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SIgnpost to Murder Alex Forrester, convicted of murdering his wife, fails to gain his release after spending 5 years in a British asylum for the criminally insane. Dr. Mark Fleming informs him of an old law which provid...

📽️ On Wednesday, Nov. 19, Kinonik is showing George Englund's Signpost to Murder (1964).

A second showing is on Saturday, Nov. 22.

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📽️ We borrowed 4 prints from Canyon Cinema in San Francisco for this program. Our last rental from them was Nathaniel Dorsky’s “Arboretum Cycle” and the prints were marvelous! We're very excited to see these works on 16mm. You should be excited, too! 🎟️ https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/handmade-films-co-presented-with-the-bakery-photo-collective

📽️ We borrowed 4 prints from Canyon Cinema in San Francisco for this program. Our last rental from them was Nathaniel Dorsky’s “Arboretum Cycle” and the prints were marvelous! We're very excited to see these works on 16mm. You should be excited, too! 🎟️ https://www.zeffy.

📽️ These films start at 7 PM on 9/12 at 121 Cassidy Point. 🎟️🎟️ www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

Handmade Films co-presented with The Bakery Photo Collective The Bakery Photo Collective and Kinonik have teamed up to present 90 minutes of handmade films, programmed by Jenelle Stafford from the 16mm collections of Kinonik and Canyon Cinema in San Francisco. ...

📽️ We borrowed 4 prints from Canyon Cinema in San Francisco for this program. Our last rental from them was Nathaniel Dorsky’s “Arboretum Cycle” and the prints were marvelous! We're very excited to see these works on 16mm. You should be excited, too! 🎟️ www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

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Record of a Tenement Gentleman – SPACE dir. Yasujirō Ozu72 min. | In Japanese with English subtitles1947 | presented on 16mm film Yasujirō Ozu’s first post–World War II film takes place in…

📽️ 8/25 at 7 PM at @spacegallery.bsky.social, we're showing Yasujirō Ozu’s first post–WWII film set in Toyko partly destroyed by US bombing raids. A hard-hearted middle-aged widow reluctantly takes in a child abandoned by his father. Eventually the two warm to each other. space538.org/event/record...

The Man in the White Suit The Man in the White Suit is a 1951 British satirical science fiction comedy film made by Ealing Studios. It stars Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood and Cecil Parker and was directed by Alexander Mackendrick. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing (Screenplay) for Roger MacDougall, John Dighton and Alexander Mackendrick.It followed a common 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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The Man in the White Suit The Man in the White Suit is a 1951 British satirical science fiction comedy film made by Ealing Studios. It stars Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood and Cecil Parker and was directed by Alexander Mackendr...

📽️ The Man in the White Suit is a satire exploring trade unionism, capitalism and scientific "progress", with expressionistic cinematography emphasizing the claustrophobia of hemmed in scientist Alec Guinness. We're showing the film on 6/25 at 7 PM. Get your tickets now! www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

Norma Rae Norma Rae is a 1979 American drama film directed by Martin Ritt from a screenplay written by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. The film is based on the true story of Crystal Lee Sutton – which was ...

📽️ At 7 PM on Wednesday, June 18 -- today! -- we're showing Norma Rae, a timely reminder the good fight has been, and can still be, fought and won by everyday people doing what they can. Tickets here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

Portland group of volunteers are saving and showcasing eclectic 16mm film archive We hear about the Nyback Archive, which aims to preserve and showcase thousands of reels of mostly 16mm film collected by Portland film programmer and archivist Dennis Nyback.

📽️ Meanwhile, in the other Portland (the one in Oregon). 👀 https://www.opb.org/article/2025/05/05/think-out-loud-dennis-nyback-fim-archivist-reels-film-cartoons-commercials-educational-films/

Heavens Above (1963) directed by John & Roy Boulting 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. There his co...

