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

(1963) directed by Federico Fellini: “The character of Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) is the perfect incarnation of the artist devoured by his demons, alone and helpless in front of his artwork.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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The Philadelphia Story ON 4/30 AT |KINONIK|

“One of the essential American comedies.” – David Thomson

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

Jean-Luc Godard has the ability to convey an extraordinary amount of emotion and detail through his visual style, displaying the interiority of Nana through careful observation of her exteriority. Essential viewing for anyone who appreciates film as an artform.

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Knife In The Water ON 5/14 AND 5/17 AT |Kinonik|

When a young hitchhiker joins a couple on a weekend yacht trip, psychological warfare breaks out as the two men compete for the woman’s attention. A storm forces the small crew below deck, and tension builds to a violent climax. A disturbing study of fear, humiliation, sexuality, and aggression.

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

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, is beyond any question the most shattering sick joke I’ve ever come across. And I say that with full recollection of some of the grim ones I’ve heard from Mort Sahl, some of the cartoons I’ve seen by Charles Addams and some of the stuff I’ve read in Mad Magazine. -Bosley Crowther

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Heavens Above on 5/28 AT |Kinonik|

In a case of mistaken identity, John Smallwood (Peter Sellers), an idealistic British reverend with socialist beliefs, is appointed to a village parish populated by elitist landed gentry.

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Past Screenings

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|

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MILDRED PIERCE on 12/11 at |KINONIK|

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