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{Cinemania Student Critic}The Best of Looney Tunes
This is a post by JBFC Cinemania Student Critic Caleb Feinstein This collection of classic cartoons is definitely fun for any age despite coming from a kids show. The Best of Looney Toons is full of well-known (One Froggy Evening and Duck Dodgers) and lesser-known episodes (Back Alley Oproar) to offer a variety of entertaining [...]
A Boyhood Obsession
This is a post by JBFC Theater Staff Member Jeffrey Crowley Celebrating the film’s recent awards success, The Jacob Burns Film Center brought Richard Linklater‘s masterpiece Boyhood back to Pleasantville for daily screenings these past two weeks, and I promise you, you could not have found anyone in the tri-state area happier than me. Honestly, [...]
Happy Valentine's Day
Happy Valentine’s Day from the JBFC! To celebrate, enjoy Fish in Love, a short, stop-motion animated video created by fourth graders in our Minds in Motion program. [youtube width=”600″ height=”365″ video_id=”iiv3_LC2ens”]
{Cinemania Student Critics} Favorite Snow Day Movie
We asked Cinemania Student Critic Andrew Torpie to share with us his favorite movie to watch on a snow day and tell us why he loves it so much. The film he chose is one that a lot of people will agree is a pop culture classic. See what Andrew has to say about Mean Girls, below: [...]
Is it Possible to Pick a Winner?
This is a post by Abby Popper, JBFC Public Relations I don’t know how they do it – the Oscar judges that is! Watching the Live Action Shorts that the Burns is showing over the next two weeks, you run the gamut of emotions (happy, sad, teary, laughing, thoughtful…you can add your own feelings after viewing) [...]
Image, Sound, and Story in the Classroom
This is a post by Brady Shoemaker, JBFC Director of Curriculum “Watch your framing,†I said as I looked over the student’s shoulder at the viewfinder of her camera. “Oh, right; rule of thirds,†she said as she adjusted her shot. It was a tough shot to get right–a reflection in a car’s side mirror–but [...]
BAMkids Making Animated Movies
This is a post by JBFC Faculty Member Darrel Swann This past Saturday, the JBFC was invited to Brooklyn to participate in BAM’s BAMkids Film Festival 2015. The JBFC had five animation stations set up for kids of all ages and visitors as young as 4 years old got a taste of paper animation, live-action stop motion, [...]
No Need to Fly “Across the Pond†to See London’s National Gallery
This is a post by Abby Popper, JBFC Public Relations You can sit, not stand in line, avoid crowds, AND have the best tour ever both in front of and behind the scenes of London’s National Gallery in this richly detailed film by the great documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman (Crazy Horse, Titicut Follies, Boxing Gym). [...]
Campy, Cheezy….and Highly Entertaining!
This is a post by JBFC Volunteer Dotty Battel As TimeOut put it, The Oscar is a “tacky Tinseltown soaper…featuring numerous stellar walk-ons and dreadful dialogue,†and that about sums up Jonathan Demme’s latest selection for his “Rarely Seen Cinema“ series.  “It never ceases to amaze me how deeply fun and gratifying this inarguably “bad†movie can [...]
{Cinemania Student Critics} Maidentrip
This is a post by JBFC Cinemania Student Critic Caleb Feinstein Imagine leaving home to make a 27,000-mile, two year long journey around the world on a small boat by yourself. I know I couldn’t, but 14 year old Laura Dekker could. Maidentrip, directed by Jillian Schlesinger, is the adventurous story of a Dutch girl [...]
