Tag Archive: New Releases
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 [...]
Our Favorite Films of 2016 and Our Struggle to Explain Why We Love Them
By Sarah Soliman and Lori Zakalik, JBFC Marketing Department WARNING: We tried to make this post as spoiler-free as possible. To be safe, if there is a film on this list that you have not seen, trust us that it’s good, watch it, and then read what we had to say. American Honey Sarah: I [...]
Why Moonlight is the Must-See Film of the Year
By Gina Duncan, JBFC director of industry engagement and special programs I don’t know what I can say about Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight that every major publication and respected film critic hasn’t said already. To quote several sources, Moonlight is a “lyrical” “astonishing” “beautifully humane” “masterpiece” and “the reason we go to the movies[.]” (I know critics [...]
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 [...]
Swiss Army Man
By Sarah Soliman, JBFC Marketing Assistant Yes, what you’ve heard is true. Swiss Army Man does indeed star Daniel Radcliffe as a corpse, and an excessively flatulent one. But more than being a feature-length fart joke, the film is a heartfelt buddy comedy, surrealist survival odyssey, and an empathetic sketch of two lonely men, adrift in [...]
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