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No Restrictions Entertainment: Telling life’s hardest stories on film

Posted in From the Lowell Film Collaborative, Movie Rants-N-Raves, tagged , , , , , , on December 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »

We all know that film often has a conscience. It takes great courage and skill for filmmakers to both entertain and open up the heart to a little darkness, especially if you’re an independent filmmaker working on a shoe string budget and with limited resources. Enter director Edgar Michael Bravo and producer John Paul Rice [...]

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Take in great film this Thanksgiving with The Cape Ann Film Festival and “The Artist”

Posted in Film Festivals, From the Lowell Film Collaborative, Movie Rants-N-Raves, Screenings and Events Outside Lowell, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Lowell Film Collaborative sends VERY Happy Thanksgiving wishes to each and every one of you! We are incredibly grateful to everyone who attended a Lowell film screening or who conveyed their support through kind words, generous donations, or by helping to publicize our Mill City movie mission. We hope you enjoy spending this day [...]

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Indie film “GWAPA (Beautiful)” brings awareness to children suffering facial deformity in the Philippines

Posted in From the Lowell Film Collaborative, Movie Rants-N-Raves, tagged , , , , , on November 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

This week we’d like to spotlight an IndieGoGo film project that came to our attention via fellow indie film supporter and Twitter friend, John Hoff III. We were instantly moved, and hope you’ll be as well, as this project will be coming to a close in just over 10 days and is in dire need [...]

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“Waking Sleeping Beauty” and a holiday in Bordeaux!

Posted in From the Lowell Film Collaborative, Lowell Film News, Lowell Screenings and Events, Movie Rants-N-Raves, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Lowell Film Collaborative is on holiday! Staying in a 17th century chateau in the Aquitaine (southwest France) hasn’t prevented us from being a bit creative about our movie-watching — all one really needs these days to enjoy a personal film screening is a laptop and power source. Fortunately, we have both, and of course [...]

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“Paul Goodman Changed My Life” at the 2011 Boston Jewish Film Festival on November 3

Posted in Film Festivals, From the Lowell Film Collaborative, Movie Rants-N-Raves, Screenings and Events Outside Lowell, tagged , , , , , , , on November 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

THE 2011 BOSTON JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL through November 13 BJFF.org This past July, we had the pleasure of getting a sneak preview of the remarkable documentary Paul Goodman Changed My Life at the Maine International Film Festival in Waterville, ME. We’re excited to hear that the film will be showing at 6PM this Thursday, November [...]

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Tiny, Terrifying and Poised to Kill: A Halloween Horror Film Homage

Posted in Movie Rants-N-Raves, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »

WE HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS POPULAR RE-POST FROM OCTOBER 2010 – FOLKS LOVED IT, SO WE’RE RE-SHARING IT! ____________________ It’s no secret that dolls are one of the most popular terrifying creatures of choice. As children, we make them our friends. We trust them, love them, collect and cuddle them. But what happens when this [...]

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“Of Dolls & Murder” in the news as director Susan Marks completes her successful Kickstarter campaign!

Posted in From the Lowell Film Collaborative, Lowell Film News, Lowell Screenings and Events, Movie Rants-N-Raves, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Friends, it’s all about Of Dolls & Murder these days as we count down to THIS TUESDAY’S Regional Premiere of the film right here in Lowell with Director Susan Marks in attendance! Not Boston. Not Cambridge. LOWELL! And following our Mill City screening, director Susan Marks will take Of Dolls & Murder to Gloucester on October [...]

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Johnny Depp on “Lost in La Mancha” – a pretty fabulous FOUR PART interview

Posted in From the Lowell Film Collaborative, Lowell Film News, Lowell Screenings and Events, Movie Rants-N-Raves, tagged , , , , , , on October 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

“You really had the feeling the film was gonna be great. REALLY great.” – Johnny Depp, talking about what Lost in La Mancha could have been The wonder of YouTube (thanks safetymousejdtv) comes through again as we share with you this FOUR PART interview with Johnny Depp on his role in Terry Gilliam’s Lost in [...]

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FIRST GLANCE: Australian director Richard Williamson, maker of “The Long Night”

Posted in From the Lowell Film Collaborative, Movie Rants-N-Raves, tagged , , , , , on September 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

We were first introduced to award-winning Australian filmmaker Richard Williamson in 2009 at Montreal’s world renowned Fantasia Festival, a celebration of international genre, horror, fantasy, and thriller feature films and shorts. His 2008 12-minute short, The Long Night, is the piece that got us hooked. Its impressed plenty of other film buffs, too, playing at 12 [...]

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Yes, R.E.M. impacted the movies, too (but we’re sure you already knew this)

Posted in From the Lowell Film Collaborative, Movie Rants-N-Raves, tagged , , , , , , on September 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Everybody was hurting this past week — beloved alt-rock breakthrough band R.E.M. has bid farewell to legions of fans the world over via a humble albeit abrupt goodbye message to fans: “To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. [...]

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