Can’t get enough movies of the 1930s? Check out these additional “satellite” film screenings taking place in downtown Lowell in celebration of the 3rd Annual Lowell Film Festival! Free admission, but seating is limited – first come, first served!




A MARX BROTHERS REVUE!

Enjoy three nights of classic Marx Brothers films offered “dinner-and-a-movie” style!

Friday, April 2
"Horse Feathers" (1932, 1hr 8 min)
7PM
Dharma Buns Sandwich Company, 26A Market Street

As Paramount Pictures’ highest-grossing film of 1932, Horse Feathers was the fourth Marx Brothers film to be released and features fabulous songwriting by the renowned Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby (who also co-wrote the film). The indomitable Groucho Marx is professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff, president of Huxley College. When he hires Baravelli and Pinky (Harpo and Chico) to win the college football game against rival Darwin U., hilarity quickly ensues! The comedic climax is no doubt one of the greatest football scenes in game history!


Saturday, April 3
"Duck Soup" (1933, 1hr 8 min)
7PM
Dharma Buns Sandwich Company, 26A Market Street

Commonly known as the Marx Brothers’ clever, comedic political satire, “Duck Soup” is also thought by many to be their greatest movie. When Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho) is made dictator of the small, bankrupt country of Freedonia at the request of the wealthy Mrs. Teasdale (Margaret Dumont), all out war is waged between Freedonia and neighboring Sylvania. Espionage, romance, and political corruption become the soup du jour!


Monday, April 5
"A Night at the Opera" (1935, 1hr 36 min)
7PM
Athenian Corner Restaurant, 207 Market Street

The Marx Brothers (sans Zeppo) enter high society in this first film made by the Brothers for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Love blooms on the Italian and New York stage between two performers of the opera Pagliacci – it’s up to Otis B. Driftwood (Groucho), Fiorello (Chico), and Tomasso (Harpo) to help the destined lovers be the toast of New York! Margaret Dumont enters the cast once again as the widowed socialite Mrs. Claypool. In the early 1990s, “A Night at the Opera” was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Presented by Athenian Corner Restaurant and the Lowell Film Collaborative.

THRILLING MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS!

The kitchen is open late every weekend at Dharma! Stay up through the wee hours with these two cult classics!

Friday, April 9
"Shadows and Fog" (1991, 1hr 25 min)
11:59PM
Dharma Buns Sandwich Company, 26A Market Street

Woody Allen pays homage to the great 1920s and 30s German Expressionist filmmakers Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, and G.W. Pabst – including the enigmatic writer Franz Kafka – in this 1991 visually compelling, black and white mystery. Unfolding nowhere in time and nowhere in place, a serial killer is on the loose, wreaking havoc on townspeople played by a Hollywood who’s who of characters including Madonna, John Cusack, Kathy Bates, Donald Pleasence, John Malkovich, Jodie Foster, Fred Gwynne, Lily Tomlin, and of course, Mia Farrow. The film is truly all shadows, fog, and illusion as the mystery unfolds, leading to a fabulous Murnau-esque ending!


Saturday, April 10
"Freaks" (1932, 1hr 4 min)
11:59PM
Dharma Buns Sandwich Company, 26A Market Street

In director Tod Browning’s controversial cult classic, the freaks in the film are really the characters who have NO disfigurement (instead of using makeup and costumes, Browning depicts circus life using true circus and career side-show performers, all of whom possess some form of abnormality). When the beautiful trapeze artist Cleopatra plots to marry (then murder) the wealthy leader of a circus troupe, his fellow side-show friends come to his rescue when the real truth behind the marriage is revealed. Viewer beware: horrid revenge is taken!