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Summer @ the Lab: Week One!
This is a post by Aaron Mace, JBFC Camp Director / Program and Curriculum Developer We got off to a great start on Monday! 40 kids walked through our doors to meet their groups and the counselors that they are going to spend the next three weeks with. We played games, watched films, ran around, began [...]
Introducing Champ Ensminger: Summer 2015 Emerging Artist Fellow
This is a post by Champ Ensminger, Summer 2015 JBFC Emerging Artist Fellow [vimeo width=”600″ height=”365″ video_id=”100431797″] When I left New York last year for my birthplace of Chiang Mai, Thailand, I thought I had stepped away from my career and artistic practice in film for a while to enjoy some time traveling the other side [...]
Deadly SINema
This is a post by JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik The Burns is proud to present “Deadly SINema,” a film series running from June 23 through June 29. The series explores the Seven Deadly Sins through seven different films, rediscovering lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride on the big screen. We are working [...]
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
This is a post by JBFC Programmer Andrew Jupin In a post-Hunger Games film world, it seems like studios are churning out movies based on Young Adult novels left and right. To give you an example, in the last two years we’ve seen or will see the release of several YA adaptations including The Hunger [...]
God Only Knows
This is a post by JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik Love & Mercy, the Beach Boys biopic, directed by Bill Pohlad, opens at the Burns on June 5. About The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, it looks at him from two different decades in two parallel storylines. The first, the younger Wilson’s story, takes place in [...]
24 Hours to Make a Movie
This is a post by JBFC Communications Manager, Karolina Manko Today, we ready our filmmaking troops to take on one of the hardest, toughest, and most brutal of JBFC challenges. No, I’m not talking about buying a Friday-night movie ticket to a new release. I’m talking about making a movie in twenty-four hours! This evening [...]
Something to Think About
This is a post by JBFC Volunteer Dotty Battel Relax and breathe deeply, “The Meditative Life, a program of inspiring films, is being shown at 7:30 for six consecutive evenings, June 3-8. The series includes a selection of new docs about Eastern spirituality and the charismatic figures that have brought it to the Western world. It [...]
A Mother's Love
This is a post by JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik In the Name of My Daughter, a French thriller directed by André Téchiné, arrives at the Burns May 22. Based on a true story, it revolves around the fortunes of a casino, the inheritance that comes with it, the Mafia’s involvement, and the disappearance of [...]
{Cinemania Student Critics} Antarctica in 3D!
Last week, our Cinemania Student Critics, Andrew and Caleb, went to a screening of Jon Bowermaster’s Antarctica 3D. Read what they had to say about the film and check out a photo from the event, below! Antarctica 3D, by Andrew Torpie Jon Bowermaster’s Antarctica 3D: On the Edge is a documentary film that explores the vastness and importance [...]
The Future of Books
This is a post by JBFC Marketing Intern Stacy Zakalik On Tuesday, May 26, the Jacob Burns Film Center examines the future of books in the 21st century with a screening of Fahrenheit 451 and discussion with special guests Paul Holdengräber, director of the acclaimed Live at the New York Public Library, and Jonathan Demme, Oscar-winning [...]
