Tag Archive: Jacob Burns Film Center
JBFC Mixtapes, Vol. 29: The Best of 2024 Soundtracks & Scores
JBFC Mixtapes is an initiative from the Burns to highlight the music—from soundtracks to scores—that makes the cinematic experience so special. JBFC Mixtapes, Vol. 29: The Best of 2024 Soundtracks & Scores comes to us from JBFC Customer Service Manager Tara Bongiorno, who reflected on a full year of film by pulling together her favorite [...]
Wild at Heart and Weird on Top: A Tribute to David Lynch
by JBFC Marketing Manager Paige Grand Pré When I heard the news that David Lynch had passed, it took everything in me not to weep at my desk. As with David Bowie’s death, it was shocking simply because it was hard to even think of David Lynch as mortal; he seemed to exist on another [...]
The Best of 2024: JBFC Staff's Favorite Films
by JBFC Marketing Manager Paige Grand Pré As we close out another year, we’re celebrating the cinematic medium with a compilation of “Best of 2024” lists from staff members across the Jacob Burns Film Center. Featuring a wide range of titles that made us laugh, cry, grow, think, reflect, and cheer, this best-of roundup is [...]
JBFC Mixtapes, Vol. 28: A Complete Unknown
by JBFC Marketing Manager Paige Grand Pré JBFC Mixtapes is an initiative from the Burns to highlight the music—from soundtracks to scores—that makes the cinematic experience so special. Vol. 28: A Complete Unknown comes to us from JBFC Marketing Manager Paige Grand Pré, who writes: “Raised by my father on a steady diet of classic rock [...]
Artists-in-Residence: Lorena Luciano & Filippo Piscopo
As part of our ongoing interviews with Artists-in-Residence at the Jacob Burns Film Center, we caught up with filmmakers Lorena Luciano and Filippo Piscopo earlier this month to discuss their current work-in-progress. Lorena and Filippo’s nonfiction project #NunsToo was selected for the 2024 Sundance Institute Documentary Edit Intensive, which was advised by filmmakers Mike Palmieri [...]
JBFC Mixtapes, Vol. 27: Valentine's Day Vibes
by JBFC Customer Service Manager Tara Bongiorno JBFC Mixtapes is an initiative from the Burns to highlight the music—from soundtracks to scores—that makes the cinematic experience so special. JBFC Customer Service Manager Tara Bongiorno originally curated JBFC Mixtapes, Vol. 27: Valentine’s Day Vibes to accompany the dessert reception after our Valentine’s Day screening of It [...]
JBFC Mixtapes, Vol. 26: Soundtrack to 2023
by JBFC Customer Service Manager Tara Bongiorno JBFC Mixtapes is an initiative from the Burns to highlight the music—from soundtracks to scores—that makes the cinematic experience so special. Vol. 26 comes to us from JBFC Customer Service Manager Tara Bongiorno, who originally compiled this mix to provide 3+ hours of tunes for the Burns’ year-end [...]
The Best of 2023: JBFC Staff's Favorite Films
by JBFC Marketing Manager Paige Grand Pré Between Barbenheimer and the writers and actors’ strikes, it’s been a wild year for the film industry! In celebration of the cinematic medium that weathered it all, we’ve compiled “Best of 2023” lists from staff members across the Jacob Burns Film Center. Featuring a wide range of titles [...]
JBFC Mixtapes, Vol. 25: Haunted Horror Marathon Music 2023
by JBFC Senior Film Programmer Monica Castillo JBFC Mixtapes is an initiative from the Burns to highlight the music—from soundtracks to scores—that makes the cinematic experience so special. Vol. 25: Haunted Horror Marathon Music 2023 comes to us from JBFC Senior Film Programmer Monica Castillo, who curated the perfect playlist to serve as a backdrop [...]
Coming Soon: New Cinema Studies Course on Alfred Hitchcock in Collaboration with NYU Tisch
Pleasantville, NY – September 22, 2023 – The Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC) is thrilled to further its collaboration with New York University (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts this fall through the launch of a new Cinema Studies course, Beyond Suspicion: Alfred Hitchcock. Led by a rotating roster of distinguished NYU faculty and PhD [...]
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