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...
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...
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 Donate! Kinonik is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit, and donations are tax-deductible. About...
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...
