion." - Tom Huddleston, Time Out Get...

La Notte ON 4/16 AT |KINONIK|

A day and a night in the life of a troubled marriage, set against Milan’s gleaming modern buildings, its gone-to-seed older quarters, and a sleek modern estate, all shot in razor-sharp b&w crispness by the great Gianni di Venanzo. Get Tickets

The Love of Jeanne Ney ON 4/13 AT |pCm|

The Love of Jeanne Ney was made two years after The Joyless Street and two years before Pabst’s best-known masterpiece, Pandora’s Box; all three films cast a sharp eye on the treatment of women. Get Tickets

The Organizer ON 4/9 AT |KINONIK|

Near the turn of the 20th century, textile workers misfire on their first attempt to knock down their 14-hour day. But then bespectacled, bearded professor Marcello Mastroianni arrives to get things organized. Get Tickets

8 1/2 ON 4/5 AT |KINONIK|

(1963) directed by Federico Fellini Get Tickets

FORBIDDEN GAMES ON 3/26 AT |KINONIK|

A modern film would back away from the horror of death in wartime and soften and sentimentalize it. In all times children survived experiences no child should have to endure. Sometimes they’re able to shield their innocence by creating games to process the pain....

THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH ON 3/19 AT |KINONIK|

Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of his 1934 black-and-white English thriller as a star-laden Hollywood production in Technicolor with Doris Day and James Stewart as a vacationing couple whose child becomes the pawn in an assassination plot. Get Tickets

Asphalt ON 3/16 AT |PCM|

Amateur Movie Day on 3/13 AT |KINONIK|

1953, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot Get Tickets

55 Days At Peking ON 3/12 AT |KINONIK|

Nicholas Ray's 55 Days At Peking (1963) dramatizes the Battle of Peking, a turning point of the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900. When Dowager Empress Tzu-Hsi (Flora Robson) orders the Boxers, a group of Chinese secret societies, to massacre foreigners within China, a...

Rope ON 3/5 AT |KINONIK|

Rope (1948) is a photographic tour de force. There is not a single cut in the film; it was shot on one set, in solid ten-minute reels, and the end of each reel dissolves into the beginning of the next. The action is continuous for 80 minutes' playing time. The flow of...

Nothing But A Man ON 2/26 AT |space|

Michael Roemer's 1964 film about a black man and his school-teacher wife facing discrimination in 1960s America. Get Tickets Kinonik is a...

He Who Gets Slapped ON 2/23 AT |PCM|

In He Who Gets slapped (1924), one of only 32 complete films surviving from leading man Lon Chaney’s career, who by 1924 had been in 133 films, a scientist turned circus clown performs his fall from academic grace and marital cuckolding to riotous applause. Having...

LA STRADA ON 2/19 AT |Kinonik|

Federico Fellini's 1954 classic about a care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way. Zampano!

Stalag 17 ON 2/12 AT |KINONIK|

Show added! Feb. 12 – matinee and evening shows - 2 PM and 7 PM After two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer. 1953. Billy Wilder. [button...

Hail Mafia ON 2/5 AT |KINONIK|

Jack Klugman is torn between his orders and the loyalty he feels to his old pal, Eddie. An intriguing look at the emotional make-up of Mafia hit men. A truly memorable climax. Get Tickets [button link="https://www.zeffy.com/fundraising/donate-to-kinonik" type="big"...

The Thing From Another World ON 1/29 and 2/1 AT |KINONIK|

Howard Hawks' 1951 film about scientists and American Air Force officials fending off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost. Get Tickets [button link="https://www.zeffy.com/fundraising/donate-to-kinonik" type="big" color="black"...

Pandora’s Box on 1/26 AT |PCM|

G.W. Pabst's Pandora's Box (1929) remains one of European silent cinema's crowning achievements, nearly 100 years after its initial release. A tragic portrait of sexual obsession, the American actress Louise Brooks provides a genuinely iconic performance as the...

Long Day’s Journey Into Night ON 1/22 AT |Kinonik|

Our second Sidney Lumet film, after last week's 12 Angry Men, is this 1962 adaption of Eugene O'Neill's place about a family where everyone has something painful and offensive to say, and their silence is even worse. Get Tickets [button...

12 Angry Men ON 1/15 and 1/18 AT |KINONIK|

The first of two Sidnet Lumet films shown back-to-back: 1957's 12 Angry Men: a jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict. Get...

Rear Window ON 1/8 and 1/11 AT |Kinonik|

From 1954, Alfred Hitchcock's classic about a bored Jimmy Stewart recovering from a broken leg passes the time by watching his neighbors and begins to suspect one of them of murder. Get Tickets [button link="https://www.zeffy.com/fundraising/donate-to-kinonik"...

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ON 1/1 AT |Kinonik|

Portland, Maine native (he was born in Cape Elizabeth) John Ford's 1962 film about senator returning to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and the story of his origins. Get Tickets [button link="https://www.zeffy.com/fundraising/donate-to-kinonik"...

VAMPYR on 12/26 at |KINONIK|

a 1932 gothic horror film directed by Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer Get Tickets Kinonik is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit, and...

THE WIZARD OF OZ on 12/21 at |SPACE|

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THE WAGES OF FEAR on 12/18 at |KINONIK|

1953, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot Get Tickets Kinonik is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit, and donations are tax-deductible. ...

MILDRED PIERCE on 12/11 at |KINONIK|

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