📽️ On May 28 at 7 PM we're showing Heavens Above! Reverend John Smallwood (Peter Sellers) is appointed to a village parish, where his acts of charity reveal shockingly un-Christian beliefs among privileged parishioners. www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

Dr.Strangelove (1964) directed by Stanley Kubrick January 30, 1964 - New York TimesScreen: 'Dr. Strangelove,' a Shattering Sick JokeBy BOSLEY CROWTHERStanley Kubrick's new film, called "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.For this brazenly jesting speculation of what might happen within the Pentagon and within the most responsible council of the President of the United States if some maniac Air Force general should suddenly order a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union is at the same time one of the cleverest and most incisive satiric thrusts at the awkwardness and folly of the military that have ever been on the screen.My reaction to it is quite divided, because there is so much about it that is grand, so much that is brilliant and amusing, and much that is grave and dangerous.On the one hand, it cuts right to the soft pulp of the kind of military mind that is lost from all sense of reality in a maze of technical talk, and it shows up this type of mentality for the foolish and frightening thing it is.In a top-level Air Force general, played by George C. Scott with a snarling and rasping volubility that makes your blood run cold, Mr. Kubrick presents us with a joker whose thinking is so involved with programs and cautions and suspicions that he is practically tied in knots.It is he who is most completely baffled, bewildered and paralyzed when word comes through to Washington that a general in the Strategic Air Command has sent a wing of bombers off to drop bombs and that the planes cannot be recalled. It is he who has to answer to the President for this awesome "accident" when the President gathers his council in the War Room at the Pentagon. And it is he who looks the most unstable and dubious in the causes of peace when it begins to appear that the Russians have a retaliatory "doomsday device."Some of the conversations in that War Room are hilarious, shooting bright shafts of satire through mounds of ineptitude. There is, best of all, a conversation between the President and an unseen Soviet Premier at the other end of a telephone line that is a titanic garble of nuttiness and platitudes.Funny, too, in a mad way, is the behavior of the crew in one of the planes of the airborne alert force ordered to drop the bomb. The commander is a Texan who puts on a cowboy hat when he knows the mission is committed. Slim Pickens plays this role. He and Keenan Wynn as a foggy colonel are the funniest individuals in the film.As I say, there are parts of this satire that are almost beyond compare.On the other hand, I am troubled by the feeling, which runs through the film, of discredit and even contempt for our whole defense establishment, up to and even including the hypothetical Commander-in-Chief.It is all right to show this wild foray as a Communist-hating madman, convinced that a "Red conspiracy" is flouridating our water in order to pollute our precious body fluids. That is pointed satire, and Sterling Hayden plays the role with just a right blend of wackiness and meanness to give the character significance.But when virtually everybody turns up stupid or insane-- or, what is worse, psychopathic-- I want to know what this picture proves. The President, played by Peter Sellers with a shiny bald head, is a dolt, whining and unavailing with the nation in a life-or-death spot. But worse yet, his technical expert, Dr. Strangelove, whom Mr. Sellers also plays, is a devious and noxious ex-German whose mechanical arm insists on making the Nazi salute.And, oddly enough, the only character who seems to have much common sense is a British flying officer, whom Mr. Sellers-- yes, he again-- plays.The ultimate touch of ghoulish humor is when we see the bomb actually going off, dropped on some point in Russia, and a jazzy sound track comes in with a cheerful melodic rendition of "We'll Meet Again Some Sunny Day." Somehow, to me, it isn't funny. It is malefic and sick.

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📽️ 💣 Our showing today of DR. STRANGELOVE is sold out. We are showing it again Saturday at 7 PM at our studio at 121 Cassidy Point Drive in Portland, and you're invited. Join us and see a great film about simpler times. https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/drstrangelove-1963-directed-by-stanley-kubrick

📽️ 💣 Our showing today of DR. STRANGELOVE is sold out. We are showing it again Saturday at 7 PM at our studio at 121 Cassidy Point Drive in Portland, and you're invited. Join us and see a great film about simpler times.

