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COUP DE CHANCE
2023 /PG-13 / 93 min / Comedy, Crime, Drama
WOODY ALLEN’S LATEST FILM!
Fanny and Jean have everything of the ideal couple: fulfilled in their professional life, they live in a magnificent apartment in the beautiful districts of Paris and seem to be in love as on the first day. But when Fanny crosses, by chance, Alain, a former high school friend, she is immediately capsized. They see each other again very quickly and get closer and closer.
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen (screenplay)
Producers: Erika Aronson | Letty Aronson
Cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro
Editor: Alisa Lepselter
Casting Directors: Patricia DiCerto | Sandie Galan Perez
Production Designer: Véronique Melery
COUP DE CHANCE
2023 /PG-13 / 93 min / Comedy, Crime, Drama
WOODY ALLEN’S LATEST FILM!
Fanny and Jean have everything of the ideal couple: fulfilled in their professional life, they live in a magnificent apartment in the beautiful districts of Paris and seem to be in love as on the first day. But when Fanny crosses, by chance, Alain, a former high school friend, she is immediately capsized. They see each other again very quickly and get closer and closer.
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen (screenplay)
Producers: Erika Aronson | Letty Aronson
Cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro
Editor: Alisa Lepselter
Casting Directors: Patricia DiCerto | Sandie Galan Perez
Production Designer: Véronique Melery
COUP DE CHANCE
2023 /PG-13 / 93 min / Comedy, Crime, Drama
WOODY ALLEN’S LATEST FILM!
Fanny and Jean have everything of the ideal couple: fulfilled in their professional life, they live in a magnificent apartment in the beautiful districts of Paris and seem to be in love as on the first day. But when Fanny crosses, by chance, Alain, a former high school friend, she is immediately capsized. They see each other again very quickly and get closer and closer.
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen (screenplay)
Producers: Erika Aronson | Letty Aronson
Cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro
Editor: Alisa Lepselter
Casting Directors: Patricia DiCerto | Sandie Galan Perez
Production Designer: Véronique Melery
Hundreds of Beavers
2022 |108 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.
Director: Mike Cheslik
Writers: Mike Cheslik | Ryland Brickson Cole Tews
Producers: Sam Hogerton | Kurt Ravenwood | Matt Sabljak | Ryland Brickson Cole Tews
Composer: Chris Ryan
Cinematographer: Quinn Hester:
Editor: Mike Cheslik
Hundreds of Beavers
2022 |108 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.
Director: Mike Cheslik
Writers: Mike Cheslik | Ryland Brickson Cole Tews
Producers: Sam Hogerton | Kurt Ravenwood | Matt Sabljak | Ryland Brickson Cole Tews
Composer: Chris Ryan
Cinematographer: Quinn Hester:
Editor: Mike Cheslik
FIRST LOOK FILM SERIES
FILM INTRODUCTION BY SCOTT SIEGEL AND Q&A FOLLOWING THE FILM.
See today’s cutting edge movies before they open and take part in Q&A sessions with the exciting personalities associated with those films (Actors, Directors, Writers or Producers). Get the inside stories the public doesn’t yet know about these movies. Each week’s surprise selection is guaranteed to be a film to remember.
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The Night of the Hunter
1955 | Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
THRILLER WEEKEND!
A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
Director: Charles Laughton
Writers: Davis Grubb (from the novel by) | James Agee (screenplay by)
Producer: Paul Gregory
Composer: Walter Schumann
Cinematographer: Stanley Cortez (photography by)
Editor: Robert Golden
Odd Man Out
1947 | Not Rated |116 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
THRILLER WEEKEND!
A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.
Director: Carol Reed
Writers/Screenplay: F.L. Green, R.C. Sherriff
Producer: Carol Reed
Composer: William Alwyn
Cinematographer: Robert Krasker
Editor: Fergus McDonell
The Third Man
1949 | Not Rated |104 min |Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
THRILLER WEEKEND!
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
Director: Carol Reed
Writer/Screenplay: Graham Greene
Producer: Carol Reed
Cinematographer: Robert Krasker
Editor: Oswald Hafenrichter
Ford v Ferrari
2019 | PG-13 |152 min | Action, Biography, Drama
American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference and the laws of physics to build a revolutionary race car for Ford in order to defeat Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966.
