Tag Archive: Film

Introducing Tara Clune

This is a post by JBFC Spring 2015 Emerging Artist Fellow Tara Clune While studying abroad in New Zealand, I simultaneously had the complete misfortune and good luck of registering for a Computer Graphics class. I was interested in writing animation software and was studying Computer Science at Columbia University with the dream of one day [...]

Monday
Mar 02

Welles and the Magician

This is a post by JBFC Programmer Andrew Jupin The further we get from a director’s final film, the easier it is to take that artist for granted. It’s easy to lose sight of how influential a filmmaker was, especially when the most recent examples of that person’s presence in pop culture are outtakes from [...]

Friday
Feb 27

{Cinemania Student Critic}The Best of Looney Tunes

This is a post by JBFC Cinemania Student Critic Caleb Feinstein This collection of classic cartoons is definitely fun for any age despite coming from a kids show. The Best of Looney Toons is full of well-known (One Froggy Evening and Duck Dodgers) and lesser-known episodes (Back Alley Oproar) to offer a variety of entertaining [...]

Thursday
Feb 26

A Boyhood Obsession

This is a post by JBFC Theater Staff Member Jeffrey Crowley Celebrating the film’s recent awards success, The Jacob Burns Film Center brought Richard Linklater‘s masterpiece Boyhood back to Pleasantville for daily screenings these past two weeks, and I promise you, you could not have found anyone in the tri-state area happier than me. Honestly, [...]

Sunday
Feb 15

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine’s Day from the JBFC! To celebrate, enjoy Fish in Love, a short, stop-motion animated video created by fourth graders in our Minds in Motion program. [youtube width=”600″ height=”365″ video_id=”iiv3_LC2ens”]

Friday
Feb 13
{Cinemania Student Critics} Favorite Snow Day Movie

{Cinemania Student Critics} Favorite Snow Day Movie

We asked Cinemania Student Critic Andrew Torpie to share with us his favorite movie to watch on a snow day and tell us why he loves it so much. The film he chose is one that a lot of people will agree is a pop culture classic. See what Andrew has to say about Mean Girls, below: [...]

Thursday
Feb 12

Is it Possible to Pick a Winner?

This is a post by Abby Popper, JBFC Public Relations I don’t know how they do it – the Oscar judges that is! Watching the Live Action Shorts that the Burns is showing over the next two weeks, you run the gamut of emotions (happy, sad, teary, laughing, thoughtful…you can add your own feelings after viewing) [...]

Wednesday
Feb 11

Image, Sound, and Story in the Classroom

This is a post by Brady Shoemaker, JBFC Director of Curriculum “Watch your framing,” I said as I looked over the student’s shoulder at the viewfinder of her camera. “Oh, right; rule of thirds,” she said as she adjusted her shot. It was a tough shot to get right–a reflection in a car’s side mirror–but [...]

Tuesday
Feb 10

No Need to Fly “Across the Pond” to See London’s National Gallery

This is a post by Abby Popper, JBFC Public Relations You can sit, not stand in line, avoid crowds, AND have the best tour ever both in front of and behind the scenes of London’s National Gallery in this richly detailed film by the great documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman (Crazy Horse, Titicut Follies, Boxing Gym). [...]

Monday
Feb 09

Campy, Cheezy….and Highly Entertaining!

This is a post by JBFC Volunteer Dotty Battel As TimeOut put it, The Oscar is a “tacky Tinseltown soaper…featuring numerous stellar walk-ons and dreadful dialogue,” and that about sums up Jonathan Demme’s latest selection for his “Rarely Seen Cinema“ series.  “It never ceases to amaze me how deeply fun and gratifying this inarguably “bad” movie can [...]

Sunday
Feb 08
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