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Jacob Burns Film Center Opens, First for Region

PLEASANTVILLE, NY-A host of celebrities from the silver screen were on hand here to launch the opening of the area's first cultural center devoted entirely to film--the Jacob Burns Film Center.

By John Jordan | Updated on June 18, 2001

PLEASANTVILLE, NY-Major screen actors, including Glenn Close, Ang Lee, Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Williams, Paul Schrader, Debra Winger and Arliss Howard gathered here on Saturday to celebrate the “film cutting” of the region’s first cultural center on film–the Jacob Burns Center.

The $7 million facility, that was formerly the Rome Theater, totals 18,500 sf of space and includes a 260-seat “premier theater.” The brick walls of the former Rome movie house were preserved and are surrounded by a facility that offers a stadium seating type format with high-tech acoustical paneling. The architectural firm Davis Brody Bond of New York City designed the new facility.

The Jacob Burns Film Center will show independent films, documentaries, international film series and movie classics. The premier screen at the facility will present “the most talked about, cutting-edge films until now largely unavailable outside of Manhattan,” officials with the Jacob Burns Center note. Film programming will be undertaken in collaboration with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, host of the New York Film Festival.

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