Tag Archive: Foreign Films
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 [...]
ThanksGIFing with DysFUNctional Film Families
Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and we all know what that means–spending time with your family. Everyone’s family is a little crazy, but this year, just be thankful you’re not a member of a dysfunctional family in one of these 14 films: 1. Star Wars 2. The Addams Family 3. Harry Potter Movies 4. This [...]
Laugh, Cry, Think!
By Dotty Battel, JBFC Volunteer These are just a few of the responses you will have to the films in this 10th anniversary edition of Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema, Dec. 3-8. The series, hailed by The New York Times as an “annual treasure,” showcases a rich and varied selection of the finest contemporary Romanian filmmaking, [...]
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 [...]
Introducing Champ Ensminger: Summer 2015 Emerging Artist Fellow
This is a post by Champ Ensminger, Summer 2015 JBFC Emerging Artist Fellow [vimeo width=”600″ height=”365″ video_id=”100431797″] When I left New York last year for my birthplace of Chiang Mai, Thailand, I thought I had stepped away from my career and artistic practice in film for a while to enjoy some time traveling the other side [...]