Jacob Burns Film Center: Wiseman's America— The Store
2026-04-15 19:00, 2026-04-17 14:00 (America/New_York) | Jacob Burns Film Center
Jacob Burns Film Center: Wiseman’s America— The Store
The Store is a film about the main Neiman-Marcus store and corporate headquarters in Dallas. The sequences in the film include the selection, presentation, marketing, pricing, advertising and selling of a vast array of consumer products including designer clothes and furs, jewelry, perfumes, shoes, electronic products, sportswear, china and porcelain and many other goods.
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America— Aspen
2026-04-17 19:00, 2026-04-19 14:00 | Jacob Burns Film Center
JBFC: Frederick Wiseman’s America— Aspen
Aspen is a film about a town famous in the 19th century for silver mining and now known for its scenic splendor, mountains, skiing, hiking, music, intellectual activity and fashionable people. The film documents the daily life and activities of the people who live, work, visit, and play in Aspen in the winter.
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America— Public Housing
2026-04-21 18:15, 2026-04-25 13:00 | Jacob Burns Film Center
JBFC: Frederick Wiseman’s America— Public Housing
Public Housing documents daily life at the Ida B. Wells public housing development in Chicago. The film illustrates some of the experiences of people living in conditions of extreme poverty. Events shown include the work of the tenants councils, street life, the role of police, job training programs, drug education, teenage mothers, dysfunctional families, elderly residents, nursery school, and after school teenage programs, along with the activities of the city, state, and federal governments in maintaining and changing public housing.
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America— Domestic Violence
2026-04-23 16:00, 2026-04-26 13:00 | Jacob Burns Film Center
JBFC: Frederick Wiseman’s America— Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence shows the police in Tampa, Florida as they respond to domestic violence calls, in addition to the work of The Spring, the principal shelter in Tampa for women and children. Sequences with the police include police response, intervention, and attempted resolution of domestic violence calls. Sequences at the shelter include intake interviews, individual counseling sessions, anger management training, group therapy, conversations among clients and between clients and staff, and staff meetings, along with school activities, therapy, and counseling for children at the shelter.
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America: Belfast Maine
2026-04-24 13:00, 2026-04-24 18:00 | Jacob Burns Film Center
JBFC: Frederick Wiseman’s America: Belfast Maine
Belfast, Maine is a film about ordinary experience in a beautiful old New England port city. It is a portrait of daily life with particular emphasis on the work and the cultural life of the community. Among the activities shown in the film are the work of lobstermen, tug-boat operators, factory workers, shop owners, city counselors, doctors, judges, policemen, teachers, social workers, nurses and ministers. Cultural activities include choir rehearsal, dance class, music lessons and theatre production.
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America— In Jackson Heights
2026-04-28 18:30, 2026-05-02 13:15 | 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 this community: from their businesses, community centers, and religious spaces, to their political, cultural and, social lives. The film also explores the conflict some residents of Jackson Heights feel between maintaining ties to the traditions of their countries of origin and the obligation they feel to learn and adapt to “American” ways and values.
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America— Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
2026-04-30 18:30, 2026-05-01 13:00 | Jacob Burns Film Center
JBFC: Frederick Wiseman’s America— Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library goes behind the scenes of one of the greatest knowledge institutions in the world and reveals it as a welcoming place of cultural exchange and learning. With 92 locations throughout Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island, the library is committed to being a resource for all the inhabitants of this multifaceted and cosmopolitan city. The New York Public Library exemplifies the deeply rooted American belief in the individual’s right to know and be informed.
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JBFC: Frederick Wiseman's America: Monrovia, Indiana
2026-05-01 17:00, 2026-05-03 14:00 | 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 gives a complex and nuanced view of daily life in Monrovia and provides some understanding of a way of life whose influence and force have not always been recognized or understood in the big cities on the east and west coasts of America.
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Jacob Burns Film Center: Spielberg's Sci-Fi: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
2026-05-23 11:00, 2026-05-24 11:00, 2026-05-25 19:00, 2026-06-14 11:00 | 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 in a suburban California town and an extra-terrestrial who he helps return to his home planet.
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Jacob Burns Film Center: Spielberg's Sc-Fi: War of the Worlds
2026-05-30 19:00, 2026-05-31 14:00 | 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 thriller that reveals the extraordinary battle for the future of humankind through the eyes of one American family fighting to survive a catastrophic alien attack on Earth.
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Jacob Burns Film Center: Spielberg's Sc-Fi: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
2026-05-31 11:00, 2026-06-20 19:00, 2026-06-21 14:00 | 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 director Truffaut (The 400 Blows), Spielberg’s Close Encounters (first bite at the extraterrestrial world before E.T.) quickly established itself as one of the most popular films of all-time upon its release in late 1977.
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Jacob Burns Film Center: Spielberg's Sci-Fi: Ready Player One
2026-06-06 19:00 | Jacob Burns Film Center
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 OASIS was created by James Halliday (Mark Rylance), who left his immense fortune and total control of the OASIS to the winner of a contest he designed to find a worthy heir. When Wade conquers the first challenge of the reality-bending treasure hunt, he is hurled into a fantastical universe of discovery and danger to save the OASIS.
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Jacob Burns Film Center: Spielberg's Sc-Fi: A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2026-06-07 11:00 | Jacob Burns Film Center
Jacob Burns Film Center: Spielberg’s Sc-Fi: A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Originally developed by Stanley Kubrick before Steven Spielberg took over as director following Kubrick’s passing, A.I. Artificial Intelligence is the story of David (Haley Joel Osment), the first mecha (a futuristic term for a mechanized human being) designed with the ability to love.
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Jacob Burns Film Center: Spielberg's Sci-Fi: Ready Player One
2026-06-07 14:00

Bedford Playhouse: Minions & Monsters
2026-07-01 13:30 - 18:30 | Bedford Playhouse
Bedford Playhouse: Minions & Monsters
More than ten years after their creation, the Minions have become the most iconic animated characters of their generation.
Minions & Monsters isthe rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed monsters onto the world and then banded together to try and save the planet from the mayhem they had just created.
Minions & Monsters runs three screenings a day from Wednesday, July 1 through Thursday, July 9.
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Bedford Playhouse: Minions & Monsters
2026-07-02 13:30 - 18:30 | The Bedford Playhouse, 633 Old Post Rd., Bedford Village, NY, 10506, United States
