Thanks to our audiences and to our volunteers for a WONDERFUL Film Festival!
SEE YOU IN 2011!
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The 3rd Annual Lowell Film Festival
“Hollywood and the Great Depression: 10-cent Entertainment During Difficult Times”
Thursday, April 8 – Saturday, April 10
Downtown Lowell | FREE ADMISSION
www.lowellfilms.org | View trailers at a glance
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The City of Lowell celebrates Hollywood’s Golden Age of Cinema and the movie magic that helped get the nation through hard times! These incredible films are now today’s classics, showcasing the actors and actresses we’ve grown to love idolize.
–> See the remarkable Charlie Chaplin as he poetically moves his way through the industrialized world in “Modern Times“
–> Experience James Whale’s horrifying tale of regeneration and life ever-lasting in “Frankenstein“
–> Watch the beauty and brilliance of Lowell’s own Bette Davis in her Academy Award-winning role in “Jezebel“
These great cinematic classics are just some of the films featured at this year’s Film Festival, right in downtown Lowell!
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The Official 2010 Lowell Film Festival Lineup
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THURSDAY, APRIL 8 | OPENING NIGHT
Jezebel (1938, 1 hr 44 min)
7PM
Lowell National Historical Park, 246 Market Street
Join us for Opening Night of the Lowell Film Festival with this Academy Award-winning classic! Enchanting and feisty, Lowell’s own Bette Davis portrays Jezebel, an arrogant, head strong southern belle in antebellum Louisiana who loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, but vows to get him back. “The story of a woman who was LOVED, when she should have been WHIPPED!” See the trailer
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FRIDAY, APRIL 9
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, 2 hrs 9 min)
7PM
Lowell National Historical Park, 246 Market Street
Our Friday Night Headline Film features the incomparable Jimmy Stewart as the naïve and idealistic Jefferson Smith who is appointed to fill a vacancy in the US Senate. Unfortunately, Smith’s plans promptly collide with political corruption. See the trailer
Frankenstein (1931, 70 min)
10 PM
119 Gallery, 119 Chelmsford Street
Stay up late with the Lowell Film Festival for this fantastic screening at Lowell’s renowned 119 Gallery! Dr. Henry Frankenstein, an ardent young scientist, unleashes horror when he pieces together a human from secretly collected body parts, then gives the creature life. Boris Karloff (the Monster) and director James Whale brought chills to 1930s movie-goers with this marvelous, timeless thriller! See the trailer
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SATURDAY, APRIL 10
The Grapes of Wrath (1940, 2 hours 8 min)
12 Noon: Panel Discussion
1PM: Film Screening
Boott Cotton Mills Museum Events Center, Foot of John Street
Hear fascinating historical information on the effects of the Great Depression on the City of Lowell at a pre-film panel discussion. Immediately following will be a screening of the Academy Award-nominated film that garnered Oscars for John Ford (Best Director) and Jane Darwell (Best Actress). After serving four years in prison for killing a man, Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) heads back to his Oklahoma family farm only to find it has been foreclosed on. Together, the displaced family begins their journey west for a new life. See the trailer
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, 83 min)
1:30PM
Pollard Memorial Library, 401 Merrimack Street
The Lowell Film Festival brings family-friendly fare to the Pollard Library! Disney’s animated classic tells the tale of a beautiful young maiden who escapes from her wicked stepmother, only to find a peaceful life in the shelter of the woods in the home of seven welcoming faces! But Snow White’s life is turned upside down as her stepmother continues to seeks vengeance. See a clip
Modern Times (1936, 86 min)
3PM
Pollard Memorial Library, 401 Merrimack Street
Guest Speaker: Professor Todd Avery, University of Massachusetts/Lowell
“The Tramp” struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman. Don’t miss this marvelous, subtle exploration of TODAY’S worker and his role in our current industrialized nation. The film’s hauntingly modern themes and Chaplin’s ingenuity will be brilliantly discussed by UMass Lowel Professor Todd Avery. See the trailer
It Happened One Night (1934, 1 hr 45 min)
7PM
UMass Lowell O’Leary Library (Room 222), 61 Wilder Street
Saturday’s Headline Film, directed by the legendary Frank Capra, swept the 1935 Academy Awards by winning a total of 5 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Clark Gable), Best Actress (Claudette Colbert), and Best Director! Follow the zany, romantic adventures of a spoiled heiress (Colbert) who while fleeing from her family is helped by a charming man who’s actually a reporter looking for a story (Gable). Playful and flirty, Colbert and Gable were the perfect Hollywood match! See a clip
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935, 75 min)
10PM
119 Gallery, 119 Chelmsford Street
The Lowell Film Festival comes to an official close with this fabulous late-night film event! The Monster is in need of a bride and Dr. Henry Frankenstein is all to willing to accommodate! See director James Whale’s unforgettable sequal to his 1931 chiller, with Boris Karloff reprising his role as The Monster and the beautiful, mysterious Elsa Lanchester as his worthy mate …. it’s match-making on a whole other level. See the trailer