Director: James Mangold
Writers: Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, Jason Keller
Producers: Peter Chernin, James Mangold, Jenno Topping
Composers: Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders
Cinematographer: Phedon Papamichael
Editors: Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker, Dirk Westervelt
Casting Director: Ronna Kress
Production Designer: François Audouy
Manhattan
1979 | Rated R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
WEDNESDAYS WITH WOODY!
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Director: Woody Allen
Writers: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
Producer: Charles H. Joffe
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis
Editor: Susan E. Morse
Casting Director: Juliet Taylor
Production Designer: Mel Bourne
Theatrical Tapestry
North Jersey Theatre Alliance presents THEATRICAL TAPESTRY live stage show.
Stardust Memories
1980 | PG | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
WEDNESDAYS WITH WOODY!
While attending a retrospective of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
PRESENTED IN 35MM
Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen
Producer: Robert Greenhut
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis
Editor: Susan E. Morse
Casting Director: Juliet Taylor
Production Designer: Mel Bourne
Suspicion
1941 | Not Rated |99 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
HITCHCOCK IN THE 1940s!
A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Samson Raphaelson, Joan Harrison, Alma Reville, Anthony Berkeley
Composer: Franz Waxman
Cinematographer: Harry Stradling Sr.
Editor: William Hamilton
Shadow of a Doubt
1943 |Not Rated |108 min | Film-Noir, Thriller
HITCHCOCK IN THE 1940s!
A teenage girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, Alma Reville, Gordon McDonell
Producer: Jack H. Skirball
Composer: Dimitri Tiomkin
Cinematographer: Joseph A. Valentine
Editor: Milton Carruth
Notorious
1946 | Not Rated |102 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
HITCHCOCK IN THE 1940s!
The daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Ben Hecht
Composer: Roy Webb
Cinematographer: Ted Tetzlaff
Editor: Theron Warth
Foreign Correspondent
1940 | Not Rated |120 min | Action, Romance, Thriller
HITCHCOCK IN THE 1940s!
On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison, James Hilton, Robert Benchley
Producer: Composer: Alfred Newman
Cinematographer: Rudolph Maté
Editor: Dorothy Spencer
FIRST LOOK FILM SERIES
FILM INTRODUCTION BY SCOTT SIEGEL AND Q&A FOLLOWING THE FILM.
See today’s cutting edge movies before they open and take part in Q&A sessions with the exciting personalities associated with those films (Actors, Directors, Writers or Producers). Get the inside stories the public doesn’t yet know about these movies. Each week’s surprise selection is guaranteed to be a film to remember.
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Tchaikovsky Ballet Gala
Fort Lee Club for Russian Speaking Community and the Barrymore Film Center present Tchaikovsky Ballet Gala - American Russian Ballet Theater, artistic Director Anastasia Fedorova. Masterpieces of choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov - `Swan Lake`, `Sleeping Beauty`. With participation of Petr Borchenkol from Bolshoi Theater of Belarus.
THOMAS EDISON FILM FESTIVAL | 50th Anniversary of the NJ Young Filmmakers’ Festival Premiere 2024 | FREE!
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A project of the Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium, The 50th Annual NJ Young Filmmakers’ Festival Presents 25 Award-winning Films
NJ Young Filmmakers’ Festival is grateful for generous funding and support from…
New Jersey State Council on the Arts; Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University; The Charles Edison Fund – Edison Innovation Foundation; Lowenstein Sandler, LLC; The NBA; Big Sky Edit; Sonic Union; University of Delaware School of Art & Design; Fairleigh Dickinson University School of the Arts – Filmmaking; Digital Film East Brunswick Magnet School; Don Drelich – Limin’ House; and donations from the Thomas Edison Media Arts Consortium Board of Trustees in honor of the 50th Anniversary of NJYFF.
