Tag Archive: Foreign Films
{Cinemania Student Critic} Landfill Harmonic
By JBFC Cinemania Student Critic Ty Amsterdam Landfill Harmonic is an uplifting documentary that has such an incredible storyline, it could almost seem fictional! The film takes place in Cateura, a town in Paraguay where most of the residents try to find work at the garbage dump. We follow Favio Cháves, who decided to inspire [...]
The Big Shorts
By JBFC Marketing Volunteer Dotty Battel One thing to love about Oscar season: we get to watch short films in theaters! And as always, these works are part of the 2016 Academy Awards action. The 15 films nominated this time around are being showcased in 4 separate film programs: Animation, Live Action, and Documentaries: Program [...]
Our Favorite Films of 2016 and Our Struggle to Explain Why We Love Them
By Sarah Soliman and Lori Zakalik, JBFC Marketing Department WARNING: We tried to make this post as spoiler-free as possible. To be safe, if there is a film on this list that you have not seen, trust us that it’s good, watch it, and then read what we had to say. American Honey Sarah: I [...]
2016's Underseen Gems
By Sarah Soliman, Marketing Assistant “Best of” lists are a permanent fixture in film criticism towards the end of each year, and there is a ubiquity not just of the lists themselves, but of the specific titles found on those lists. In 2016 you know you are likely—and with good reason—to find Barry Jenkins’s exquisite [...]
Retro Revival–Fall 2016
By JBFC Marketing Volunteer Dotty Battel As you may recall, we introduced this on-going series over the summer. It is our salute to the world of retrospective cinema, and hopefully you had a chance to catch one or two screenings. Thanks to the dedication of film preservationists who have become, according to New York Times [...]
Arab Cinema's Fifth Installment is a Series of Firsts
By Contemporary Arab Cinema Programmer Lina Matta For ANA <a href=”https://burnsfilmcenter site web.org/series/contemporary-arab-cinema-2/” target=”_blank”>Contemporary Arab Cinema‘s 5th anniversary, we wanted to surprise you with a couple firsts. Rounding up the extraordinary selection of award-winning films from Egypt, Palestine, Kurdistan, Lebanon, Tunis, Algeria, Morocco, and the UAE, we brought in an exhibit of film posters from [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wim Wenders: A Curious Adventurer with Great Soundtracks
By JBFC Programmer Andrew Jupin If I had to list my favorite director to come out of the New German Cinema–a film movement that ran for two decades starting in 1962 and was born out of a group of young filmmakers’ reaction to the lackluster economic and artistic climate of post-war Germany–it would not be [...]
Son of Saul: A Harrowing and Intense Tale
By Stacy Zakalik, JBFC Marketing Intern The Academy Award nominated Son of Saul, directed by László Nemes, opens at the Burns Friday, January 29. An uncompromising look at the Nazi death camps in World War II, this film follows the struggles of Saul Ausländer (Géza Röhrig), a Jewish concentration camp worker and member of the Sonderkommando, the group of [...]
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