Dr.Strangelove (1964) directed by Stanley Kubrick January 30, 1964 - New York TimesScreen: 'Dr. Strangelove,' a Shattering Sick JokeBy BOSLEY CROWTHERStanley Kubrick's new film, called "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.For this brazenly jesting speculation of what might happen within the Pentagon and within the most responsible council of the President of the United States if some maniac Air Force general should suddenly order a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union is at the same time one of the cleverest and most incisive satiric thrusts at the awkwardness and folly of the military that have ever been on the screen.My reaction to it is quite divided, because there is so much about it that is grand, so much that is brilliant and amusing, and much that is grave and dangerous.On the one hand, it cuts right to the soft pulp of the kind of military mind that is lost from all sense of reality in a maze of technical talk, and it shows up this type of mentality for the foolish and frightening thing it is.In a top-level Air Force general, played by George C. Scott with a snarling and rasping volubility that makes your blood run cold, Mr. Kubrick presents us with a joker whose thinking is so involved with programs and cautions and suspicions that he is practically tied in knots.It is he who is most completely baffled, bewildered and paralyzed when word comes through to Washington that a general in the Strategic Air Command has sent a wing of bombers off to drop bombs and that the planes cannot be recalled. It is he who has to answer to the President for this awesome "accident" when the President gathers his council in the War Room at the Pentagon. And it is he who looks the most unstable and dubious in the causes of peace when it begins to appear that the Russians have a retaliatory "doomsday device."Some of the conversations in that War Room are hilarious, shooting bright shafts of satire through mounds of ineptitude. There is, best of all, a conversation between the President and an unseen Soviet Premier at the other end of a telephone line that is a titanic garble of nuttiness and platitudes.Funny, too, in a mad way, is the behavior of the crew in one of the planes of the airborne alert force ordered to drop the bomb. The commander is a Texan who puts on a cowboy hat when he knows the mission is committed. Slim Pickens plays this role. He and Keenan Wynn as a foggy colonel are the funniest individuals in the film.As I say, there are parts of this satire that are almost beyond compare.On the other hand, I am troubled by the feeling, which runs through the film, of discredit and even contempt for our whole defense establishment, up to and even including the hypothetical Commander-in-Chief.It is all right to show this wild foray as a Communist-hating madman, convinced that a "Red conspiracy" is flouridating our water in order to pollute our precious body fluids. That is pointed satire, and Sterling Hayden plays the role with just a right blend of wackiness and meanness to give the character significance.But when virtually everybody turns up stupid or insane-- or, what is worse, psychopathic-- I want to know what this picture proves. The President, played by Peter Sellers with a shiny bald head, is a dolt, whining and unavailing with the nation in a life-or-death spot. But worse yet, his technical expert, Dr. Strangelove, whom Mr. Sellers also plays, is a devious and noxious ex-German whose mechanical arm insists on making the Nazi salute.And, oddly enough, the only character who seems to have much common sense is a British flying officer, whom Mr. Sellers-- yes, he again-- plays.The ultimate touch of ghoulish humor is when we see the bomb actually going off, dropped on some point in Russia, and a jazzy sound track comes in with a cheerful melodic rendition of "We'll Meet Again Some Sunny Day." Somehow, to me, it isn't funny. It is malefic and sick.

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It's not as exiting as the new phone book, it's MORE exciting: Kinonik's Summer/Fall 2025 #film schedule is here. Enjoy now and into October.

It's not as exiting as the new phone book, it's MORE exciting: Kinonik's Summer/Fall 2025 #film schedule is here. Enjoy now and into October.

Wabanaki film fest in Portland aims to tell the stories of Indigenous peoples The free program will be Sunday at the Portland Museum of Art and includes 5 films — including 3 involving Maine filmmakers.

🎞 The Portland Museum of Art is hosting the Wabanaki Film Festival, featuring five films, on Sunday, May 18, and it is free. You should go.

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The Organizer An exploration of the purpose and meaning of objects in cinema.

Imogen Sara Smith's article over at Reverse Shot on The Organizer. https://www.reverseshot.org/archive/entry/2875/organizer

The Organizer (1963) directed by Mario Monicelli 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. Monicelli breathes life into the stock figures of the “strike” film, never more so than in Mastroianni’s tour-de-force performance: comically timorous and bumbling, but still fiercely dedicated. Oscar nominee for its Incrocci/Scarpelli/Monicelli screenplay. “ONE OF MARCELLO MASTROIANNI'S CLASSIC TRAGICOMIC PERFORMANCES. Without any taint of sentimentality, he creates moments of Chaplinesque farce and poignancy as a former academic who rides into turn-of-the-century Turin on a freight train, wearing pince-nez and rags, and proceeds to galvanize the workers at a textile mill. He’s part absent-minded professor and part ramrod, a humane intellectual but also a political animal ready to steel his forces for a prolonged strike and to exploit their martyrdom.”– Michael Sragow, The New Yorker“This simple social drama turns out to be engrossingly human, compassionate and humorous. Mastroianni plays the title role with a delightful blend of ardor, ingenuousness and whimsicality.”– Bosley Crowther, The New York Times

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The Organizer An exploration of the purpose and meaning of objects in cinema.

