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Join the GARDEN in our three-week celebration of iconic American actor James Dean Jan 16 - Feb 5 Week 3 Giant Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates. CAST: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean DIRECTOR: George Stevens RUN TIME: 201 min
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Hey You Guys! See a free winter carnival showing of the Goonies sponsored by Dawn's School of Dance. The Goonies is a 1985 American adventure comedy film directed by Richard Donner from a screenplay by Chris Columbus based on a story by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Sean Astin, Josh Brolin (in his film debut), Jeff Cohen (in his only feature film), Corey Feldman, Kerri Green (in her film debut), Martha Plimpton, and Ke Huy Quan with John Matuszak, Robert Davi, Joe Pantoliano, and Anne Ramsey in supporting roles. In the film, a group of children who live in Astoria, Oregon attempt to save their homes from foreclosure. In doing so, they discover an old treasure map which takes them on an adventure to unearth the long-lost fortune of One-Eyed Willy, a legendary 17th-century pirate, while being pursued by a family of criminals who are after the treasure as well. RUN TIME: 114 min
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Greenfield Community Television brings back its annual film festival for a sixth year, challenging filmmakers to see just how fast creativity can move. Lights! Camera! Greenfield!, the two-week film sprint and festival, kicks off on February 9. Teams can sign up now using the Google form at https://forms.gle/V87nTWnwvqEGHmmf7. Once registered, teams will receive their prompts and jump straight into filmmaking. Each team receives two unique prompts along with one universal prompt that must appear in their film. With those elements in hand, teams have just two weeks to create a short film running four minutes or less. The sprint culminates in a public premiere on March 5 at the Greenfield Garden Cinema, located at 361 Main Street.
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Two movies for the price of one for one of the most iconic male heart-throbs of the 6os & 70s Steve McQueen. 4PM Papillion 1973 A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape. CAST: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe, Robert Deman DIRECTOR: Franklin J. Schaffner RUN TIME: 151 min 6:45 Bullitt 1968 Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses. This thriller includes one of the most famous car chases ever filmed. CAST: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Simon Oakland DIRECTOR: Peter Yates RUN TIME: 113 min
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Join LAVA for film screenings every 2nd Thursday! We’ll share films made by local filmmakers, films with a social or environmental focus brought to you by local organizations, films we just think you should see! There will be time after each screening for a talkback session. Greening Greenfield film series: “Majority Rules” What if changing the way we vote could change everything? With America’s democratic experiment mired in division and dysfunction, the state of Alaska voted to revolutionize their election system. The surprising results sparked new alliances, a growing call for election reform, and fierce pushback from political parties. Could changing how Americans vote also change politics for the better? Refreshments will be served. Discussion will follow. Admission is free. See greeninggreenfieldma.org for more information.
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Celebrate President's Day with a movie about a President we all love Abraham Lincoln In a movie that bridge the silent film era into the talkie, see D.W. Griffith's film Abraham Lincon which was the first talking picture about the Civil War that Civil War veterans could watch. A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865. CAST: Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne, Lucille La Verne, Helen Freeman, Otto Hoffman DIRECTOR: D.W. Griffith RUN TIME: 96 min
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Every 3rd Friday, guest speakers present a topic for consideration and exploration. All subjects and approaches to conversation are invited, from traditional lectures, talks, slide shows to experiential learning involving the audience in active participation. February’s session will be Historical Society of Greenfield film screenings: “Greenfield’s Winter Carnival, 1923” and “Love’s Young Dream” with a talkback session to follow with HSG’s Chris Clawson and Carol Aleman. In March of 2024, local history fans and researchers Chris Clawson and Carol Aleman discovered a Pathé News newsreel from just over a hundred years ago. As Clawson recounts it, the forgotten reel from 1923, along with another from a year later, sat on a Historical Society of Greenfield shelf when they suddenly caught his attention. He and Aleman set about researching and restoring the films. “Greenfield’s Winter Carnival, 1923” is a 9-minute film documenting the first Winter Carnival. “Love’s Young Dream” is a one-act comedy-drama which was produced at the old Victoria (later Showplace) Theater on Chapman Street in June 1924, and features local Greenfield actors. Bridging the two films is a short documentary detailing the Historical Society’s discovery, what Chris Clawson and Carol Aleman learned about the films’ creation, and how they…
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Join GCC for a screening and discussion of the award-winning documentary Shuffle. Shot over three years, the film follows three individuals whose lives depend not on entering treatment, but on getting out alive. The film exposes a growing, insurance-driven cycle of addiction treatment fraud sweeping the country. Drawing on his own experience, the filmmaker weaves personal stories into a wider investigation. With insight from an FBI informant, an insurance analyst and the former executive director of a Philadelphia treatment facility, Shuffle reveals a web of public policy and private interests exploiting vulnerable people for profit. Featuring a talk-back with the filmmakers via Zoom directly following the film. Free and open to the public—but guests are encouraged to buy concessions! RSVP requested: https://www.gcc.mass.edu/events/shuffle/ |
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Double Feature on February 25th of Bonnie and Clyde (6:15PM) and Splendor in the Grass (4PM).
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Go wayback to the 1960's and enjoy two groovy Warren Beatty films for the price of one exclusively at the Greenfield Garden Cinema 4PM Splendor in the Grass 1961 A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness. CAST: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie, Barbara Loden, Zohra Lampert DIRECTOR: Elia Kazan RUN TIME: 124 min 6:15PM Bonnie & Clyde 1967 Bonnie and Clyde is based on the true stories of the gangster pair Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow who in the 1930s began robbing banks in U.S. cities until they were eventually killed. The film is a major landmark in the aesthetic movement known as the New Hollywood. CAST: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Wilder, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons DIRECTOR: Arthur Penn RUN TIME: 111 min
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