AUGUST TO JUNE screens Monday, May 21 @ 6PM at Cape Ann Community Cinema in Gloucester, MA Special Guests: Directors Amy & Tom Valens PLUS a school lunch-style dinner served! After 30 years of watching the public open classroom where his wife taught, and admiring at a distance the model for learning that evolved, Tom [...]
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A public school breaks all the rules in “August to June” — screening at the Cape Ann Community Cinema, May 21
Posted in From the Lowell Film Collaborative, Movie Rants-N-Raves, Screenings and Events Outside Lowell, tagged Amy Valens, August to June, August to June documentary, Cape Ann Community Cinema, Lowell Film Collaborative, Tom Valens on May 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Off we go to into nostalgic movie-land at The Strand Theatre in Rockland, Maine!
Posted in From the Lowell Film Collaborative, Movie Rants-N-Raves, tagged Lowell Film Collaborative, Monsoon Wedding Lowell, Strand Theatre Rockland Maiine, The Kid with a Bike on April 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Our much anticipated trip to Rockland’s Strand Theatre is finally here! Our ongoing research of area movie-houses continues as we seek a permanent home in Lowell to do what we love to do (show movies, of course!) If you haven’t been to The Strand, we hear it’s enchanting — we’ll be catching tonight’s screening of [...]
Lowell journalist Nancye Tuttle talks “Lowell Movie Houses” TODAY at 11a.m. on 980AM WCAP!
Posted in From the Lowell Film Collaborative, Lowell Film News, Movie Rants-N-Raves, tagged Americanizing the Movies book, B&M Railroad Lowell, Cappy's Copper Kettle Lowell, Cinema Treasures, Lowell Gallery, Nancye Tuttle, Owl Theater Lowell, Rialto Theater Lowell, Richard Abel, Theatre Voyons Lowell, WCAP Lowell on April 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Fellow film fans, get yourselves to a radio or get access to a computer (for radio streaming) at 11AM today and hear Lowell journalist Nancye Tuttle on Merrimack Valley Radio 980AM WCAP talk Lowell movie houses with Guy Lefebvre, owner of Lowell Gallery. For anyone itchin’ to know more about Lowell’s amazing cinematic history, which includes the [...]
Indie filmmaker Gary King reignites the movie musical in “How Do You Write A Joe Schermann Song”
Posted in From the Lowell Film Collaborative, Movie Rants-N-Raves, tagged Broadway musicals, Director Gary King, How do you write a joe schermann song, HSPVA Houston, Joe Schermann Song, Lowell Film Collaborative, Performing Arts school Houston, stage musicals on February 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
When it comes to musicals — be they screen or stage — the Lowell Film Collaborative stands divided. But the LFC half that DOES adore the genre, adores it with great passion. For me, Suzz Cromwell, discovering filmmaker Gary King and his current project, How Do You Write A Joe Schermann Song, has been glorious. [...]
Would YOU be able to watch every film released in 2012? UK film critic Neil White is doing just that!
Posted in From the Lowell Film Collaborative, Movie Rants-N-Raves, Screenings and Events Outside Lowell, tagged every film in 2011, every film in 2012, Lowell Film Collaborative, Neil White Derby Telegraph, Neil White every film in 2012, Neil White every film twitter, The Fighter movie on January 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We’re huge fans of the wonderful Neil White, though we’ve never met and never spoken. Well, by phone at least. The wonder of Twitter brought us together as it has so many millions of film buffs the world over. Neil is a special guy — in 2011, his goal was to watch EVERY FILM released [...]
The final chapter in the West Memphis 3 — “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory” screens Thursday, January 12 on HBO
Posted in From the Lowell Film Collaborative, Movie Rants-N-Raves, Screenings and Events Outside Lowell, tagged Bruce Sinofsky, HBO Films, Joe Berlinger, Lowell Film Collaborative, Paradise Lost 3, Paradise Lost film, West Memphis 3 on January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The final chapter of the award-winning trilogy of documentaries on accused killers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley will air this Thursday at 9PM on HBO. Known as the West Memphis 3, Echols, Baldwin, and Misskelley were freed last summer after spending 18 years in prison. Their story was passionately told in two films, [...]
Occupy Cinema: A guerilla film movement gone to the streets
Posted in From the Lowell Film Collaborative, Movie Rants-N-Raves, Screenings and Events Outside Lowell, tagged An Injury to One, Anthology Film Archives, Huffington Post, Indiewire, Occupy Cinema, Occupy Wall Street, Peter Whitehead The Fall, Wall Street Charging Bull on December 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Occupy Cinema: An open collective harnessing the moving image to aid the worldwide occupation movement.” Inspired by the Occupy movement, Occupy Cinema is getting in on the game by taking the beauty and power of moving pictures to the streets by projecting on any surface they can find, from buildings, to abandoned property, to statues. [...]
“The Bicycle City:” The true story of how bicycles are bringing hope to a poverty-stricken city
Posted in From the Lowell Film Collaborative, Movie Rants-N-Raves, tagged Bicycle donation film, Dave Schweidenback, Greg Sucharew, IndieGoGo, Pedals for Progress, Rivas Nicaragua, The Bicycle City on December 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
For a war-torn, impoverished city in Nicaragua, the words “pedal power” have taken on a dramatic new meaning. In director Greg Sucharew‘s independent documentary The Bicycle City, we meet a handful of individuals from the city of Rivas — a small coastal town in the second poorest country in Latin America — where an influx [...]
Indie filmmaker Alexia Anastasio seeks fabulous redheaded femmes for her new project!
Posted in From the Lowell Film Collaborative, Movie Rants-N-Raves, Screenings and Events Outside Lowell, tagged Adventures in Plymptoons, Alexia Anastasio, Bill Plympton, Cape Ann Community Cinema, Ginger Girls documentary, Ginger Girls Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, Kickstarter, Vampira the Movie on December 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There’s absolutely NO shortage of great indie film projects out there, especially among the hundreds of IndieGoGo and Kickstarter ideas in queue. One of these impressive film artists seeking our collective financial support is Alexia Anastasio, whose current documentary Adventures in Plymptoons! showcases the brilliant work of Academy Award nominee, animator, and filmmaker Bill Plympton. [...]











