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JBFC Mixtapes, Vol. 20: Hooray for Hollywood
JBFC Mixtapes is an initiative from the Burns to highlight the music—from soundtracks to scores—that makes the cinematic experience so special. Vol. 20 comes to us from David Schwartz, former chief curator of the Museum of the Moving Image and host of the JBFC’s upcoming film club “Hooray for Hollywood: Sunday Mornings with David Schwartz.” Kicking off [...]
Cinemania Student Critic Review: Mary Poppins
by David Sapp, Cinemania Student Critic Robert Stevenson’s 1964 film Mary Poppins is about how a magical nanny helps transform two kids’ relationships with their father through fun and liveliness. The film is visually stunning and extremely impressive for the time period. Looking at it from a modern-day standpoint, it’s amazing what they were able [...]
A Decade of Film
By Sarah Soliman, Marketing Associate/Series Curator; Adapted: Page to Screen, and the JBFC Staff Vanity Fair’s Richard Lawson put very succinctly something that I’ve spent the past few weeks trying to express to my colleagues at the Burns when asking them to put these lists together: “Doing a ten best movies of the decade list [...]
Jacob Burns Film Center Announces Senior Afternoon Cinema Schedule for Winter 2020
December 9, 2019 – Pleasantville, NY – The Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC) has announced the programming for their ongoing Senior Afternoon Cinema series for winter 2020. Films are shown once a month on a Tuesday at 1:00 pm. This series is sponsored by The Knolls—A Bethel Community. The upcoming films and dates are: Jan. [...]
5th Graders, Human Rights, Climate Change, and the Storytellers of Tomorrow
by Tara O’Gorman, Image, Sound, and Story 5th Grade Teacher On Friday, October 28, 2019, Class 5 – O of the Casimir Pulaski School in Yonkers, NY was thrilled to have the honor of hosting JBFC’s Creative Culture/Focus On Nature Artist-in-Residence, Cinematographer, Filmmaker, and Neuroscientist Christi Cooper. In preparation for this exciting opportunity the class [...]
Cinemania Student Critic Review: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
by David Sapp, 8th Grade Cinemania Student Critic Marielle Heller’s 2019 film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is a drama about how a troubled journalist’s perspective on life is altered by renowned children’s show host Mr. Rogers. This film was much more dramatic and gripping than I initially assumed. It takes a story about a [...]
Cinemania Student Critic Review: Jojo Rabbit
by David Sapp, 8th Grade Cinemania Student Critic Taika Waititi’s 2019 film Jojo Rabbit is a film about a young boy who, influenced by the community he lives in, takes up being a Nazi. It is one of the few films I’ve seen that can balance a dark drama and a comedy perfectly. It will be funny [...]
Dig Deeper Into Parasite
“Parasite has been the talk of the programming department since we all saw it in August (one of us at TIFF in September) and we’re thrilled the film and its director—longtime friend of the Burns, Bong Joon Ho—are receiving such overwhelming acclaim. It’s one of those rare films that masterfully shifts between wide-ranging tones and themes, all while maintaining [...]
Jacob Burns Film Center Announces Executive Director Edie Demas Is Stepping Down
Pleasantville, NY – October 25, 2019 — The Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC), a nonprofit cultural arts center, announced today Edie Demas is stepping down as Executive Director. “After careful consideration with board leadership, I have made the difficult decision to leave the JBFC so that I may assume oversight and management of my father’s and now my [...]
Judy: Now Showing at the JBFC
by JBFC Programmer Karen Sloe Goodman Judy is in fact an unusual biopic of the iconic Hollywood star Judy Garland. Produced in the UK, the film had a hugely successful world premiere as the opening night selection the Telluride International Film Festival, where Oscar winner Renée Zellweger had the audience in tears, earned a 3 [...]
