To celebrate the upcoming release of Disclosure Day, the Jacob Burns Film Center will present Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi series.
The event will begin on May 9th with a screening of “AI”, a dark future story that Spielberg took over after the death of Stanley Kubrick, who was scheduled to direct the film. It will be exhibited in 35mm.
The Jacob Burns Film Center will be holding screenings of Spielberg’s science fiction films every weekend from May 9th to June 21st. The series concludes with the 1977 classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Other films include War of the Worlds (35mm), Minority Report (35mm), E.T. and Ready Player One.
In a release promoting the series, the Jacob Burns Film Center hails Spielberg as “a true artist whose talent for mining the rich, often troubling emotional depths of the stories he tells is matched by his mastery of spectacle.” It added: “Science fiction provides a vast and malleable canvas on which he can combine his fundamental strengths as a filmmaker with the unparalleled sense of imagination that makes him a truly singular storyteller.” The Jacob Burns Film Center is a nonprofit cultural institution in the New York metropolitan area, operating across a three-building campus in Pleasantville, New York.
The center will also offer a series of post-screening discussions with leading film scholars to provide audiences with deeper insight into Spielberg’s films and explore their themes, context, and cultural influence. New York University faculty members Dana Pollan (May 31), Kenneth Bowser (June 7), and Gail Segal (June 14) will each lead selected post-review discussions.
Director Spielberg’s latest film, “Disclosure Day,” is shrouded in secrecy, but it is reported to be about aliens. The film, starring Emily Blunt, Colman Domingo, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth and Eve Hewson, will be released on June 12th.
The official poster is below.
