Movie theater programmers aren’t just tastemakers, they’re leading the fight to preserve our cinematic heritage. Daily Grindhouse honors these unsung heroes of cinema with the series KNOW YOUR PROGRAMMER, where we talk to staff members at some of North America’s most celebrated theaters and film festivals about their time in the exhibition trenches. This week we kick things off (no pun intended) by interviewing Dan Halsted, head programmer at Portland’s Hollywood Theatre and founder of the 35mm Shaolin Archive: KATIE: I think that the Hollywood is one of the coolest theaters out there, because you guys have all of these great series– there’s the Grindhouse Film Festival, and Kung Fu Theater, and you’ve got the Polyester Pulp series going on… DAN: Yeah, I’m really stoked about that. K: Did you put that together? D: Yeah, it’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, and I was finally able to get all the prints necessary to put it together. The first movie [was] CHARLEY VARRICK, which is one of my favorite … Continue reading [KNOW YOUR PROGRAMMER] KATIE RIFE TALKS TO DAN HALSTED OF PORTLAND’S HOLLYWOOD THEATRE