Jury’s Stellar Awards - College/University
I used to play bass – Jury’s Stellar Award Animation – Princeton University, 1:21 by Tyler Benson
Goofball – Jury’s Stellar Award Documentary – Princeton University, 2:52 by Paige Morton
No Birthday Party – Jury’s Stellar Award Experimental – Princeton University, 3:16 by Magnolia Adelle Wilkinson
Muted – Jury’s Stellar Award Narrative – Brown University, 6:15 by Chris Zou
Jury’s Choice Awards - College/University
Ghost Marriage – Jury’s Choice Award Animation – Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) – 3:00 by Vivian Chung
The Salute – Jury’s Choice Award Narrative – Rowan University – 7:32 by Adam Reim
Jury’s Citation Awards - College/University
Key Lime Pie - Jury’s Citation Award Narrative – Princeton University – 10:00 by Allen Delgado
River Construction – Jury’s Citation Award Animation – Princeton University – 2:33 by Miriam Beams
Spiral – Jury’s Citation Award Animation – Ramapo College of NJ – 2:46 by Mia J. Schutz
The Evil Wizard and the Lizard - Jury’s Citation Award Animation – Princeton University – 1:59 by Austria Merritt
Transformation Matrix - Jury’s Citation Award Animation – Princeton University – 1:38 by Lana Glisic
Director’s Choice Awards – College/University
Have My Heart – Director’s Choice Award Animation – Princeton University – 2:36 by Minh Truong
Theo the Phone Charger – Director’s Choice Award Narrative – Princeton University – 2:41 by Jae-Kyung Sim
Jury’s Stellar Awards – High School
Tellurium vs Gold – Jury’s Stellar Award Animation – East Brunswick Magnet School – 2:37 by Josias Ortiz
Cisneros – Jury’s Stellar Award Documentary – East Brunswick Magnet School – 4:21 by Traysten L. Korpi
Circulo – Jury’s Stellar Award Experimental – East Brunswick Magnet School – 2:04 by Marlee Marte
You’re Gonna Pay for That – Jury’s Stellar Award Narrative – Park Ridge High School – 5:00 by Michael DeMar
Jury’s Choice Awards – High School
Grief – Jury’s Choice Award Animation – Middletown High School South – 4:00 by James Ketley and Alex Miller
Someday is Today – Jury’s Choice Award Experimental - Middletown High School South – 2:47 by Zoey Ness, Morgan Scasny, Gigi Maiorana, and Kate Cashion
The Great Escape – Jury’s Choice Award Narrative - Middletown High School South – 3:30 by Andie Kershner
Jury’s Citation Awards – High School
Solitary – Jury’s Citation Award Experimental - Middletown High School South – 2:42 by Michael Puma and Ethan Castro
Vampire – Jury’s Citation Award Narrative – Park Ridge High School – 4:59 by Caroline Sheridan
Director’s Choice Awards – High School
At Odds – Director’s Choice Award Narrative - The Pingry School – 2:33 by Anthony Truncale
Escape - Director’s Choice Award Narrative – Millburn High School - 4:21 by Aari Desai
What You Don’t Know About Greg The Artistic Puppet - Director’s Choice Award Narrative – Passaic High School - 5:15 by Hasan Garcia and Jessica Ruiz
FREE TO THE PUBLIC
THOMAS EDISON FILM FESTIVAL | 50th Anniversary of the NJ Young Filmmakers’ Festival Premiere 2024 | FREE!
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A project of the Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium, The 50th Annual NJ Young Filmmakers’ Festival Presents 25 Award-winning Films
NJ Young Filmmakers’ Festival is grateful for generous funding and support from…
New Jersey State Council on the Arts; Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University; The Charles Edison Fund – Edison Innovation Foundation; Lowenstein Sandler, LLC; The NBA; Big Sky Edit; Sonic Union; University of Delaware School of Art & Design; Fairleigh Dickinson University School of the Arts – Filmmaking; Digital Film East Brunswick Magnet School; Don Drelich – Limin’ House; and donations from the Thomas Edison Media Arts Consortium Board of Trustees in honor of the 50th Anniversary of NJYFF.
