Tag Archive: Film
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 [...]
Meditative Cinema
By JBFC Marketing Volunteer Dotty Battel Here’s your opportunity to wrap your mind around the mysteries of life, love, spirituality, and the biggest one of all: death. Explore what it all means with us in Dying to Know (narrated by Robert Redford) on Friday, May 6 at 7:30, our opening night film of The Meditative Life [...]
Creating Directors of Words: Image, Sound, and Story
By Janet Matthews, educator at Westlake High School Many students are used to viewing a film uncritically. To them, the techniques filmmakers use appear to be magic and often invisible. I don’t know exactly when the idea came to me and why it came so late but as a classroom English teacher and writing instructor, [...]
In the Eye of the Beholder
By Dotty Battel, JBFC Marketing Volunteer Five nights, five special films–our dynamic annual series, FrameWorks: Art on Film, returns to the Burns April 28–May 4. And while you are here (seeing any of the films showing in our 5 theaters), head upstairs to the Jane Peck Gallery to view a selection of animations by College Purchase [...]
My Golden Days… or Another Great Film from Desplechin
By JBFC Programmer Andrew Jupin There is a select list of filmmakers whose new works instantly become highly anticipated, even mandatory, film events upon release. One such filmmaker is, undoubtedly, Arnaud Desplechin. Since La sentinelle, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1992 and went on to the New York Film Festival the same [...]
Jonathan Gold on Context in Criticism
By JBFC Programmer Gina Duncan “Bistro K is almost too civilized on a busy Thursday night—a tiny, candlelit dining room with Ray Charles on the stereo, fresh flowers on linen tablecloths, couples bent over glasses of Beaujolais. Dinner-party groups of well-fed Pasadenans, the ones who haven’t quite scraped the Kerry/Edwards stickers off the bumpers of [...]
JBFC Viewing and Doing Party
We had a great time on Sunday, March 6 at our preview screening of The Little Prince and interactive party. Check out some highlights from the day and hear from filmmaker Mark Osborne, JBFC Executive Director Edie Demas, and JBFC Director of Education Emily Keating!
Introducing Stefaniya Vey: Spring 2016 Emerging Artist Fellow
By Stefaniya Vey, Spring 2016 Emerging Artist I was always the kid with never ending inspiration. I never thought, “what I am going to use this for?” – I just liked creating a good story. My mom thought I would be a journalist, or an actress. Growing up, in Perm City, which is located in [...]
{Cinemania Student Critic} Safety Last!
By JBFC Cinemania Student Critic Shea Stevenson Safety Last!, starring Harold Lloyd, is an old movie in black and white with no sound save the music constantly playing in the background. And if this does not sound like it’s your cup of tea, I implore you to reconsider. Having not seen any silent movies previously, [...]
Knight of Cups: A Worthy Cinematic Challenge
By JBFC Programmer Andrew Jupin If you’re familiar with Terrence Malick’s filmography, especially his output as of late, you know that his films are becoming a little more… abstract, narratively speaking. Since 2011’s <a href=”http://www nolvadex australia.imdb.com/title/tt0478304/” target=”_blank”>The Tree of Life, Malick’s films have been shifting further and further into these dream-like experiences—an occurrence you’re [...]
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