Jacob Burns Film Preservation Festival: Restored & Rediscovered
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Restored & Rediscovered: A Film Preservation Festival
JBFC ‘s Restored & Rediscovered celebrates the work of preservationists who have protected films that might otherwise have been lost. Over ten days Pleasantville’s iconic art house theatre will screen films from across five continents from the silent era to the 2000’s. It’s breadth of programming features the pre-talkie classic Lady Windermere’s Fan, Michael Powell’s rediscovered gem Peeping Tom, Orson Welles’ oft-celebrated The Third Man and rarely seen finds such as Harlem on the Prairie. Restored & Rediscovered runs from May 13 to May 23. Here are some highlights:
Jacob Burns Film Preservation Festival: Household Saints
Jacob Burns Film CenterJBFC Film Preservation Festival: Household Saints Nancy Savoca’s 1990’s chronicle of a spirited Italian-American New York family perfectly balances humor, tragedy, and pathos. Vincent D’Onofrio’s Joseph Santangelo is a butcher with a wicked sense of humor who “wins” his wife […]
Jacob Burns Film Preservation Festival: Bushman
Jacob Burns Film CenterJBFC Film Preservation Festival: Bushman In 1968, Peace Corps veteran David Schickele enlisted his friend Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam to star in a light-hearted comedy about the adventures of a young Nigerian intellectual in San Francisco. Using a docu-fictional style, […]
Jacob Burns Film Preservation Festival: Lady Windermere’s Fan
Jacob Burns Film CenterJBFC Film Preservation Festival: Lady Windermere’s Fan/ The Adventurer Celebrating the film restoration work of the Museum of Modern Art, JBFC presents two of their restorations, Charlie Chaplin’s The Adventurer and Ernst Lubitsch’s Lady Windermere’s Fan. The screenings will be […]
Jacob Burns Film Preservation Series: The Unknown/Pinto Ben
Jacob Burns Film CenterJBFC Film Preservation Series: The Unknown/Pinto Ben JBFC presents two preservations from the George Eastman Museum beginning with Pinto Ben, the 1915 silent film western short written, directed by and starring William S. Hart. Then Lon Chaney stars as the […]
Jacob Burns Preservation Film Series: The Runner
Jacob Burns Film CenterJBFC Preservation Film Series: The Runner Childhood takes on mythic dimensions in one of the defining works of postrevolutionary Iranian cinema. Inspired by director Amir Naderi’s own boyhood, The Runner is lit from within by Madjid Niroumand’s electrifying performance as a young […]
Jacob Burns Film Preservation Series: Mahjong
Jacob Burns Film CenterJacob Burns Film Preservation Series: Mahjong Edward Yang’s sprawling tragicomedy depicts four immature toughs in a run-in with Taipei mobsters in several intertwined tales of greed, violence, and shattered principles. Tickets
Jacob Burns Film Preservation Sereies: Rare Blue Apes of Cannibal Isle
Jacob Burns Film CenterJBFC Film Preservation Sereies: Rare Blue Apes of Cannibal Isle Shot in Malaysia by veteran sexploitation filmmaker Donn Greer (101 Acts of Love), The Rare Blue Apes of Cannibal Isle is a singularly bizarre “kid’s film” that’s ready to inspire […]
Jacob Burns Film Preservation Series: Hugo
Jacob Burns Film CenterJacob Burns Film Preservation Series: Hugo Hugo tells the story of an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. With the help of an eccentric girl, he searches for the answer to a mystery […]
Jacob Burns Film Preservation Series: Peeping Tom
Jacob Burns Film CenterJacob Burns Film Preservation Series: Peeping Tom The bodies pile up as sensitive film studio focus puller Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) moonlights as a private photographer of scantily-clad women, while obsessively working on his own “documentary” of the women’s dying […]
Jacob Burns Film Preservation Festival: The Third Man
Jacob Burns Film CenterJacob Burns Film Preservatoin Festival: The Third Man Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives in a bombed-out, post-war Vienna at the invitation of his childhood friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles) only to find him dead. Martins […]
Jacob Burns Film Preservation Series: Tell Me a Riddle/The Stronger
Jacob Burns Film CenterJacob Burns Film Preservation Series: Tell Me a Riddle/The Stronger JBFC screens two of the earliest films directed by a woman, both from Academy Award-winning actress Lee Grant. Beginning with The Stronger, a short film adaptation of August Strindberg’s play […]
Jacob Burns Film Preservation Series: Harlem on the Prairie
Jacob Burns Film CenterJacob Burns Film Preservation Series: Harlem on the Prairie Singer Herbert Jeffrey makes his cinematic debut in this long-unavailable film as the strapping young cowpoke who comes to the rescue of a traveling medicine show battling outlaws for buried treasure. […]
Jacob Burns Film Preservatoin Series: Death of a Bureaucrat
Jacob Burns Film CenterJacob Burns Film Preservatoin Series: Death of a Bureaucrat Tomás Gutiérrez Alea was the most internationally successful director from post-revolutionary Cuba. In one of his funniest films, Gutiérrez Alea satirizes the byzantine nature of bureaucracy, and thus remains a favorite […]
Jacob Burns Film Preservation Series: Lumumba
Jacob Burns Film CenterJacob Burns Film Preservation Series: Lumumba Investigating revolutionary Patrice Lumumba’s brief tenure as the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as the machinations behind his shocking assassination, legendary Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck discovers critical flashpoints […]
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