Jury’s Stellar Awards - College/University
I used to play bass – Jury’s Stellar Award Animation – Princeton University, 1:21 by Tyler Benson
Goofball – Jury’s Stellar Award Documentary – Princeton University, 2:52 by Paige Morton
No Birthday Party – Jury’s Stellar Award Experimental – Princeton University, 3:16 by Magnolia Adelle Wilkinson
Muted – Jury’s Stellar Award Narrative – Brown University, 6:15 by Chris Zou
Jury’s Choice Awards - College/University
Ghost Marriage – Jury’s Choice Award Animation – Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) – 3:00 by Vivian Chung
The Salute – Jury’s Choice Award Narrative – Rowan University – 7:32 by Adam Reim
Jury’s Citation Awards - College/University
Key Lime Pie - Jury’s Citation Award Narrative – Princeton University – 10:00 by Allen Delgado
River Construction – Jury’s Citation Award Animation – Princeton University – 2:33 by Miriam Beams
Spiral – Jury’s Citation Award Animation – Ramapo College of NJ – 2:46 by Mia J. Schutz
The Evil Wizard and the Lizard - Jury’s Citation Award Animation – Princeton University – 1:59 by Austria Merritt
Transformation Matrix - Jury’s Citation Award Animation – Princeton University – 1:38 by Lana Glisic
Director’s Choice Awards – College/University
Have My Heart – Director’s Choice Award Animation – Princeton University – 2:36 by Minh Truong
Theo the Phone Charger – Director’s Choice Award Narrative – Princeton University – 2:41 by Jae-Kyung Sim
Jury’s Stellar Awards – High School
Tellurium vs Gold – Jury’s Stellar Award Animation – East Brunswick Magnet School – 2:37 by Josias Ortiz
Cisneros – Jury’s Stellar Award Documentary – East Brunswick Magnet School – 4:21 by Traysten L. Korpi
Circulo – Jury’s Stellar Award Experimental – East Brunswick Magnet School – 2:04 by Marlee Marte
You’re Gonna Pay for That – Jury’s Stellar Award Narrative – Park Ridge High School – 5:00 by Michael DeMar
Jury’s Choice Awards – High School
Grief – Jury’s Choice Award Animation – Middletown High School South – 4:00 by James Ketley and Alex Miller
Someday is Today – Jury’s Choice Award Experimental - Middletown High School South – 2:47 by Zoey Ness, Morgan Scasny, Gigi Maiorana, and Kate Cashion
The Great Escape – Jury’s Choice Award Narrative - Middletown High School South – 3:30 by Andie Kershner
Jury’s Citation Awards – High School
Solitary – Jury’s Citation Award Experimental - Middletown High School South – 2:42 by Michael Puma and Ethan Castro
Vampire – Jury’s Citation Award Narrative – Park Ridge High School – 4:59 by Caroline Sheridan
Director’s Choice Awards – High School
At Odds – Director’s Choice Award Narrative - The Pingry School – 2:33 by Anthony Truncale
Escape - Director’s Choice Award Narrative – Millburn High School - 4:21 by Aari Desai
What You Don’t Know About Greg The Artistic Puppet - Director’s Choice Award Narrative – Passaic High School - 5:15 by Hasan Garcia and Jessica Ruiz
FREE TO THE PUBLIC
1776 (1972)
G | 141 min
A musical retelling of the American Revolution's political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.
Director: Peter H. Hunt
Writers: Peter Stone (book: play) (screenplay), Sherman Edwards (based on a conception of)
Producer: Jack L. Warner
Composer: Sherman Edwards
Cinematographer: Harry Stradling Jr.
Editors: Florence Williamson, William H. Ziegler
Casting Director: Michael Shurtleff
Production Designer: George Jenkins
FIRST LOOK FILM SERIES
FILM INTRODUCTION BY SCOTT SIEGEL AND Q&A FOLLOWING THE FILM.
See today’s cutting edge movies before they open and take part in Q&A sessions with the exciting personalities associated with those films (Actors, Directors, Writers or Producers). Get the inside stories the public doesn’t yet know about these movies. Each week’s surprise selection is guaranteed to be a film to remember.
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The Goldman Case (2023) | JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2024
NR | 115 min | In French with English subtitles
Cédric Kahn’s riveting courtroom drama, a hit at Cannes last year, is set in Paris in 1975, depicting the real case of Jewish activist Pierre Goldman. Sentenced to life imprisonment for armed robberies, one of which resulted in the death of two women, Goldman pleads not guilty to murder. The court proceedings transform Goldman into a hero of the intellectual left. Ever the agitator, the mercurial Goldman throws his own trial into chaos, risking a death sentence. The Goldman Case paints a portrait of a militant revolutionary, but also of a society torn apart by patterns of racism and injustice that are still virulent today.
