At the Northwest Film Center, visitors will find a cornerstone of the city's art scene and a year-round instrument in promoting local film. He is working on a book or two.Portland has always worked to maintain its role in sustaining and developing the culture of the region.
He’s interested in avant-garde cinema, early talkies, the history of non-theatrical distribution and exhibition, and everything else. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation.Īt the Chicago Film Society, Kyle serves as co-programmer and writes our blog. His program notes are featured on Kino’s “Avant-Garde 3” DVD box set, which recently won a Film Heritage Award from the National Society of Film Critics. He has also interned or worked at the Bank of America Cinema, the University of Chicago Film Studies Center, the Little Theatre, Monaco Digital Film Lab, UCLA Film & Television Archive, the Pacific Film Archive, and the George Eastman House. (A screening of Apocalypse Now Redux in a latter-day Technicolor dye transfer 35mm print at the Crest taught him about the emotional importance of print quality in ways that a teenager had no hope of articulating.) For four years Kyle served variously as treasurer, projectionist, historian, and ultimately programming chair for Doc Films at the University of Chicago. KYLE spent his adolescence in Sacramento, California and learned about movies at the Crest and Tower Theatres. She is a member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists and Chicago Area Archivists. She has also been a projectionist, produce store clerk, operations manager, scanner of small-gauge film and glass magic lantern slides, nonprofit administrator, graphic designer, data manager, and set dresser. In 2011, she co-founded the Chicago Film Society.
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A few years later, in college, she served on the board at Doc Films, where she co-programmed an all-16mm series of films produced by Mark IV pictures and a retrospective of Andy Warhol’s films. Before that, she had never really thought about where movies are when they aren’t being watched or even what they, physically, are. REBECCA first became aware of the special materiality of the movies in the summer of 2003, at a silent film screening in Bucksport, Maine, which was introduced with a retelling of the “ Dawson Film Find,” a famous (to film archivists) 1978 incident in which hundreds of reels of nitrate film were unearthed under a paved-over athletic facility in the Yukon. They’re a hardcore group of cinephiles that put me to shame when I talk about film.” - Sean Baker, Sight and Sound “The Chicago Film Society take film seriously. “The bright young people who operate the Chicago Film Society, which is in the valuable business of saving and restoring old movies, have a passionate appreciation of the past…” - Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune “The Chicago Film Society is a small but mighty organization of cinephiles that exists to maintain, restore and preserve cinematic treasures on film” - Lisa Trifone, Third Coast Review “…wonderfully eclectic taste and a real talent for unearthing obscurities.” - Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune “The Chicago Film Society is one of the greatest and most historic film organizations on the planet.” – Screen Slate “ programmers are peerless repertory cinema magicians…” - Steven Pate, Chicagoist
“…the best kind of repertory programming” - Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader “…one of the most valuable arts institutions in the city.” - Joshua Minsoo Kim, Chicago Reader
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