Jacob Burns

"Spectacle, a love triangle, heritage settings, bravura acting, witty dialogue, a bittersweet finale: There's something for everyone in Anne Fontaine's Coco Before Chanel." (Hollywood Reporter)

Audrey Tautou (Amélie) plays Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel in this intelligent, carefully crafted biopic of her early life, from her childhood in a French orphanage to the love triangle that set her career in motion. Director and co-writer Anne Fontaine brings wit, style, and restraint to match Tautou's layered performance as the penniless young girl who came to embody the modern woman.

 “Campion’s wild vitality makes this movie romantic in every possible sense of the word.” (NY Times)

Directed by Jane Campion, the Academy Award–winning writer and director of The Piano, Bright Star was a hit at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. A film of exquisite poetry, both literary and visual, it’s the true story of the 19th-century love affair between 23-year-old English poet John Keats, and Fanny Brawn, the girl next door. Starring Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish, Bright Star has been called "one of the most deeply moving romantic films in memory” (LA Times).

"Capitalism: A Love Story is a searing outcry against the excesses of a cutthroat time." (Entertainment Weekly)

Academy Award–winning director Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 911, Sicko) is back. This time he’s using his provocative approach to examine the global economic meltdown and what he has described as “the biggest robbery in the history of this country”—the massive transfer of US taxpayer money to private financial institutions. “It will be the perfect date movie,” he says. “It’s got it all—lust, passion, romance, and 14,000 jobs being eliminated every day.” Opening nationally on Oct. 2—a year and a day after the Senate voted to approve the $700 billion bailout—it’s sure to generate more than its share of controversy.
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Special Program! Book Event!

Editor of the New York Times Book Review and the Week in Review section of the paper, acclaimed author Sam Tanenhaus appears with his newest book, The Death of Conservatism, for a book signing and discussion with JBFC Programming Director Brian Ackerman.

The program will consist of a viewing of Richard Nixon's "Checkers Speech" followed by a discussion of the modern history of the conservative movement. In his latest book, The Death of Conservatism, Tanenhaus argues that modern conservatism has decayed into a culturally driven movement that seeks to destroy civil society through ideological warfare, rather than advancing a coherent philosophy of governance. This is the outcome of a war of ideas that began more than half a century ago and has shaped the politics of our time, resulting in the bitter polarizing conflicts of our own moment.

Sam Tanenhaus, in addition to his posts at the NY Times, and regular guest appearances on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," is the author of Whittaker Chambers: A Biography, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The Death Of Conservatism has been hailed in the New York Review of Books as a "very original take on the past few decades of politics—prickly, revisionist, provocative." He is one of the country's leading political thinkers and its preeminent historian of modern conservatism. He is currently at work on a biography of William F. Buckley.