Director: Cédric Kahn
Writers: Nathalie Hertzberg, Cédric Kahn
Producer: Benjamin Elalouf
Cinematographer: Patrick Ghiringhelli
Editor: Yann Dedet
Casting Director: Antoine Carrard
Production Designer: Guillaume Deviercy
BFC JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL SPONSORED BY EDWIN & DORIS COHEN
SHTTL (2022) | Featuring Guest Speaker Moshe Lobel | JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2024
NR | 114 min | In Yiddish and Ukrainian with English subtitles
Featuring Guest Speaker Moshe Lobel from the cast of SHTTL
A Jewish village in Ukraine, bordering Poland, is on the verge of being taken over by Nazis. While drawing a vibrant canvas of a community that has many differing reactions to the impending tragedy, this astonishing film is made in what appears to be one continuous shot, the camera never stopping as it explores the rich world that it creates. The dialogue is almost entirely in Yiddish, and the film is mostly in black-and-white. SHTTL features a top-notch cast, led by Moshe Lobel, who was a featured cast member in Joel Grey's recent Yiddish stage production in New York of Fiddler on the Roof.
Director: Ady Walter
Writers: Samuel Fischler, Ady Walter
Producers: Yuriy Artemenko, Olias Barco, Jean-Charles Levy, Grebenchikova Ryta
Composer: David Federmann
Cinematographer: Volodymyr Ivanov
Editor: Jérémie Bole du Chaumont
Casting Director: Tatyana Vladzimirskaya
Production Designers: Iuliia Antykova, Ivan Levchenko
BFC JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL SPONSORED BY EDWIN & DORIS COHEN
Featuring Guest Speaker Moshe Lobel from the cast of SHTTL
The Other Widow (2022) | JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2024
NR | 83 min | In Hebrew with English subtitles
Nominated for nine Ophir Awards (the Israeli “Oscars), including Best Director and Actress, The Other Widow is about a theater costume designer and mistress (played by the great Israeli actress Dana Ivgy) who is shocked to hear of the sudden death of her lover. She attends his Shivah while keeping her identity under wraps, entering a world once forbidden to her. Through encounters with his brother, parents, and his wife, she examines her place in his life and eventually demands her legitimate right to mourn. Sharply observed and nuanced, The Other Widow is an impressive debut for writer-director Ma’ayan Rypp.
Director: Ma'Ayan Rypp
Writers: Anat Gafni, Ma'Ayan Rypp
Producers: Christophe Audeguis, Amir Harel, Ayelet Kait
Composer: Adam Weingrod
Cinematographer: Moshe Mishali
Editors: Yann Dedet, Clémence Diard
BFC JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL SPONSORED BY EDWIN & DORIS COHEN
The Ancient Law (1923) | Silent Film with Live original music by pianist Donald Sosin and violinist Alicia Svigals | JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2024
NR | 128 min | New Restoration
With Support of the Sunrise Foundation
With live original music composed and performed by world-renowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and celebrated silent film pianist Donald Sosin
Composer and pianist Donald Sosin is one of the world’s foremost silent film accompanists, and Alicia Svigals is the world’s leading klezmer fiddler and a founder of the Klezmatics. They will perform their score for the recently restored 1923 Weimar-era classic The Ancient Law, about a rabbi’s son who leaves the shtetl to become an actor in Vienna. (The story is reminiscent of Al Jolson’s The Jazz Singer, which was made four years later.) With its exquisite visual style that evokes Rembrandt, it is an outstanding example of the creativity of Jewish filmmakers in 1920s Germany. It was directed by E. A. DuPont (Variety, Piccadilly).
