Tag Archive: Movies
Celebrate Women’s History Month: Six Essential Films to Watch with Your Kids
Updated 3/1/23 March is around the corner, but with the inevitable sludge comes a beacon of light: Women’s History Month! In the article “Five Ways Museums Can Generate Empathy In The World,” Elif M. Gokcigdem poses the question: “How might one go about changing habitual and entrenched perspectives and behavior toward others?” As Gokcigdem [...]
JBFC Mixtapes, Vol. 1: Customer Service Assistant Tara Bongiorno
JBFC Mixtapes is a new initiative from the Burns to highlight the music—from soundtracks to scores—that makes the cinematic experience so special. We’ll be updating the blog with mixtapes from staff members, special guests, and more, to drop the needle on our favorite songs from, about, or inspired by films—with a few curveballs every now [...]
Giving Gloria Grahame Her Due: Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
By JBFC Senior Programmer, Andrew Jupin Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, the new film from Paul McGuigan, stars Annette Bening—in her second fantastic performance in as many years (she was incredible in last year’s 20th Century Women)—as Hollywood star Gloria Grahame and Jamie Bell as Peter Turner, Grahame’s lover during the last few years [...]
New to the Burns: FAQ
By JBFC Marketing Manager Paige Grand Pré New to the JBFC? Welcome! Whether you’ve just visited us for the first time or are considering stopping by in the near future, we hope the below Q&A will help you get to know “the Burns.” So, you guys are a movie theater? Well no, not exactly. Sure, [...]
{High School Student Critic Review: Shea} - The Breadwinner
By Shea Stevenson, High School Student Critic The Breadwinner is a 2017 animated film about Parvana, a young girl in Taliban controlled Afghanistan whose father is unjustly arrested, so she must dress as a boy to support her family while they try to find and save her father from prison. The film is directed by [...]
{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 [...]
I, Tonya Gives a Glimpse into the Cutthroat World of Figure Skating
By JBFC Senior Programmer, Andrew Jupin I, Tonya is an unconventionally constructed biopic about Tonya Harding, her unlikely rise to the top of the figure skating world, and her super-public fall from grace at the hands of her inept husband, Jeff Gillooly and “bodyguard,” Shawn Eckhardt. The film was a complete surprise to me. I first [...]
An Emotional Journey to Italy with Call Me by Your Name
By JBFC Marketing Associate Sarah Soliman There are films that feel more as if you’ve lived them than watched them, when you become immersed by the world on the screen, when it seems as if you’ve experienced what the characters have experienced. Call Me by Your Name is a movie you live. In the new [...]
Cinemania: Afterschool Film Club
By Sophie Cowley Is there a rising film buff in your life? Do they spend countless hours watching movies? What if, instead of staying at home in front of the TV, they could enjoy excellent films in the company of other film aficionados? Enter Cinemania: the Jacob Burns’ after school film club tailored especially for adolescents. [...]
Classroom to Screening Room
At the end of May we welcomed students from Alexander Hamilton High School in Elmsford, AMD Middle School in Ossining, and White Plains High School in White Plains for a screening of I Am Not Your Negro and discussion with producer Hébert Peck via Skype, Woodlands High School Assistant Principal Mandel Holland, and President of the [...]
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