Tag Archive: Movies
A Tribute to Bill Cunningham
By JBFC Marketing Volunteer Dotty Battel “My whole thing is to be invisible” The New York Landmark Conservancy declared him a living landmark! I’m referring to Bill Cunningham, the legendary New York Times photographer whose prolific lens recorded fashion trends for over 40 years. “Fashion is doing its job…mirroring exactly our times,” he once said. On [...]
Filmmaker James Solomon Discusses The Witness
By James Solomon, director and producer, The Witness After the eleven years it took to make The Witness, it is a thrill to be showing the film at the Jacob Burns Film Center. The Witness, which premiered last October at the New York Film Festival, is a feature documentary about a brother’s relentless and loving quest [...]
There’s Music in the Air and On the Screen!
By JBFC Marketing Volunteer Dotty Battel Summer’s finally here and for all you music lovers, you’ll be happy to know that Sounds of Summer, our annual festival of new music docs (and a few sensational classics such as Stop Making Sense), returns to the Burns July 6–August 25. Whatever your musical passion, you’ll find plenty [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Live on Stage: Musicians, Singers…and All That Jazz!
By JBFC Marketing Volunteer Dotty Battel We cannot think of a better way to usher in June, the month of love and marriage, than by spending an exhilarating evening with us (and your special someone) immersed in the sights and sounds of great jazz! Here are 3 special programs (part of our annual series Jazz [...]
Love & Friendship: The Long-Awaited Union of Whit Stillman and Jane Austen
By Sarah Soliman, JBFC Marketing Assistant In Love & Friendship, the newest film from Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco, Damsels in Distress), the seminal indie filmmaker’s sensibility meets its perfect match in Jane Austen. Based on a lesser known Austen work, Lady Susan, Love & Friendship sees Stillman delving into a [...]
Meditative Cinema
By JBFC Marketing Volunteer Dotty Battel Here’s your opportunity to wrap your mind around the mysteries of life, love, spirituality, and the biggest one of all: death. Explore what it all means with us in Dying to Know (narrated by Robert Redford) on Friday, May 6 at 7:30, our opening night film of The Meditative Life [...]
In the Eye of the Beholder
By Dotty Battel, JBFC Marketing Volunteer Five nights, five special films–our dynamic annual series, FrameWorks: Art on Film, returns to the Burns April 28–May 4. And while you are here (seeing any of the films showing in our 5 theaters), head upstairs to the Jane Peck Gallery to view a selection of animations by College Purchase [...]
Elaine May and the Road to Ishtar
On Thursday, March 31 we were lucky enough to welcome legendary comedian, actress, writer, and filmmaker Elaine May, who rarely makes public appearances, to the Burns for a screening of her hilarious and grossly misunderstood film Ishtar. Our audience loved the film and savored the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear from and interact with the quick-witted May. Richard Brody, film critic [...]
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