Director: Ewald André Dupont
Writers: Heinrich Laube (memoirs), Paul Reno
Composers: Donald Sosin, Alicia Svigals
Cinematographer: Theodor Sparkuhl
Production Designers: Alfred Junge, Kurt Kahle
BFC JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL SPONSORED BY EDWIN & DORIS COHEN
Featuring live original music composed and performed by world-renowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and celebrated silent film pianist Donald Sosin
We Were So Beloved (1989) | JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2024
NR | 145 min | New Restoration
In 1936, at the age of five, Manfred Kirchheimer fled Nazi Germany with his parents and struggled to make a new home in New York. Fifty years later, he draws upon interviews with family and friends (and uses quotes from Hitler’s Mein Kampf) to make this deeply personal and evocative documentary about the 20,000 German Jewish emigrants who similarly escaped the Holocaust and took refuge in Washington Heights, creating a thriving community under the shadow of the George Washington Bridge known as Frankfurt-on-the-Hudson. Kirchheimer’s masterful film is born of intimate experience and anguished reckoning, a shared sense of fear, guilt, and hope.
Director: Manfred Kirchheimer
Cinematographer: James Callanan
BFC JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL SPONSORED BY EDWIN & DORIS COHEN
The Plot Against Harry (1989) | JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2024
NR | 81 min | New Restoration
Small-time ex-con Harry Plotnick (Martin Priest), just released from prison, has a chance reunion with his ex-wife. He is suddenly immersed in middle-class normality and goes into the catering biz with his ex-brother-in-law (Ben Lang). What follows is a wild plot involving call girls, bar mitzvahs, lingerie fashion shows, Cuban-Chinese mobsters, subway parties, Mafia barbecues, dog training classes, Congressional hearings, and hotel pajama parties. Unreleased when it was made, the film was discovered more than 20 years later, and became a hit at the New York Film Festival. It was finally released theatrically and became an established comedy classic.
Director: Michael Roemer
Writer: Michael Roemer
Producers: Michael Roemer, Robert M. Young
Composer: Frank Lewin
Cinematographer: Robert M. Young
Editors: Georges Klotz, Terry Lewis
BFC JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL SPONSORED BY EDWIN & DORIS COHEN
Hester Street (1975) | Featuring Guest Speaker Ira Deutchman | JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2024
PG | 89 min | 4K Restoration
Featuring Guest Speaker Ira Deutchman
In New York’s Lower East Side in the 1890s, Jewish immigrant Jake (Steven Keats) has assimilated seamlessly into the American community…until his wife from back home (Carol Kane) arrives on his doorstep. Jake has a job in a sweatshop and an English-speaking girlfriend. Meanwhile, Gitl clings to her old country ways. Joan Micklin Silver’s debut feature, a beautifully detailed American independent classic that was sumptuously photographed in black-and-white, became an unexpected hit. Carol Kane garnered an Oscar nomination for her heartbreaking but ultimately empowering performance. This gorgeous new restoration is presented by the Cohen Film Collection.
Director: Joan Micklin Silver
Writers: Joan Micklin Silver (screenplay) | Abraham Cahan (novella "Yekl")
Producer: Raphael D. Silver
Cinematographer: Kenneth Van Sickle
Editor: Katherine Wenning
Casting Director: Jay Wolf
Production Designer: Stuart Wurtzel
BFC JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL SPONSORED BY EDWIN & DORIS COHEN
Featuring Guest Speaker Ira Deutchman, Producer of a new stage production of Hester Street that just premiered in Washington, D.C.
I Like It Here (2022) | Featuring Guest Speaker - Director Ralph Arlyck | JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2024
NR | 88 min
Featuring Guest Speaker - Director Ralph Arlyck
People talk or laugh about aging, its irritations and relentless progression, but rarely confront the reality of dying or being left alone. Nor do they consider the lightness and calmness that can come when the race seems not so crucial. I LIKE IT HERE is about all those things and, finally, about the pleasures of being alive. A figurehead of American independent documentary film, Ralph Arlyck conveys how it feels to look back on your own life, to contemplate your place in an ever-changing world, and what to make of the time that remains.
