Sounds of Summer
July 2–Sep. 6, 2026
Sounds of Summer returns, celebrating music in all its forms — the iconic and the intimate, the legendary and the live.
We open with the greatest band in metal falling apart in real time in Joe Berlinger’s Metallica: Some Kind of Monster. Other highlights include a fresh program of rare archival footage presented by the Bob Dylan Center; and a new installment in Scott Freiman’s acclaimed series, Deconstructing The Music, with a deep dive on the sixty-year-old Beatles album Revolver.
From there, we’ll venture to a Baptist Church in California for Aretha Franklin in Amazing Grace, an Arkansas cotton farm with Johnny Cash in Walk the Line, Nick Cave at the Sydney Opera House in 20,000 Days on Earth, Woody Guthrie riding freight trains across Depression-era America in Bound for Glory, and a European Tour like no other with an intimate look at a fearless feminist and LGBTQ+ icon in Teaches of Peaches. Sounds of Summer provides everyone with a soundtrack to listen to this summer.
The excitement continues off screen: with an evening of live music with the incomparable John Pizzarelli (tickets on sale soon), and free live music every Thursday evening in the Take 3 Wine Bar and Café from July 2 through Sept. 6.
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
July 2, 2026
Q&A with director Joe Berlinger followed by a reception in Take 3
Presented on director Joe Berlinger’s personal 35mm print. After bassist Jason Newsted quits the band, the three remaining members of…
Bound for Glory
July 5–8, 2026
Presented on 35mm
In director Hal Ashby’s (Harold and Maude) stunning portrait of folk singer Woody Guthrie, David Carradine gives a career-best performance…
Deconstructing The Music LIVE: The Beatles' Revolver
July 11, 2026
In Deconstructing The Music LIVE: The Beatles’ Revolver, Scott Freiman, host of the Public Television series Deconstructing the Beatles, celebrates…
Amazing Grace
July 16–17, 2026
Crafted from never-before-seen footage originally shot in 1972, Amazing Grace documents the recording of Aretha Franklin’s seminal and acclaimed gospel…
20,000 Days On Earth
July 21–23, 2026
20,000 Days On Earth is an inventive, lyrical ode to creativity and an intimate examination of the artistic process of…
Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It
July 30–31, 2026
Billy Preston was 5 years old when he sang backing vocals for gospel legend Mahalia Jackson and, across the course…
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Aug. 2–6, 2026
A hilarious and cutting satire of the ever-ubiquitous musician biopic, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story follows legendary rocker Dewey…
Walk the Line
Aug. 2–6, 2026
Walk the Line, directed by Academy Award nominee James Mangold (A Complete Unknown), tells the life story of country music…
Flipside
Aug. 4–5, 2026
When filmmaker Chris Wilcha revisits the record store he worked at as a teenager in New Jersey, he finds the…
Köln 75
Aug. 13, 2026
Keith Jarrett’s legendary performance in January 1975 nearly didn’t happen. Based on a true story, Köln 75 follows how the…
Teaches of Peaches
Aug. 20, 2026
Filmed during “The Teaches of Peaches Anniversary Tour” in 2022, this documentary seamlessly weaves together exclusive archival gems with dynamic…
Les Blank Shorts: The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins + A Well Spent Life
Aug. 27–29, 2026
A pair of short cinematic portraits of iconic blues musicians Lightnin’ Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb from legendary American documentarian Les…
Inside Llewyn Davis
Sep. 3–6, 2026
Inspired by the life and work of folk singer Dave Van Ronk, Inside Llewyn Davis follows a week in the…
Stepping into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center
Sep. 3, 2026
Q&A with Bob Dylan Center director Steven Jenkins
Returning to the Jacob Burns Film Center for a fourth consecutive year, Bob Dylan Center Director Steven Jenkins will share…
Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune
Aug. 28–31, 2025
Q&A with director Kenneth Bowser, moderated by JBFC Board President Janet Maslin on August 28
From civil rights to the anti-war movement to the struggles of workers, folksinger Phil Ochs wrote topical songs that engaged…
The Last Waltz
Aug. 25–31, 2025
In 1976, The Band decided to throw a party when it was time to call it quits. Their farewell concert…
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
Aug. 21–24, 2025
Wild Combination is director Matt Wolf’s visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur…
DIG! XX
Aug. 18–24, 2025
20 years ago, Sundance was rocked by DIG!, Ondi Timoner’s genre-topping rockumentary about two Gen-X bands and their journey to…
Elvis: That's the Way It Is
Aug. 14–17, 2025
Introduction with film critic Sheila O’Malley on 8/14
On July 31, 1969, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Elvis Presley staged a triumphant return to the concert stage from which…
Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock ’n’ Roll!
