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Home Movie Celebration

By JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik On Saturday, October 17, from noon to 4:00 pm, we are celebrating Westchester’s second annual Home Movie Day at the Theater’s Jane Peck Gallery. We’re the only place in Westchester where you can participate in Home Movie Day, which is free and open to the public, and the event will feature [...]


Home Movie Celebration

This is a post by JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik On Saturday, October 17, from noon to 4:00 pm, we are celebrating Westchester’s second annual Home Movie Day at the Theater’s Jane Peck Gallery. We’re the only place in Westchester where you can participate in Home Movie Day, which is free and open to the public, and [...]


Not Your Typical Grandmother

By JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik Lily Tomlin stars in Grandma, directed by Paul Weitz (American Pie, Admission), which arrives at the Burns September 4. Lily Tomlin is Elle Reid, a 75 year-old former poet, who has just lost the love of her life, Violet. A poet, feminist, grouchy old woman, and a cursing grandma, [...]


Not Your Typical Grandmother

This is a post by JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik  Lily Tomlin stars in Grandma, directed by Paul Weitz (American Pie, Admission), which arrives at the Burns September 4. Lily Tomlin is Elle Reid, a 75 year-old former poet, who has just lost the love of her life, Violet. A poet, feminist, grouchy old woman, [...]


Infinite Quest (For Answers)

This is a post by JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik The End of the Tour, opening August 14 at the Burns, is about the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) and the acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel), writer of the famous novel, Infinite Jest. Though the film revolves around a 1996 interview [...]


Radio Heads

This is a post by JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik A very special part of the JBFC’s Sounds of Summer series screens August 18 with the film, I Am What I Play. From first-time director Roger King, it tells the story of the radio format in its heyday and four very important DJ’s from four [...]


Come As You Are

This is a post by JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, about the late singer and guitarist of the famous band Nirvana, is showing at the Burns August 7-9. An unflinching look at Kurt Cobain, its title comes from one of Cobain’s aptly titled cassettes, experimenting with music and spoken word. The [...]


A New Kind of Thriller

This is a post by JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik Phoenix, directed by Christian Petzold (Barbara), opens at the Burns July 31 as a Westchester Exclusive. A noir thriller rich with ties to Alfred Hitchcock, it is a film that surprises, intrigues, and makes for some interesting postscreening discussion. Nelly Lenz (Nina Hoss) has just [...]



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