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Filmmaker James Solomon Discusses The Witness
By James Solomon, director and producer, The Witness After the eleven years it took to make The Witness, it is a thrill to be showing the film at the Jacob Burns Film Center. The Witness, which premiered last October at the New York Film Festival, is a feature documentary about a brother’s relentless and loving quest [...]
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 [...]
Live on Stage: Musicians, Singers…and All That Jazz!
By JBFC Marketing Volunteer Dotty Battel We cannot think of a better way to usher in June, the month of love and marriage, than by spending an exhilarating evening with us (and your special someone) immersed in the sights and sounds of great jazz! Here are 3 special programs (part of our annual series Jazz [...]
Love & Friendship: The Long-Awaited Union of Whit Stillman and Jane Austen
By Sarah Soliman, JBFC Marketing Assistant In Love & Friendship, the newest film from Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco, Damsels in Distress), the seminal indie filmmaker’s sensibility meets its perfect match in Jane Austen. Based on a lesser known Austen work, Lady Susan, Love & Friendship sees Stillman delving into a [...]
Social Impact at the JBFC
By Lori Zakalik, JBFC Marketing Manager On Thursday, May 12, we were honored at the Westchster MLK Jr. Institute for Nonviolence’s seventh annual Celebration of Champions for all the work we do to promote social change throughout the community. With our films, events, community screenings, international fellows, and special guests, we strive to spark dialogue, eliminate [...]
