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There’s Music in the Air and On the Screen!
By JBFC Marketing Volunteer Dotty Battel Summer’s finally here and for all you music lovers, you’ll be happy to know that Sounds of Summer, our annual festival of new music docs (and a few sensational classics such as Stop Making Sense), returns to the Burns July 6–August 25. Whatever your musical passion, you’ll find plenty [...]
Swiss Army Man
By Sarah Soliman, JBFC Marketing Assistant Yes, what you’ve heard is true. Swiss Army Man does indeed star Daniel Radcliffe as a corpse, and an excessively flatulent one. But more than being a feature-length fart joke, the film is a heartfelt buddy comedy, surrealist survival odyssey, and an empathetic sketch of two lonely men, adrift in [...]
Cast Commentary
Get to know the “cast” here at the Jacob Burns Film Center: the employees, volunteers, and interns who make it possible to bring over 400 films a year to the community. Featuring Didi Kirtley, Membership/Customer Service Associate What about your job do you find most satisfying? I seem to be the resident “customer service guru” and [...]
15 Years of JBFC Education
By Emily Keating, JBFC Director of Education One of the most astonishing ways to reflect upon the last 15 years is to consider how our interaction with visual media has exploded. We understood, even in 2001, that the access to production and distribution of images was changing how we interact with one another. Yet who [...]
De Palma: New Doc Gives Intimate Look at Brian De Palma's Body-of-Work
By Sarah Soliman, JBFC Marketing Assistant Brian De Palma, best known for his mastery of horror and thrillers, is a divisive figure. The director of films such as Carrie, Scarface, Blow Out, Carlito’s Way, and Mission: Impossible, has been disparaged or ignored by critics, and accused of misogyny, misanthropy, and a number of other things as [...]
They're Back
By JBFC Marketing Volunteer Dotty Battel Beginning this month, we will be screening some oldies but goodies, great films that have endured the test of time, in our new ongoing series Retro Revivals. So get ready to travel back in film history with us each month and be reacquainted with some marvelous classics in their [...]
JBFC Announces Ticket Price Reduction for Family Programs
All tickets $5 starting in April
Big Screen, Big Movies: A Celebration of the Cinema Epic
Now Showing through April 20
Jewish Film Festival 2025
Apr. 23–29: Tickets on Sale Now