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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. [...]
JBFC Goes to the White House
Jacob Burns Film Center Attends the March on Washington Film Festival’s Student & Emerging Film Competition Awards Ceremony at the White House Created Equal Curriculum Recognized for the Powerful Role of Media in the Civil Rights Story The Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC) is pleased to announce it will attend the March on Washington Film Festival’s [...]
JBFC 15th Anniversary Celebration
The Jacob Burns Film Center’s (JBFC) 15th Anniversary Celebration will be held on Monday, June 20 on the JBF campus. The evening will include a special anniversary program in Theater One, followed by a party at JBFC’s Media Arts Lab. Since opening its doors to the public on June 21, 2001, over 2 million people [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cast Commentary
Get to know the “cast” here at the Jacob Burns Film Center: the employees, volunteers, and interns who make it possible to bring over 400 films a year to the community. Featuring Didi Kirtley, Membership/Customer Service Associate What about your job do you find most satisfying? I seem to be the resident “customer service guru” and [...]