Director: Ralph Arlyck
Writer: Ralph Arlyck
Producers: Ralph Arlyck, Emmet Dotan, Steve Leiber
Composer: John K. Stone
Editor: Emmet Dotan
BFC JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL SPONSORED BY EDWIN & DORIS COHEN
Featuring Guest Speaker - Director Ralph Arlyck
Life is Beautiful (1997) | CINEMA ITALIANO! SERIES
PG-13 | 116 min
When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
Director: Roberto Benigni
Writers: Vincenzo Cerami (story by) (screenplay by) | Roberto Benigni (story by) (screenplay by)
Producers: Gianluigi Braschi, John M. Davis (version: English language), Elda Ferri
Composer: Nicola Piovani
Cinematographer: Tonino Delli Colli
Editor: Simona Paggi
Casting Director: Shaila Rubin
Production Designer: Danilo Donati
SERIES SPONSORED BY ARMAND POHAN & NANCY RIEGER
The Godfather Part II (1974)
R | 202 min
The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Writers: Francis Ford Coppola (screenplay by), Mario Puzo (screenplay by) (based on the novel by)
Producer: Francis Ford Coppola
Composer: Nino Rota
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis
Editors: Barry Malkin, Richard Marks, Peter Zinner
Casting Directors: Jane Feinberg, Mike Fenton, Vic Ramos
Production Designer: Dean Tavoularis
The Godfather (1972)
R | 175 min
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Writers: Mario Puzo (screenplay by) (based on the novel by), Francis Ford Coppola (screenplay by)
Producer: Albert S. Ruddy
Composer: Nino Rota
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis
Editors: William Reynolds, Peter Zinner
Casting Directors: Louis DiGiaimo, Andrea Eastman, Fred Roos
Production Designer: Dean Tavoularis
The Birth of Korea (2024-Documentary)
Not Rated| 101 min
Deog Young Kim's documentary, The Birth of Korea, provides an informative exploration of the contrasting evolutions of South and North Korea post their split in 1945. The film meticulously delves into North Korea's journey towards a communist dictatorship, characterized by the suppression of freedom and human rights. Simultaneously, it outlines South Korea's pursuit of economic growth and democracy. It further sheds light on the noteworthy obstacles and achievements of President Syngman Rhee and other founding figures in maintaining the Republic of Korea for over seven decades. The documentary delivers a thorough understanding of the region's historical progression.
Director: Deog Young Kim
Writer: Deog Young Kim
Death in Venice (1971) | CINEMA ITALIANO! SERIES
Not Rated | 130 min
While recovering in Venice, sickly composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio.
Director: Luchino Visconti
Writers: Thomas Mann (from the novel by), Luchino Visconti (screenplay by), Nicola Badalucco (screenplay by)
Producer: Luchino Visconti
Cinematographer: Pasqualino De Santis
Editor: Ruggero Mastroianni
SERIES SPONSORED BY ARMAND POHAN & NANCY RIEGER
Platoon (1986)
R| 120 min
Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.
Director: Oliver Stone
Writer: Oliver Stone
Producer: Arnold Kopelson
Composer: Georges Delerue
Cinematographer: Robert Richardson
Editor: Claire Simpson
Casting Directors: Pat Golden, Warren McLean, Bob Morones
Production Designer: Bruno Rubeo
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
PG| 195 min
The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
Director:D.W. Griffith
Writers: Thomas Dixon Jr. (adapted from his novel: "The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan") (as Thomas F. Dixon Jr.) (play "The Clansman") (as Thomas F. Dixon Jr.) (novel "The Leopard's Spots") (as Thomas F. Dixon Jr.), D.W. Griffith, Frank E. Woods
Producer: D.W. Griffith
Composers: Joseph Carl Breil, D.W. Griffith
Cinematographer: G.W. Bitzer
Editors: D.W. Griffith, Joseph Henabery, James Smith, Rose Smith, Raoul Walsh
The Birth of Korea (2024-Documentary)
Not Rated| 101 min
Deog Young Kim's documentary, The Birth of Korea, provides an informative exploration of the contrasting evolutions of South and North Korea post their split in 1945. The film meticulously delves into North Korea's journey towards a communist dictatorship, characterized by the suppression of freedom and human rights. Simultaneously, it outlines South Korea's pursuit of economic growth and democracy. It further sheds light on the noteworthy obstacles and achievements of President Syngman Rhee and other founding figures in maintaining the Republic of Korea for over seven decades. The documentary delivers a thorough understanding of the region's historical progression.
