Tag Archive: Music
A Guide to Sounds of Summer 2017
By Sophie Cowley With summer right around the corner, the Burns is gearing up for its annual Sounds Of Summer series! From June 29 to August 17, the Burns will be showing timeless classics like Stop Making Sense alongside exciting new music documentaries like Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World and I Am The Blues. The [...]
All things JAZZ!
By JBFC Marketing Volunteer Dotty Battel Are you ready? You are not going to want to miss the amazing selections in this year’s Jazz Sessions: The Greats on Camera series, May 18–June 22, including five rousing films and four live performances! We kick things off by celebrating the incomparable Satchmo! Will Friedwald, longtime friend of the Burns, [...]
{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 [...]
The Band You Know, the Story You Don't
By JBFC Marketing Volunteer Dotty Battel All you Fab Four fans out there—you definitely are going to want to see one of our exclusive Westchester screenings (Sept 15-22) of Ron Howard’s highly anticipated doc about the band’s phenomenal early years, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week–The Touring Years. Produced with the full cooperation of Paul [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Announcing the World Premiere of "Us"
By Champ Ensminger, Summer 2015 Emerging Artist Fellow Last week, Champ Ensminger, premiered his incredible and much-anticipated music video, Us. Champ was the Spring 2015 Emerging Artist Fellow here at the JBFC. The video is currently enjoying an international release online through well-known music-magazine, The FADER. Uswas created in close collaboration with Westchester resident and musician, Zach Cooper. [...]
A Lesson in Folk History Comes to the Burns
By JBFC Programmer Karen Sloe Goodman Like so many of us who grew up in the wake of the 60’s folk revival, I shared the joys of the folk song tradition with fellow musicians, exploring Appalachian roots and the history of our country through the lens of American stories made popular by Pete Seeger and [...]
Music to My Ears
This is a post by JBFC Marketing Intern, Stacy Zakalik [vimeo width=”600″ height=”365″ video_id=”132219825″] The 2015 “Sounds of Summer: New Music Documentaries” series is at the Burns from July 16 through August 27, 2015. Exploring many different musical genres and styles, from The Beatles to R.E.M. to the untold story of The Who, this series [...]
Amy
This is a post by JBFC Marketing Intern Allen Kessman The new, critically acclaimed, documentary of singer Amy Winehouse, Amy, opens at the Burns July 10. Directed by Asif Kapadia and distributed by A24, Amy takes an exclusive look into the tragic life of London-based singer Amy Winehouse, mainly through never-before-seen home footage. Amy Winehouse exploded [...]
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