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Women Filmmakers Shine at TIFF
By JBFC Programmer Karen Sloe Goodman Each September I travel to the Toronto International Film Festival along with my colleagues in the programming department from JBFC for an exhilarating and exhausting week of film immersion, during which the biggest challenge is to determine which five films to watch in any given day. This year, my [...]
Exploring the Military Side of Police
By JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik Peace Officer, a documentary directed by Scott Christopherson and Brad Barber, arrives at the Burns on Friday, October 2 featuring a Q&A with filmmaker Brad Barber for opening night of Global Watch: Crisis, Culture & Human Rights, with a reception afterwards. Peace Officer is a documentary about the militarization [...]
Driving Lessons Through Life
By JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik Learning To Drive, directed by Isabel Coixet (Elegy), arrives at the Burns on Friday, October 2. The movie follows Wendy (Patricia Clarkson) and Darwan (Ben Kingsley), two very different New York City residents whose stories overlap in a very significant way. Wendy is a rich Manhattanite book critic who owns [...]
Home Movie Celebration
By JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik On Saturday, October 17, from noon to 4:00 pm, we are celebrating Westchester’s second annual Home Movie Day at the Theater’s Jane Peck Gallery. We’re the only place in Westchester where you can participate in Home Movie Day, which is free and open to the public, and the event will feature [...]
Home Movie Celebration
This is a post by JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik On Saturday, October 17, from noon to 4:00 pm, we are celebrating Westchester’s second annual Home Movie Day at the Theater’s Jane Peck Gallery. We’re the only place in Westchester where you can participate in Home Movie Day, which is free and open to the public, and [...]
Not Your Typical Grandmother
By JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik Lily Tomlin stars in Grandma, directed by Paul Weitz (American Pie, Admission), which arrives at the Burns September 4. Lily Tomlin is Elle Reid, a 75 year-old former poet, who has just lost the love of her life, Violet. A poet, feminist, grouchy old woman, and a cursing grandma, [...]
Not Your Typical Grandmother
This is a post by JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik Lily Tomlin stars in Grandma, directed by Paul Weitz (American Pie, Admission), which arrives at the Burns September 4. Lily Tomlin is Elle Reid, a 75 year-old former poet, who has just lost the love of her life, Violet. A poet, feminist, grouchy old woman, [...]
Infinite Quest (For Answers)
This is a post by JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik The End of the Tour, opening August 14 at the Burns, is about the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) and the acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel), writer of the famous novel, Infinite Jest. Though the film revolves around a 1996 interview [...]
Radio Heads
This is a post by JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik A very special part of the JBFC’s Sounds of Summer series screens August 18 with the film, I Am What I Play. From first-time director Roger King, it tells the story of the radio format in its heyday and four very important DJ’s from four [...]