Director: Deog Young Kim
Writer: Deog Young Kim
Bicycle Thieves (1948) | CINEMA ITALIANO! SERIES
Not Rated | 89 min
In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Writers: Cesare Zavattini (story) (screenplay), Luigi Bartolini (novel), Oreste Biancoli (screenplay), Suso Cecchi D'Amico (screenplay)
Producer: Giuseppe Amato
Composer: Alessandro Cicognini
Cinematographer: Carlo Montuori
Editor: Eraldo Da Roma
Production Designer: Antonio Traverso
SERIES SPONSORED BY ARMAND POHAN & NANCY RIEGER
ASBURY SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL (2024)
For the second year in a row, the Barrymore Film Center is proud to host the Asbury Shorts Film Festival. Asbury Shorts USA is New York City's longest running short film exhibition & touring show. Since 1980 their short film "Concerts" have been presented at venues across the US, Canada, Great Britain and Germany. The mission is to screen world renowned, festival award-winning shorts - from all years - in cinemas, art museums, performing arts centers & cool outdoor locations - on real cinema screens (as opposed to You Tube, smart phones or computers). The program features a fast paced and highly entertaining line up of the best in short film Comedy, Drama and Animation. This unique showcase includes Oscar Nominees, US film festival 'Best of Show' winners and international honorees.
Footloose (1984)
PG| 107 min
A city teenager moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.
Director: Herbert Ross
Writer: Dean Pitchford
Producers: Lewis J. Rachmil, Craig Zadan
Cinematographer: Ric Waite
Editor: Paul Hirsch
Casting Directors: Jane Feinberg, Mike Fenton, Marci Liroff
Production Designer: Ron Hobbs
The Birth of Korea (2024-Documentary)
Not Rated| 101 min
Deog Young Kim's documentary, The Birth of Korea, provides an informative exploration of the contrasting evolutions of South and North Korea post their split in 1945. The film meticulously delves into North Korea's journey towards a communist dictatorship, characterized by the suppression of freedom and human rights. Simultaneously, it outlines South Korea's pursuit of economic growth and democracy. It further sheds light on the noteworthy obstacles and achievements of President Syngman Rhee and other founding figures in maintaining the Republic of Korea for over seven decades. The documentary delivers a thorough understanding of the region's historical progression.
Director: Deog Young Kim
Writer: Deog Young Kim
8 1/2 (1963) | CINEMA ITALIANO! SERIES
Not Rated | 138 min
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
Director: Federico Fellini
Writers: Federico Fellini (story) (screenplay), Ennio Flaiano (story) (screenplay), Tullio Pinelli (screenplay), Brunello Rondi (screenplay)
Producer: Angelo Rizzoli
Composer: Nino Rota
Cinematographer: Gianni Di Venanzo
Editor: Leo Catozzo
Production Designer: Piero Gherardi
SERIES SPONSORED BY ARMAND POHAN & NANCY RIEGER
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Not Rated | 88 min
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Director: Orson Welles
Writers: Booth Tarkington (from the novel by), Orson Welles (script writer)
Cinematographer: Stanley Cortez
Editor: Robert Wise
Shakespeare’s Macbeth (2024)
Not Rated | 150 min
Tony and BAFTA Award winner Ralph Fiennes (Antony & Cleopatra, Schindler's List, Coriolanus) and Olivier Award winner Indira Varma (Present Laughter, Game of Thrones, Luther) star in a brand-new ‘full-voltage visceral’ (★★★★ Daily Telegraph) production of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Filmed live at Dock X, a custom-built theatre space in London, this critically acclaimed staging of Macbeth ‘that quickens the pulse, then goes for the jugular’ (★★★★ Financial Times) will be released in cinemas across the UK and selected international territories from 2 May.
Directed by Simon Godwin (Antony & Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, Hansard) with set and costume design by Frankie Bradshaw (Jerusalem, Blues for an Alabama Sky), this is a cinematic and ‘beautifully staged’ (★★★★ WhatsOnStage) production that brings ‘Shakespeare’s tragedy pulsing into the present day’ (★★★★★ The I).
Macbeth is coming. A couple corrupted by their relentless lust for power have blood on their hands. Witness the gripping tale of greed, murder, deception, and superstition on the big screen for a limited time only. Once you cross the line, you can never turn back.