Jacob 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 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 Preservation 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 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 […]
JBFC 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 […]
JBFC 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 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 […]
Jacob 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 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: 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 Pride Series: But I'm a Cheerleader Megan (Natasha Lyonne) considers herself a typical American girl. She excels in school and cheerleading, and she has a handsome football-playing boyfriend, even though she isn’t that crazy about him. So she’s […]
Jacob Burns Pride: Beautiful Thing Beautiful Thing is the hilarious and heartfelt story of Jamie, a shy teenager, and his neighbor Ste, who has a rough time at home. With a witty screenplay from British playwright Jonathan Harvey, and an […]
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