Tag Archive: Jacob Burns

Deadly SINema

This is a post by JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik The Burns is proud to present “Deadly SINema,” a film series running from June 23 through June 29. The series explores the Seven Deadly Sins through seven different films, rediscovering lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride on the big screen. We are working [...]

Friday
Jun 19

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

This is a post by JBFC Programmer Andrew Jupin In a post-Hunger Games film world, it seems like studios are churning out movies based on Young Adult novels left and right. To give you an example, in the last two years we’ve seen or will see the release of several YA adaptations including The Hunger [...]

Wednesday
Jun 17

God Only Knows

This is a post by JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik Love & Mercy, the Beach Boys biopic, directed by Bill Pohlad, opens at the Burns on June 5. About The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, it looks at him from two different decades in two parallel storylines. The first, the younger Wilson’s story, takes place in [...]

Wednesday
Jun 03

24 Hours to Make a Movie

This is a post by JBFC Communications Manager, Karolina Manko Today, we ready our filmmaking troops to take on one of the hardest, toughest, and most brutal of JBFC challenges. No, I’m not talking about buying a Friday-night movie ticket to a new release. I’m talking about making a movie in twenty-four hours! This evening [...]

Friday
May 29

Something to Think About

This is a post by JBFC Volunteer Dotty Battel Relax and breathe deeply, “The Meditative Life, a program of inspiring films, is being shown at 7:30 for six consecutive evenings, June 3-8. The series includes a selection of new docs about Eastern spirituality and the charismatic figures that have brought it to the Western world. It [...]

Wednesday
May 27

A Mother's Love

This is a post by JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik In the Name of My Daughter, a French thriller directed by André Téchiné, arrives at the Burns May 22. Based on a true story, it revolves around the fortunes of a casino, the inheritance that comes with it, the Mafia’s involvement, and the disappearance of [...]

Thursday
May 21

{Cinemania Student Critics} Antarctica in 3D!

Last week, our Cinemania Student Critics, Andrew and Caleb, went to a screening of Jon Bowermaster’s Antarctica 3D. Read what they had to say about the film and check out a photo from the event, below! Antarctica 3D, by Andrew Torpie Jon Bowermaster’s Antarctica 3D: On the Edge is a documentary film that explores the vastness and importance [...]

Wednesday
May 20

The Future of Books

This is a post by JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik On Tuesday, May 26, the Jacob Burns Film Center examines the future of books in the 21st century with a screening of Fahrenheit 451 and discussion with special guests Paul Holdengräber, director of the acclaimed Live at the New York Public Library, and Jonathan Demme, Oscar-winning [...]

Tuesday
May 19

Let’s Raise a Glass and Drink a Toast…

This is a post by JBFC Volunteer Dotty Battel To our new series “Wine & Film: The Perfect Pairing,” opened May 7, and is screening every Wednesday evening throughout the month of May. But there’s more good news…..each screening will be introduced by an editor from Wine Enthusiast magazine and a wine reception in the upstairs [...]

Tuesday
May 12

Señor Cebolla

This is a post by JBFC Director of Education, Emily Keating The power of story is a theme running through every JBFC education program, and its potency was on display on Friday, May 1 at Ossining High School. Director Jean-Michel Dissard led a workshop for 80 ESL students that used his moving documentary film, I [...]

Thursday
May 07
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