Tag Archive: Film
Laurie Anderson on Death, Love, Art, and Dogs
From multidisciplinary artist Laurie Anderson, Heart of a Dog is now showing at the Burns! Anderson was here for a special screening of the film on November 3. Hear what she had to say about her “philosophically astute, emotionally charged meditation on death, love, art and dogs.†(A.O. Scott, New York Times) and get your tickets today! [...]
Media Literacy Week: what to do?!
By Emily Keating, Director of Education Congratulations to the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) on its FIRST EVER US Media Literacy Week. I was honored to join NAMLE’s Leadership Council last year as this initiative was just an idea and I can’t be more proud of my colleagues in following through and soaring above every [...]
Pumpkin Revenge
Pumpkin Revenge is a short film made by our third and fourth grade Experiments in Media workshop. The focus of the workshop was isolating color. The students shot the film in black and white and then picked one object to convert to color. The result? This spooky Halloween treat!
Put Your Dancing Shoes On!
By Abby Popper, JBFC Public Relations It’s that time of year again–our annual Dance on Film series opens on October 29 for a little over a week’s worth of films and shorts that run the gamut from flamenco to Fred Astaire to tap and even a Free Member Event. (And that’s only a taste of what’s in store!) I can’t [...]
The Childhood of a Leader
By JBFC Board Member Jonathan Demme In my many years of involvement with the Burns, I have never been more excited about an upcoming JBFC screening than I am about our October 25th screening of 27-year-old Brady Corbet’s mind-blowing directorial debut, The Childhood of a Leader. When I try to trace my way back to other [...]
What Malala Can Teach Us All About Education
By JBFC Student Critic Caleb Feinstein Most teens today don’t imagine themselves risking their lives to stand up for thousands of people they don’t even know, but that’s exactly what one girl in Pakistan did. Malala Yousafzai grew up in the Swat Valley of Pakistan, the daughter of a private school teacher, diplomat, and public [...]
Introducing Reweina Tessema: Fall 2015 Emerging Artist Fellow
By Reweina Tessema, Fall 2015 Emerging Artist Fellow My appreciation for film has been obvious from a young age. However, my direct involvement in filmmaking was developed much later. If you told me in 2009, when I graduated high school, that I’d be pursuing a career in filmmaking after college I’d most likely say, “Awesome! So [...]
Women Filmmakers Shine at TIFF
By JBFC Programmer Karen Sloe Goodman Each September I travel to the Toronto International Film Festival along with my colleagues in the programming department from JBFC for an exhilarating and exhausting week of film immersion, during which the biggest challenge is to determine which five films to watch in any given day. This year, my [...]
Exploring the Military Side of Police
By JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik Peace Officer, a documentary directed by Scott Christopherson and Brad Barber, arrives at the Burns on Friday, October 2 featuring a Q&A with filmmaker Brad Barber for opening night of Global Watch: Crisis, Culture & Human Rights, with a reception afterwards. Peace Officer is a documentary about the militarization [...]
Driving Lessons Through Life
By JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik Learning To Drive, directed by Isabel Coixet (Elegy), arrives at the Burns on Friday, October 2. The movie follows Wendy (Patricia Clarkson) and Darwan (Ben Kingsley), two very different New York City residents whose stories overlap in a very significant way. Wendy is a rich Manhattanite book critic who owns [...]
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