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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Tax Driver ON 10/22 and 10/25 AT |kinonik|

Taxi Driver features what would be Bernard Herrmann’s final score. The music was finished mere hours before his death, and the film is dedicated to him.

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Creature from the Black Lagoon ON 10/29 and 11/1 AT |kinonik|

Creature from the Black Lagoon follows a group of scientists who encounter a piscine amphibious humanoid — the Creature, also known as the Gill-man — in the waters of the Amazon

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The Set-Up ON 11/12 and 11/15 AT |KINONIK|

Robert Wise’s tale of a boxer on his last legs, clocked in with the concept of a drama unfolding in real time three years before “High Noon.”

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Signpost to Murder ON 11/19 and 11/22 AT |KINONIK|

Alex Forrester, convicted of murdering his wife, fails to gain his release after spending 5 years in a British asylum for the criminally insane.

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The Misfits ON 12/3 and 12/6 AT |KINONIK|

A film so utterly despondent; it could only have been made by the truly lost at heart.

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Whisky Galore! ON 12/10 and 12/13 AT |KINONIK|

During World War II, the tiny Scottish island of Todday runs out of whisky. When the freighter S.S. Cabinet Minister runs aground nearby during a heavy fog, the islanders are delighted to learn that its cargo consists of 50,000 cases of whisky.

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The Third Man ON 12/17 and 12/20 AT |Kinonik|

Orson Welles’s long-delayed entrance in the film has become one of the hallmarks of modern cinematography, and it is just one of dozens of cockeyed camera angles that seem to mirror the off-kilter postwar society.

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Casablanca ON 12/24 and 12/27 AT |kinonik|

One of Hollywood’s finest moment, a film that succeeds on such a vast scale not because of anything experimental or deliberately earthshaking in its design, but for the way it cohered to and reaffirmed the movie-making conventions of its day.

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Father Brown ON 12/31 and 1/3 AT |KINONIK|

When amateur detective Father Brown (Alec Guinness) is put in charge of shipping an extremely valuable religious artifact — a crucifix — from London to Rome, a master thief and master of disguise named Flambeau (Peter Finch) outwits the young priest and steals the cross for himself.

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