Jacob Burns

A lonely middle-aged brother and sister expect a boy to join them to help with their farm, but instead a spirited, imaginative red-headed girl arrives—and steals their hearts. The classic adaptation of the beloved novel.

BOOK CHAT FOR FAMILIES • Oct. 10, noon: After the screening acclaimed educator Anne Marie Santoro, founder of our third-grade visual literacy program SEE HEAR FEEL FILM, will lead a talk about the movie and the book that inspired it.

HEY KIDS! Bring a copy of L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, and you’ll receive a free child’s ticket for this screening.

"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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"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.

“The film’s hard-won good vibes had the audience cheering. Wonderful movie.” (Boston Globe)

This entertaining documentary chronicles a group of talented singers as they progress through the stages of a wildly popular televised contest similar to American Idol—except it all takes place in Afghanistan. Revealing an unfamiliar aspect of life in that shattered land, this timely film colorfully demonstrates the dramatic offscreen stories of four leading contestants in a show that is both a magnet for criticism and a crucible of change. Two awards at Sundance!
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“Possesses a brutal immediacy, unfolding like a Middle Eastern Grapes of Wrath.” (Time Out NY)

Filmmaker Ido Haar gives us an even-handed look at the little-known hardscrabble life of the thousands of young Palestinian men who are illegal laborers in Israel—and their determination to survive. A surprise hit in Israel, the film was named Best Documentary at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
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Q&A 7:30: Ido Haar, JBFC’s International Filmmaker-in-Residence

"A remarkable new film, something of a landmark in the Coen universe.” (Entertainment Weekly)

Special Screening!

The Coen Brothers' (No Country for Old Men) signature humor and cinematic imagination take on questions of faith, familial responsibility, delinquent behavior, dental phenomena, academia, mortality, and Judaism in their hotly awaited new film, A Serious Man. It’s the story of Larry Gopnik, a suburban Jewish physics professor who is plagued with a dysfunctional family, a vindictive neighbor, and a grade-grubbing foreign exchange student who is threatening his long-nurtured chance for tenure. In a moment of existential despair, he turns to three rabbis for help. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a righteous person—a mensch—a serious man?