Kinonik
@kinonikmaine.bsky.social
Kinonik maintains an archive of nearly 1,000 16mm films and screens films in Portland, Maine at SPACE, Congress Square Park and (weekly!) at our 121 Cassidy Point Dr. studio.
📽️ On Wednesday, Nov. 19, Kinonik is showing George Englund's Signpost to Murder (1964).
A second showing is on Saturday, Nov. 22.
Get your tickets: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
A second showing is on Saturday, Nov. 22.
Get your tickets: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
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...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
📽️ On Wednesday, Nov. 19, Kinonik is showing George Englund's Signpost to Murder (1964).
A second showing is on Saturday, Nov. 22.
Get your tickets: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
A second showing is on Saturday, Nov. 22.
Get your tickets: www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
📽️ 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.
September 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
📽️ 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...
September 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
📽️ These films start at 7 PM on 9/12 at 121 Cassidy Point. 🎟️🎟️ www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
📽️ 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...
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. ...
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September 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
📽️ 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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August 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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📽️ 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...
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…
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August 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
📽️ 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 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...
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...
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June 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
📽️ 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...
📽️ 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...
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 ...
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June 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
📽️ 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...
📽️ 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/
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.
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May 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
📽️ 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/
📽️ 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...
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...
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May 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
📽️ 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...
📽️ 💣 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.
May 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
📽️ 💣 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.
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.
May 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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.
🎞 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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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.
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May 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🎞 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.
www.pressherald.com/2025/05/16/w...
www.pressherald.com/2025/05/16/w...
🗞️ 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.
www.pressherald.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
🗞️ 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/
🗞️ 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...
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.
www.pressherald.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
🗞️ 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...
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...
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...
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January 19, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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...
Kansas-born Louise Brooks was 22 when she made Pandora's Box with G.W. Pabst in 1929. Come rain or snow @kinonikmaine.bsky.social is showing the film, 16mm format, on 1/19 at 7 PM at the Portland Conservatory of Music in Portland, Maine's West End. Join us! www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
Pandora's Box directed by G. W. Pabst
Based on two Frank Wedekind plays, GW Pabst's Pandora's Box remains one of European silent cinema's crowning achievements, nearly 100 years after its initial release. A tragic portrait of sexual obses...
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January 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Kansas-born Louise Brooks was 22 when she made Pandora's Box with G.W. Pabst in 1929. Come rain or snow @kinonikmaine.bsky.social is showing the film, 16mm format, on 1/19 at 7 PM at the Portland Conservatory of Music in Portland, Maine's West End. Join us! www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
🎥 Feeling a little like a beast after Christmas Day and grazing snacks all day long? 12/26 at 7 PM we're showing Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête (1946) at our 121 Cassidy Point Dr. studio. The 16mm film is a beauty. Buy tickets online or cash at the door. #portlandme www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
December 26, 2023 at 12:37 PM
🎥 Feeling a little like a beast after Christmas Day and grazing snacks all day long? 12/26 at 7 PM we're showing Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête (1946) at our 121 Cassidy Point Dr. studio. The 16mm film is a beauty. Buy tickets online or cash at the door. #portlandme www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...