On 5/14, Kinonik is presenting With, Holding. These are experimental / art films selected by Jenelle Stafford and Hannah Bonner. Portland-based filmmaker Caroline Savage will be in attendance. You will want to see these short 16mm films. https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/with-holding

WITH, HOLDING

Experimental and Art Films selected by Jenelle Stafford and Hannah Bonner:Richard Serra's Hand Catching Lead (3 min) (Kinonik)Chuck Close's Slow Pan for Bob (10 min) (Kinonik)Caroline Savage's Voyeur (7 min)Hollis Frampton's Nostalgia (38 min)JJ Murphy's Sky Blue Water Light Sign (7.75 min)Stephanie Barber’s 3 Peonies (3 min)

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Kinonik is not showing Jacques Tati's Mon Oncle one time on 5/9. (That's tomorrow.) (Saturday!) We're showing it two times, at 2 PM and at 7 PM. You should see it -- twice! www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

Mon Oncle

The Arpels have built the perfect modern home. Everything is automated and nothing works. Monsieur Hulot wanders through it like a man from another century. We feel you my dude.

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There was a spat recently between Ray and Dave Davies and Moby about The Kinks' song Lola. Jacques Demy's Lola has nothing to do with the spat or song. Demy's debut is about love and waiting and has been called a "musical without music." Kinonik is showing Lola tonight, 5/2, in Portland, Maine.

There was a spat recently between Ray and Dave Davies and Moby about The Kinks' song Lola. Jacques Demy's Lola has nothing to do with the spat or song. Demy's debut has been called a "musical without music." Kinonik is showing Lola tonight, 5/2, in Portland, Maine. www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

Lola

Everyone in Nantes is in love with the wrong person. Anouk Aimee waits for a man who left while another waits for her. Demy's debut drips with profound love for his home.

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📽️ It's almost April, and you know what that means: Kinonik's April, May and June 2026 schedule is here! We've got something coming up for most everyone in the next 3 months. Oh, and happy spring!

📽️ It's almost April, and you know what that means: Kinonik's April, May and June 2026 schedule is here! We've got something coming up for most everyone in the next 3 months. Oh, and happy spring!

📽️ 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...

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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📽️ 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. ...

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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! 🎟️ 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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📽️ 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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📽️ 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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📽️ 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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📽️ 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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📽️ 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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📽️ 💣 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.

🎞 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...

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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🗞️ 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.

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🗞️ 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.

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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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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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🎥 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...