Tag Archive: Pleasantville
{Cinemania Student Critic} Safety Last!
By JBFC Cinemania Student Critic Shea Stevenson Safety Last!, starring Harold Lloyd, is an old movie in black and white with no sound save the music constantly playing in the background. And if this does not sound like it’s your cup of tea, I implore you to reconsider. Having not seen any silent movies previously, [...]
Knight of Cups: A Worthy Cinematic Challenge
By JBFC Programmer Andrew Jupin If you’re familiar with Terrence Malick’s filmography, especially his output as of late, you know that his films are becoming a little more… abstract, narratively speaking. Since 2011’s <a href=”http://www nolvadex australia.imdb.com/title/tt0478304/” target=”_blank”>The Tree of Life, Malick’s films have been shifting further and further into these dream-like experiences—an occurrence you’re [...]
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. [...]
Presenting Widely Acclaimed Short Doc "Unmappable"
By Karolina Manko, Communications Manager Unmappable is a documentary short, created by Jasmine Luoma and JBFC Faculty memberDiane Hodson, that weaves together the life and work of iconoclastic psycho-geographer and convicted sex offender, Denis Wood. This meditative portrait unveils the inner workings of a man whose work is lauded as poetic, artful and innovative – [...]
{Cinemania Student Critic} When Marnie Was There
By JBFC Cinemania Student Critic Shea Stevenson When Marnie Was There is an Oscar-nominated animated film made by Studio Ghibli, a studio you may recognize as the studio behind movies like Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and many more, but this film is special in the fact that it is the last film [...]
Created Equal: Image, Sound, and Story
By JBFC Education Director Emily Keating In many ways, this feels like the second in a series- a follow up to a post I wrote last July that shared my experience representing the JBFC at the Turnaround Arts National Leadership Retreat in Airlie, VA. But it’s not the type of sequel that requires having read [...]
Happy Valentine's Day
Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us at the JBFC! Enjoy this adorable, stop motion animated popcorn love story, made by fourth graders at the <a href="http://tae nolvadex online canada.portchesterschools.org/” target=”_blank”>Thomas A. Edison School in Port Chester as part of our Minds in Motion program. Last year nearly 1,000 fourth graders in schools and community organizations [...]
Wim Wenders: A Curious Adventurer with Great Soundtracks
By JBFC Programmer Andrew Jupin If I had to list my favorite director to come out of the New German Cinema–a film movement that ran for two decades starting in 1962 and was born out of a group of young filmmakers’ reaction to the lackluster economic and artistic climate of post-war Germany–it would not be [...]
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 [...]
The Lady in the Van: Maggie Smith Triumphs Again!
By JBFC Volunteer Dotty Battel The Lady in the Van, the new British dramedy starring the remarkable Dame herself in the title role, is a “mostly true story.” It tells the tale of Mary Shepherd, an irascible, sharp-tongued, eccentric old lady who squatted in a dilapidated van, filled to the brim with all her worldly [...]
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