Tag Archive: New Releases
Join the Pack: Introducing The JBFC Brat Pack for Young Fans of the Burns
by JBFC Marketing Associate Paige Grand Pré The JBFC is proud to announce a new way for “young fans of the Burns” to engage: The Brat Pack, a community for moviegoers looking to connect with fellow film fans in the Westchester/Hudson Valley area! Set up as a Facebook group to facilitate the open exchange of [...]
The Series that Never Was: Socio-Political Satire
JBFC Senior Programmer Andrew Jupin, responsible for programming for our Preview Club groups, recently shared his thoughts on February’s Preview Club screening, The Death of Stalin. Below you can find his thoughts on the film, which opens Friday, March 23rd at the JBFC (with advance tickets on sale now – click HERE to purchase!), as well [...]
The Newest Garrel Family Collaboration: Lover for a Day
By JBFC Senior Programmer, Andrew Jupin The latest from veteran French director Philippe Garrel, Lover for a Day—the third part of a trilogy—first showed at the 2017 Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. I caught it last September at the New York Film Festival, which has screened all three films in Garrel’s trilogy. The [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
A Great Year for Movies: Our Favorite Films of 2017
By JBFC Marketing Associate Paige Grand Pré, Special Events Coordinator Nicole Klein, Membership & Marketing Associate Nicole LaLiberty, Programming Administrator Saidah Russell, & Marketing Associate Sarah Soliman 2017 has been an exciting year for movie-goers. It started out strong with the incisive and terrifying Get Out, offered us a summer of electrifying films like Baby Driver [...]
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 [...]
Lady Bird: A Conversation
By JBFC Membership & Marketing Associate Nicole LaLiberty, JBFC Programming Administrator Saidah Russell, and JBFC Marketing Associate Sarah Soliman Lady Bird is the solo directorial debut of Greta Gerwig, who audiences might recognize from 20th Century Women, Frances Ha, or Jackie, among her other credits. Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn) stars as the titular Lady Bird (a [...]
Dame Judi: Queen of the Screen
By JBFC Marketing Volunteer Dotty Battel Dench, now 82….”remains the world’s most formidable pixie, and in Victoria & Abdul she’s in her element….” (Variety) It’s 1887 and the long-reigning Queen Victoria, old, fat, and, lonely has just about given up on life when Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal) a young Indian Muslim clerk journeys to London [...]
Season's Screenings
Peruse our holiday lineup, stacked with festive fan favorites!
Wicked: For Good
Now Showing
Immigration Nation
Dec. 15-18: Hester Street & Yentl