{"id":361684,"date":"2026-03-27T21:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/361684\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T21:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:31:09","slug":"steven-spielberg-sci-fi-movie-series-coming-to-jacob-burns-film-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/361684\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Spielberg Sci-Fi Movie Series Coming to Jacob Burns Film Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTo mark the upcoming release of \u201cDisclosure Day,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/jacob-burns-film-center\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jacob-burns-film-center\" data-tag=\"jacob-burns-film-center\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Burns Film Center<\/a> is unveiling the <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/steven-spielberg\/\" id=\"auto-tag_steven-spielberg\" data-tag=\"steven-spielberg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Spielberg<\/a> Sci-Fi series. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe event will kick off on May 9 with a screening of \u201cA.I. Artificial Intelligence,\u201d a dark futuristic story that Spielberg took over following the death of Stanley Kubrick, who had intended to direct it. It will be presented in 35mm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Jacob Burns Film Center will offer screenings of a Spielberg-directed sci-fi film every weekend from May 9 through June 21.  The series will conclude with his 1977 classic, \u201cClose Encounters of the Third Kind.\u201d Other films include \u201cWar of the Worlds\u201d (on 35mm), \u201cMinority Report\u201d (on 35mm), \u201cE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial\u201d and \u201cReady Player One.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn a release touting the series, the Jacob Burns Film Center hails Spielberg as \u201ca true artist whose mastery of spectacle is equaled by an aptitude for mining the rich, often thorny emotional depths of the stories he tells.\u201d It adds that \u201cscience fiction provides a vast, malleable canvas upon which he can couple his fundamental strengths as a filmmaker with the peerless sense of imagination that makes him such a truly singular storyteller.\u201d The Jacob Burns Film Center is a nonprofit cultural institution in the New York metro area, operating across a three-building campus in Pleasantville, N.Y.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe center will also offer a series of post-screening discussions led by leading film scholars, to give audiences deeper insight into Spielberg\u2019s films, exploring their themes, context and cultural impact. NYU Faculty members Dana Polan (May 31), Kenneth Bowser (June 7), and Gail Segal (June 14) will each lead discussions following select screenings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cDisclosure Day,\u201d Spielberg\u2019s latest film, has been shrouded in secrecy, but reportedly is about aliens. Emily Blunt, Colman Domingo, Josh O\u2019Connor, Colin Firth and\u00a0Eve Hewson star in the film, which opens on June 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHere\u2019s the official poster:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-variety-2020\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The-Burns-Spielberg-Sci-Fi-Poster-8x13-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"1024\" width=\"630\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To mark the upcoming release of \u201cDisclosure Day,\u201d the Jacob Burns Film Center is unveiling the Steven Spielberg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,174804,15864],"class_list":{"0":"post-361684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-jacob-burns-film-center","12":"tag-steven-spielberg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}