• JBFC: Frederick Wiseman’s America: Monrovia, Indiana

    Jacob Burns Film Center

    JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America: Monrovia, Indiana Monrovia, Indiana explores a small, rural town in the American midwest and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity, and authenticity are formed, experienced, and lived, along with conflicting stereotypes. The film […]

  • JBFC: Frederick Wiseman’s America— In Jackson Heights

    Jacob Burns Film Center

    JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America— In Jackson Heights Set in the neighborhood of Jackson Heights in Queens, New York—one of the most racially and ethically diverse communities in the United States—In Jackson Heights centers on the daily lives of the people in […]

  • JBFC: Frederick Wiseman’s America: Monrovia, Indiana

    Jacob Burns Film Center

    JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America: Monrovia, Indiana Monrovia, Indiana explores a small, rural town in the American midwest and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity, and authenticity are formed, experienced, and lived, along with conflicting stereotypes. The film […]

  • Jacob Burns Film Center: Spielberg’s Sci-Fi: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    Jacob Burns Film Center

    Jacob Burns Film Center: Spielberg's Sci-Fi: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning four (including one for John Williams’ unforgettable score) E.T. the Extraterrestrial is Steven Spielberg's most beloved film that follows the relationship between a young boy […]

  • Jacob Burns Film Center: Spielberg’s Sci-Fi: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    Jacob Burns Film Center

    Jacob Burns Film Center: Spielberg's Sci-Fi: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning four (including one for John Williams’ unforgettable score) E.T. the Extraterrestrial is Steven Spielberg's most beloved film that follows the relationship between a young boy […]

  • Jacob Burns Film Center: Spielberg’s Sci-Fi: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    Jacob Burns Film Center

    Jacob Burns Film Center: Spielberg's Sci-Fi: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning four (including one for John Williams’ unforgettable score) E.T. the Extraterrestrial is Steven Spielberg's most beloved film that follows the relationship between a young boy […]

  • Jacob Burns Film Center: Spielberg’s Sc-Fi: War of the Worlds

    Jacob Burns Film Center

    Jacob Burns Film Center: Spielberg's Sc-Fi: War of the Worlds A contemporary retelling of H.G. Wells’ seminal classic starring Tom Cruise in his second collaboration with Steven Spielberg, this reimagining of War of the Worlds is a dramatic science fiction […]

  • Jacob Burns Film Center: Spielberg’s Sc-Fi: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    Jacob Burns Film Center

    Jacob Burns Film Center: Spielberg's Sc-Fi: Close Encounters of the Third Kind With revolutionary special visual effects by Douglas Trumbull (2001: A Space Odyssey), John Williams’ unforgettable score, and memorable performances by Dreyfuss, Garr, Dillon, Bob Balaban, and legendary film […]

  • Jacob Burns Film Center: Spielberg’s Sc-Fi: War of the Worlds

    Jacob Burns Film Center

    Jacob Burns Film Center: Spielberg's Sc-Fi: War of the Worlds A contemporary retelling of H.G. Wells’ seminal classic starring Tom Cruise in his second collaboration with Steven Spielberg, this reimagining of War of the Worlds is a dramatic science fiction […]

  • Jacob Burns Film Center: Spielberg’s Sci-Fi: Ready Player One

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    Jacob Burns Film Center: Spielberg's Sci-Fi: Ready Player One Set in 2045, the world is a harsh place, and the only time Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) feels alive is when he escapes to the OASIS, an immersive virtual universe. The […]