Aug. 7–10, 2025
The unforgettable life and music of the pioneering legend are celebrated in Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll capturing…
Stop Making Sense
Aug. 4–10, 2025
Newly restored in 4K to coincide with its 40th anniversary, the 1984 film was directed by renowned filmmaker Jonathan Demme…
Black Orpheus
Aug. 3, 2025
Screening with live bossa nova performance
Join us for a day full of jazz, hosted by John Pizzarelli. Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language…
Jazz on a Summer's Day
Aug. 3, 2025
Screening with live performance by the John Pizzarelli Trio and Jessica Molaskey
This event is SOLD OUT. There will be a standby line starting one hour before showtime in person at the box…
Immediate Family
July 24–27, 2025
Immediate Family tracks the rise and collaborations of a group of legendary studio musicians through the 1970s and onward, chronicling…
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains
July 19–21, 2025
This rarely screened cult favorite from Grammy winner Lou Adler (Rocky Horror Picture Show) is a sharp satire of punk,…
Rude Boy
July 17–20, 2025
Jack Hazan and David Mingay’s Rude Boy follows on the heels of A Bigger Splash, their intimate observation of painter…
Buena Vista Social Club
July 14–27, 2025
Traveling with a small film crew, Wim Wenders accompanied his old friend Ry Cooder—who did the fantastic score for Paris,…
Deconstructing Rubber Soul
July 13, 2025
Live presentation with “Beatleologist” Scott Freiman
In October 1965, the Beatles were faced with an impossible task—produce a new album of original music for a Christmas…
The Doors: The Final Cut
July 10–13, 2025
Capturing the hedonistic chaos of the late ’60s, The Doors: The Final Cut follows the life and times of the…
Ron Delsener Presents
July 3–6, 2025
Q&A with legendary club promoter Ron Delsener and executive producer Jon Kamen on July 3
In a career spanning sixty years, concert promoter and impresario Ron Delsener was the name behind virtually every major contemporary…
An Evening with the Bob Dylan Center
Aug. 29, 2024
Screening followed by a conversation with Steven Jenkins, Director of the Bob Dylan Center
All screening attendees are eligible to enter a free raffle for two complimentary round-trip plane tickets to Tulsa—redeemable within one…
Space is the Place
Aug. 15, 2024
Avant-jazz mystic Sun Ra brought his pioneering Afrofuturist vision to the screen with this film version of his concept album.…
Eno
Aug. 13, 2024
Introduction by WFUV DJ Eric Holland
Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno—known for producing David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, among many others; pioneering the genre of…
One Hand Don't Clap
Aug. 8, 2024
One Hand Don’t Clap captures the vibrant story of calypso and the emergence of soca, through the eyes of two…
A Hard Day's Night
Aug. 7, 2024
Introduction by Scott Freiman at 7:00
Meet the Beatles! Just one month after they exploded onto the U.S. scene with their Ed Sullivan Show appearance, John, Paul, George,…
Deconstructing The Dark Side of the Moon
Aug. 1, 2024
Live Presentation
Scott Freiman has been entertaining audiences at the Jacob Burns with his Deconstructing the Beatles presentations for nearly fifteen years.…
The House of Tom—Mundo, Monde, Mondo
July 27, 2024
Screening with live performance by a bossa nova group
Join us for a day full of jazz, hosted by John Pizzarelli. This program is presented in memory of Maria Traversa,…
Morning Jam, featuring the EarRegulars
July 27, 2024
Live performance featuring the EarRegulars
Join us for a day full of jazz, hosted by John Pizzarelli. This program is presented in memory of Maria…
Artie Shaw: Time is All You've Got
July 24, 2024
Pre-Recorded Q&A with director Brigitte Berman after the 7:00 screening
Anchored by an incisive interview with its then 72-year-old subject, Artie Shaw: Time is All You’ve Got looks back on the five-decade…
Hung Up on a Dream: The Zombies Documentary
July 18, 2024
Introduction by WFUV DJ Darren DeVivo
Special preview screening! British Invasion icons The Zombies reflect on paving 60 years and counting of their musical path from…
Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill
July 17, 2024
The never-before-told story of folk-rock icon Judee Sill, who in just two years went from living in a car to…
Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple
July 11, 2024
Introduction by director Bill Teck
Stevie Van Zandt takes center stage in this feature documentary, tracing Van Zandt’s career as a musician, producer, activist, actor,…
This series is sponsored by:
The Lucille & Paul Maslin Foundation
Janet Maslin
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