Imogen Sara Smith's article over at @reverseshot.bsky.social on The Organizer. www.reverseshot.org/archive/entr...

The Organizer (1963) directed by Mario Monicelli 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 o...

📽️ We've got another Marcello Mastroianni film showing on Wednesday, April 9: The Organizer. Imogen Sara Smith wrote we should watch the film for its props. If you've got to watch Mastroianni in one of the best roles of his career, that's alright, too. Tickets here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

8½ (1963) directed by Federico Fellini “8½ is a synthesis of modern cinema in terms of narrative invention and reflexivity. The filmmaker’s crisis allows for a glimpse of the doubts, weaknesses and ghosts involved in the creative process, calling into question the idea of an omniscient author secure in their métier. Fellini also develops a penetrating study of the artist’s psychology, projecting it on to his alter ego, played by Marcello Mastroianni. The film condenses several elements typical of the Fellinian universe, such as mass communication, the circus, the game of affections and the artificial world provided by art.” Carlos Alberto Mattos“The best film about filmmaking ever made.” Bina Paul Venugopal“The character of Guido Anselmi (Mastroianni) is the perfect incarnation of the artist devoured by his demons, alone and helpless in front of his artwork.” Mustapha Benfodil

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8½ (1963) directed by Federico Fellini “8½ is a synthesis of modern cinema in terms of narrative invention and reflexivity. The filmmaker’s crisis allows for a glimpse of the doubts, weaknesses and ghosts involved in the creative process, ...

📽️ On Wednesday, April 2 at 7 PM we're showing 8 1/2 at our place at 121 Cassidy Point Drive in Portland, Maine. You should come, even if you've seen Federico Fellini's film, especially if you have not. Get unstuck. Watch 8 1/2 with us. Tickets here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

Forbidden Games (1952) directed by René Clément From Roger Ebert:A child’s-eye view of horror ★★★★We must turn to the past for a film as innocent as “Forbidden Games” (1952), because our own time is too cynical to support it. Here is a film about children using their powers of fantasy and denial to deal with death in wartime. A modern film would back away from the horror and soften and sentimentalize it. It would become a “children’s film.” But in all times children have survived experiences that no child should have to endure. Sometimes they’re able to shield their innocence by creating games to process the pain. “Forbidden Games” was attacked and praised by adults for the same reason: because it showed children inventing happiness where none should exist. The Japanese animated film “Grave of the Fireflies” (1988) is another rare film with the courage to walk this path.

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Forbidden Games (1952) directed by René Clément From Roger Ebert:A child’s-eye view of horror ★★★★We must turn to the past for a film as innocent as “Forbidden Games” (1952), because our own time is too cynical to support it. Here is a film about c...

📽️ Forbidden Games we've got showing Wednesday, March 26 at 7 PM. It's the grim story of children making happiness in in the horror wartime. Robert Ebert mentions Studio Ghibli's Grave of the Fireflies as comparable. Tickets here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

Portland film group is devoted to preserving, sharing movie history The nonprofit organization Kinonik has collected some 1,800 movie film prints, showing many of them at its Cassidy Point screening room.

🗞️ We're famous, thanks to Ray Routhier and the Portland Press Herald - come see great films on film in Portland, Maine! https://www.pressherald.com/2025/03/21/portland-film-group-is-devoted-to-preserving-sharing-movie-history/

Portland film group is devoted to preserving, sharing movie history The nonprofit organization Kinonik has collected some 1,800 movie film prints, showing many of them at its Cassidy Point screening room.

🗞️ We're famous, thanks to Ray Routhier and the @pressherald.bsky.social - come see great films on film in Portland, Maine! www.pressherald.com/2025/03/21/p...

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Forbidden Games (1952) directed by René Clément From Roger Ebert:A child’s-eye view of horror ★★★★We must turn to the past for a film as innocent as “Forbidden Games” (1952), because our own time is too cynical to support it. Here is a film about c...

Robert Ebert writes Forbidden Games (1952) is "so powerful because it does not compromise on two things: the horror of war and the innocence of childhood." @kinonikmaine.bsky.social is showing the film, 16mm format, on 3/26 at 7 PM at our studio in Portland, Maine. www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...