'The Diary of Anne Frank' - 50th Anniversary Screening November 15, 2009

A Light Against Darkness...

"The Diary of Anne Frank"
50th Anniversary Screening of the Motion Picture Dramatization

Starring Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters. Directed by George Stevens.
Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of Anne Frank's Birth

Hosted by George Stevens, Jr.

Sunday, November 15th at 3 PM

The Landmark Loew's Jersey Theatre
54 Journal Sq., Jersey City, NJ
(201) 798-6055
www.loewsjersey.org

Presented by Friends of the Loew's & Temple Beth-El of Jersey City
Co-Sponsored by the City of Jersey City

Admission: $6 for Adults, $4 for Seniors (65+), Students w/ID and Children (12 & younger)

Don't miss this rare Big Screen revival of this classic film.

The scale of the Nazi genocide is almost beyond comprehension. But "The Diary of Anne Frank" makes the horror of the Holocaust personal and reaffirms the humanity that Hitler and his henchmen tried to strip from their victims. It is one of the most widely read books in the world.

George Stevens (director of such Hollywood classics as "Shane", "Giant", and "The Greatest Story Ever Told") directed this adaptation of the award-winning stage play based on Anne Frank's writings, "The Diary of a Young Girl". The work was very personal for Stevens, who, by his own admission, had undergone a life-changing experience while documenting the horrors of WWII in general and of the Nazi death camps in particular for the US Army. Otto Frank (Anne's father and the only surviving member of the Frank family) cooperated with Stevens during the production.
In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, 13-year-old Anne Frank, a Jew whose family had fled Germany some years before, is forced into hiding in a few secret rooms of a building where her father worked. With her in the tiny quarters are her father, mother and sister and another family. Struggling to survive under very difficult circumstances, all the while hoping and praying for Holland to be liberated by the Allies, Anne keeps a diary in which she eloquently details the thoughts and feelings of a young adolescent juxtaposed against the cruelly extraordinary circumstances in which she must try to survive. Anne's story not only dramatizes the terror of living under unimaginable persecution but also reveals the inspiring courage of the human spirit in the face of adversity. For her role, Shelley Winters received an Academy Award, which she donated to the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam.

The Loew's Is Easy To Get To:
The Loew's Jersey Theatre, at 54 Journal Square, Jersey City, NJ, is directly across JFK Boulevard from the JSQ PATH Center with trains to and from Lower and Midtown Manhattan and Newark's Penn Station, is minutes from the NJ Turnpike & easily reached by car or mass transit from throughout the Metro Area.
Discount off-street parking is available in Square Ramp Garage adjoining the Loew's. Patrons must validate their parking ticket before leaving the Loew's.
What's Special About Seeing A Movie At The Loew's?

The Landmark Loew's Jersey Theatre is one of America's grandest surviving Movie Palaces. We show movies the way they were meant to be seen: in a grandly ornate setting -- on our BIG 50 ft wide screen! The Loew's runs reel-to-reel, not platter, projection, which often allows us to screen an archival or studio vault print that is the best available copy of a movie title.
The Loew's Jersey is managed by Friends of the Loew's, Inc. as a non-profit, multi-discipline performing arts center.
For directions or more information: Call (201) 798-6055 or visit www.loewsjersey.org.

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