Tag Archive: Westchester
How Raiders of the Lost Ark Introduced Me to Art House Cinema
By JBFC Marketing Manager Lori Zakalik This year, at the first-ever Art House Theater Day, we are screening Steven Spielberg‘s classic archaeology-adventure story, Raiders of the Lost Ark. While some may feel this is a strange choice of programming for a day celebrating independent cinema, I am beyond thrilled that we’ve included it in our programming lineup. I [...]
Watch With Me, Mom!
By JBFC Executive Director Edie Demas This is a common refrain at my house. I hear it most often when I’m in serious multitasking mode, home late from work, worrying about a wholesome dinner, and trying not to look at my phone to catch any “might be urgent” last minute emails. My child’s plea, made [...]
Doomed Lovers
By JBFC Marketing Volunteer Dotty Battel You guessed it, Romeo and Juliet is coming to the Burns direct from the London’s Garrick Theatre, where Sir Kenneth Branagh, a master of Shakespeare on stage, has taken a year long residency. Before reading any further, catch this awesome video of Branagh introducing the play: This version of [...]
The Unfolding Story of the Universe
Mary Evelyn Tucker has visited the JBFC three times with her film Journey of the Universe. Earlier this month, Tucker sat down with the Garrison Institute to discuss her work. A Conversation with Mary Evelyn Tucker and Julianne Warren By Sam Mowe In their Journey of the Universe project—which includes a film, book, and website—philosopher Brian Thomas [...]
They’re Back!
By JBFC Marketing Volunteer Dotty Battel Edina and Patsy, the hilarious and decadent female characters in the smash TV Britcom Absolutely Fabulous, which ran for 20 years (1992-2012), are back—this time on the big screen. They’re older, no wiser, but just as outrageous! Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie opens here on July 22. Tickets are on sale now. [...]
A Tribute to Bill Cunningham
By JBFC Marketing Volunteer Dotty Battel “My whole thing is to be invisible” The New York Landmark Conservancy declared him a living landmark! I’m referring to Bill Cunningham, the legendary New York Times photographer whose prolific lens recorded fashion trends for over 40 years. “Fashion is doing its job…mirroring exactly our times,” he once said. On [...]
Filmmaker James Solomon Discusses The Witness
By James Solomon, director and producer, The Witness After the eleven years it took to make The Witness, it is a thrill to be showing the film at the Jacob Burns Film Center. The Witness, which premiered last October at the New York Film Festival, is a feature documentary about a brother’s relentless and loving quest [...]
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 [...]
15 Years of JBFC Education
By Emily Keating, JBFC Director of Education One of the most astonishing ways to reflect upon the last 15 years is to consider how our interaction with visual media has exploded. We understood, even in 2001, that the access to production and distribution of images was changing how we interact with one another. Yet who [...]
They're Back
By JBFC Marketing Volunteer Dotty Battel Beginning this month, we will be screening some oldies but goodies, great films that have endured the test of time, in our new ongoing series Retro Revivals. So get ready to travel back in film history with us each month and be reacquainted with some marvelous classics in their [...]
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