Often his wife, Leslie, on maternity leave from her job as a film programmer for HBO, and their two offspring, one a newborn, came along.

Thompson moved to London in 1978, and worked for the BBC as a film programmer and documentary maker.

In the early 1960s, Bogdanovich was known as a film programmer at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

I was a film programmer in the mid-70's at the Danish Film Institute, when he was an intern with a job in the archive.

"We are just covering more ground," said Mr. Mekas, a soft-spoken Lithuanian emigre who was, until recently, the archive's sole curator and film programmer.

"He has a special talent," said Dylan Skolnick, Cinema Arts' film programmer.

Shaz Bennett is an American writer, filmmaker, performance artist and film programmer.

He lives in the basement of the cinema and is the film programmer, projectionist and cashier.

In addition he is a film programmer and an academic.

Issue 27: 'Pure', Emily Munro, writer and film programmer.