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We’re sitting in the middle of Chinatown park, wrapping up our final film CHILDREN OF INVENTION. More photos here. (This entry was uploaded live from the park using free public WIFI provided by the Greenway.) Thanks to everyone for joining us at Films at the Gate 2010. See you next year.
Join us at 8:00PM tonight in Chinatown Park on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway as we close out Films at the Gate 2010. Tonight’s film CHILDREN OF INVENTION was filmed, in part, in Boston’s Chinatown. It tells the story of two young children living illegally in a model apartment outside Boston are left to fend [...]
Saturday’s animated film HAVOC IN HEAVEN (1961) lit up Chinatown Park tonight. Thanks to Bow Sim Mark Tai Chi Arts Association for kicking things off with a beautiful demonstration class. Tomorrow is our final night. Join us for CHILDREN OF INVENTION (2009), the first English-language film ever shown at Films at the Gate. The independent film [...]
During Films at the Gate 2010, you’ve seen martial arts demonstration classes on the vacant lot just before the space is transformed into an outdoor, neighborhood cinema each night. That’s because we asked several local groups, who normally conduct their classes behind closed doors, to come down and do their work on the lot, so [...]
Thanks to our Films at the Gate volunteers for a professional-grade set up and strike. Thanks to Wah Lum Kung Fu Athletic Association for opening the show. Thanks to our audience for bringing extra folding chairs so more could find a seat. Thanks to Gilbert Ho for translating on the fly. Thanks to curator Jean Lukitsh [...]
This evening, Films at the Gate will feature a classic and one of the best: Jackie Chan’s DRUNKEN MASTER (1978). Check out the full schedule of films here, or read on as Films at the Gate Curator Jean Lukitsh introduces the real drunken master behind tonight’s film: Jackie Chan’s DRUNKEN MASTER (1978) is one of [...]
Sometimes there are a few empty chairs on the first night. Not tonight. You sat, stood, and kneeled on the lot to catch the opening of the fifth year of Films of the Gate. Thanks for coming down and transforming a vacant lot into a movie theater. Friday is Jackie Chan in Drunken Master. Let’s [...]
Films at the Gate launches on Thursday night 8/26 with BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS – 2009. (Full schedule here.) Curator Jean Lukitsh reminds us that BODYGUARDS star Donnie Yen may just be Boston’s biggest movie star: Forget about Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. In Asia, the biggest star to come out of Boston is Donnie Yen. [...]
Final preparations are underway for Films at the Gate 2010. The Boston Globe interviewed curator Jean Lukitsh about this year’s films in an article running tomorrow. Get all the event details and schedule here. See you soon on the lot.
Films at the Gate began as a simple idea five years ago. It’s still simple: join us this week to watch films together, outdoors, for free, in a vacant lot in downtown Boston. Help us make the most of urban space. The Boston Globe interviewed curator Jean Lukitsh about this year’s films in an article [...]
The sun goes down and the films roll at 8PM, but here are some things to experience before you take a seat at Films at the Gate 2010: Walking Tours depart every night from the Chinatown Gate at 6:00PM (45 min, THU-SUN 8/26-29) . Led by youth from the Asian Community Development Corporation, you’ll get an [...]
In 2006, when Films at the Gate first transformed a vacant lot into an outdoor cinema, next door was a sandy construction site where a park was taking shape. With permission, we drew power from a contractor’s trailer, which sat in the middle of what is now, officially, Chinatown Park and the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy [...]
Inspired by Films at the Gate, the Fenway Community Development Corporation held their own free, outdoor, movie screenings for the Fenway community, borrowing a vacant parking lot from The Abbey Group for the occasion. “Starlight Movie Nights” were held Aug 6 and 7, and each evening included performances of spoken word. Boston Street Lab provided [...]
Films at the Gate is back. It’s simple: watch great films, outside, together, for free. Here’s the 2010 schedule and directions.
On Saturday, August 28, Films at the Gate will present the full-length animated feature HAVOC IN HEAVEN (1961). Thanks to our curator Jean Lukitsh for the following introduction to the film’s pioneering creators, the Wan Brothers: Animation got its start in China in 1922, with the Wan brothers’ SHUZHENDONG CHINESE TYPEWRITER, a short advertisement produced [...]