Tag Archive: Movies for Kids
{High School Student Critic Review} - The Breadwinner
By Caleb Feinstein, High School Student Critic The Breadwinner, directed by Nora Twomey, tells the interesting story of Parvana and her life in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Living in poverty, Parvana and her injured father frequent the market to sell what little they have. Despite their living conditions, the family is comforted by the vivid stories told [...]
{Cinemania Student Critic} A Recycled Orchestra
By JBFC Cinemania Student Critic Ilani Denzer In a town that is home to Paraguay’s main landfill Favio Chavez, a resourceful ganchero, and many determined children came together and formed the Landfill Orchestra of Cateura. Here 40% of the youth don’t finish school because their parents need them to pick garbage in the landfill to [...]
{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 [...]
{Cinemania Student Critics} Fantastic Mr. Fox
By Cinemania Student Critic Emily Loza Fantastic Mr. Fox is a funny, family friendly, fundamentally FANTASTIC stop-motion film directed by, Wes Anderson. Mr. Fox, his wife, Mrs.Fox, his son Ash, and Kristofferson, Mr.Fox’s nephew who came to visit, all live a normal life in their home under a tree. But, after 2 years, Mr. Fox’s [...]
Bring the Family to Fantastic Mr. Fox
By Guest Writer Betsy Bishop This November we’re excited to be screening Wes Anderson’s stop-motion comedy Fantastic Mr. Fox. As the film is based on Roald Dahl‘s classic book, we were happy to have Betsy Bishop, a librarian with our JBFC Kids Community Partner Westchester Library System, write this guest post for us. Need something to [...]
Jacob Burns Film Center Launches New Initiative JBFC Kids
The Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC) announced the launch of JBFC Kids, an exciting new initiative to welcome a new generation of film lovers into the JBFC community. JBFC Kids is designed to help foster a love for cinema and media-making in children ages three to thirteen, via three different approaches: films, free hands-on activities, and courses for kids and their [...]
15 Years of JBFC Education
By Emily Keating, JBFC Director of Education One of the most astonishing ways to reflect upon the last 15 years is to consider how our interaction with visual media has exploded. We understood, even in 2001, that the access to production and distribution of images was changing how we interact with one another. Yet who [...]
JBFC Viewing and Doing Party
We had a great time on Sunday, March 6 at our preview screening of The Little Prince and interactive party. Check out some highlights from the day and hear from filmmaker Mark Osborne, JBFC Executive Director Edie Demas, and JBFC Director of Education Emily Keating!
{Cinemania Student Critic} Safety Last!
By JBFC Cinemania Student Critic Shea Stevenson Safety Last!, starring Harold Lloyd, is an old movie in black and white with no sound save the music constantly playing in the background. And if this does not sound like it’s your cup of tea, I implore you to reconsider. Having not seen any silent movies previously, [...]
{Cinemania Student Critic} When Marnie Was There
By JBFC Cinemania Student Critic Shea Stevenson When Marnie Was There is an Oscar-nominated animated film made by Studio Ghibli, a studio you may recognize as the studio behind movies like Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and many more, but this film is special in the fact that it is the last film [...]
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