Tag Archive: New Releases
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 [...]
Late Nights at the JBFC
By Andrew Jupin, Senior Programmer You might notice that there are films showing up in our schedule that are only screening late at night. We started this last month with a week of late-night screenings for the fantastically entertaining, Polish mermaid musical, The Lure. If you missed it, I can’t recommend it enough; you should [...]
Black, White, and Gray in Jim Jarmusch's Paterson
by Michael Bloom, Pleasantville High School student Paterson is a film that reminded me a lot of my favorite movie of 2016, Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!!. When taken at face value both movies seem to be about nothing. Their plots meander, they both feel at times repetitive, and they both have a time motif [...]
The Purchase Beat Reviews I Am Not Your Negro
By Kerby Marcelin, Purchase College Thank you to The Purchase Beat for allowing us to reprint this review. Raoul Peck’s Oscar-nominated documentary “I Am Not Your Negro” acquaints the world with the architect in writer and social critic James Baldwin. An architect whose plan rests on his perspicuous, poignant, and thought-provoking words. Peck beautifies 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