Jacob Burns

A self-taught artist, Alex Masket makes dynamic work with unconventional media and an uninhibited, bold use of color. His creativity and sophisticated understanding of light, color, and form are unconstrained by his severe autism, which does inhibit his ability to communicate verbally. Masket’s work has appeared in more than a dozen solo and group shows and in Esopus and other magazines. This award-winning short documentary both introduces us to this extraordinary artist and asks what artistic communication and the creative impulse are all about.

Followed by a discussion with of Arc of Westchester Executive Director Richard P. Swierat and autism advocate Elaine Masket (Alex’s mother), moderated by Dr. Beth Mount, a consultant who helps others see capacities in people with disabilities.

Join us upstairs in the Jane Peck Gallery for a reception after the film and the opening of an exhibition of Alex Masket’s work.

Presented in partnership with SEPTA:Special Education PTA and ArcWestchester.

"A celebration and a lament -- a celebration of Channing's seven decades as musical comedy star, and a lament that there's really no one like her anymore." (John Anderson, Variety)

Filmmaker Dori Berinstein (ShowBusiness, Gotta Dance) captures the life of Carol Channing both on and off the Great White Way in this intimate film about the legendary performer. Joining Berinstein for a post-screening Q&A is the incomparable Broadway performer Tommy Tune.

Celebrate Valentine's Day with Romance and Champagne
Audrey Hepburn plays a young widow in Paris pursued by a gang of bad guys who are after her late husband’s fortune. Cary Grant steps in to help, and their quicktalking flirtation takes off. Romantic, exciting, and electric with chemistry, this charming film is often described as the best Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made.

Each ticketholder will receive a complimentary glass of champagne in the Jane Peck Gallery before the start of the film.

 "a breathtaking and truly remarkable exhibition", "the greatest exhibition of the century" (London Telegraph)

Experience the U.K. National Gallery's sold-out, once-in-a-lifetime exhibition 'Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan' at the JBFC! The big-screen presentation of Leonardo Live gives art lovers the world over the opportunity to share in the excitement of viewing the unprecedented exhibition which boasts the largest ever number of da Vinci's paintings, including a new, never-before-seen Leonardo painting. See the paintings revealed in astonishing detail through close-up footage on the big screen!

Join Janet Maslin and Mark Harris for this lively, opinionated discussion about this year’s slate of Academy Awards nominations. We promise there’ll be plenty of clips, history, gossip, and inside info.

Q&A Mark Harris is an uncannily knowledgeable “Oscarologist.” He writes about the Academy Awards in his columns for Entertainment Weekly and ESPN’s new pop culture blog Grantland. His noted 2009 book, Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood, is the epic story of the five films nominated for the 1967 Best Picture award. Former New York Times lead film critic Janet Maslin has more than a few Oscar predictions, opinions, and anecdotes of her own. She interviewed filmmakers Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby), Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain), Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire), and Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) at the JBFC just before each was awarded the Academy Award for Best Director.

Buñuel’s late-career evisceration of the French bourgeoisie began with this sordid tale set at a French manor, its vainglorious denizens detached from the political unrest of the late 1920s. Enter Jeanne Moreau’s Célestine, who uses her role as object of the men’s obsession (who can blame them with those stockings she wears?) to satisfy her own mysterious designs.

Aging gangster Jean Gabin is set to retire after a successful heist that nets him 50 million francs in gold bars. But thanks to loose-lipped showgirl Jeanne Moreau, rival crooks learn of the loot and plot to take it. What follows is one of the coolest and most contemplative French crime films ever made, an emblem of loyalty and betrayal that culminates with machine guns and grenades on a lonely French road.

Two sets of twins separated at birth collide in the same city without meeting for one crazy day, as multiple mistaken identities lead to confusion on a grand scale. Shakespeare’s furiously paced comedy will be staged in a contemporary world into which walk three prohibited foreigners who see everything for the first time. Lenny Henry plays Antipholus of Syracuse. -NT Live

Join authors Sarah Vowell and Shalom Auslander for a screening and discussion about her favorite film, The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman’s off-key take on the Raymond Chandler story. Sarah Vowell says, “I would have never cast Elliott Gould as the iconic private eye Philip Marlowe. And boy would I have been wrong. Gould’s Marlowe is a mumbly mouthed wonder— sad, funny, and lovably exhausted. He takes a role more or less copyrighted by Humphrey Bogart 27 years earlier in The Big Sleep and holds onto its shrewd, deadpan voice while at the same time loosening him up into a wilder, wisecracking, slightly unhinged denizen of post-Manson Southern California.” • Robert Altman. 1973. 112 m. R. US. Park Circus.

Sarah Vowell is a bestselling writer on American history and culture. Her personal, often humorous accounts have also appeared on This American Life and in many publications. Shalom Auslander, whose work has been featured on This American Life and in The New Yorker, recently published his first novel. All ticketholders will recieve a copy of Vowell's latest book: Unfamiliar Fishes, her wry, anecdotal history of Hawaii.

Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal’s son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he’s mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he’s a charmer with those of a different stamp. And so, as Hardcastle’s indignation intensifies, Miss
Hardcastle’s appreciation for her misguided suitor soars. Misdemeanours multiply, love blossoms, mayhem ensues.

One of the great, generous-hearted and ingenious comedies of the English language, Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer offers a celebration of chaos, courtship and the dysfunctional family.