The most satisfying aspect of Jacobson’s career has been the 30-plus years with partner Susan Jacobson that they have mounted TALK CINEMA (www.talkcinema.com), a sneak screening and critic-led discussion series on critically important new films before they are released theatrically to the public, before media campaigns are set in motion, before the consumer press has shaped perception of the film.
Formerly at Lincoln Center in New York and more than a dozen locations around the US., Talk Cinema now screens films at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute in Bryn Mawr PA, the Speed Museum in Louisville, and as pop-up screenings at theatres in New York City.
The TALK CINEMA audience is comprised of informed and connected opinion-makers in their respective communities who tend not to go to film festivals but have selected a series curated by Harlan Jacobson, the nationally recognized film critic whose signature guarantees quality selections from Cannes, Sundance, Toronto, Telluride, and other internationally ranked film festivals.
Talk Cinema audiences have often been the first in their cities to see new cinema, including from the archives:
A Fantastic Woman
A Man Called Ove
All About My Mother
Amelie
An Education
Antonia’s Line
Armageddon Time
Beau Travail
Before Night Falls
Being John Malkovich
Bend It Like Beckham
Billy Elliott
Blue is the Warmest Color
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Borat
Borg/McEnroe
Bread and Tulips
Brighton 4th
Brokeback Mountain
C’mon C’mon
Cadillac Records
Chungking Express
Cider House Rules
Citizen Ruth
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Dancer in the Dark
Dheepan
Don’t Think Twice
Downfall
Elizabeth
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Erin Brockovich
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eye in the Sky
Family Resemblances
Fargo
Fast Cheap and Out of Control
Force Majeure
Four Months Three Weeks and Two Days
Frances Ha
Girl With The Pearl Earring
Girlfight
Gods and Monsters
Gomorrah, Hamsun
Gosford Park
I Am Not Your Negro
I Daniel Blake
I Tonya
Ida
In the Mood for Love
Incendies
Irma Vep
Joe Gould’s Secret
Juno
Kinky Boots
Kitchen Stories
Kite Runner
LA Confidential
Lady Bird
Le Weekend
Life Is Beautiful
Living
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Locke
Lunchbox
Man on Wire
Matchpoint
Melancholia
Memento
Moonlight
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
My Name Is Joe
Nebraska
No Man’s Land
Old Henry
Once
Pain & Glory, Clemency
Pleasantville
Portrait of A Lady On Fire
Pulp Fiction
Rabbit Proof Fence
Rachel Getting Married
Rosetta
Russian Ark
Secrets & Lies
Shall We Dance
Shine
Sideways
Silver Linings Playbook
Slumdog Millionaire
Stan & Ollie
Starlet
Summer Hours
Super Size Me
The American President
The Angel’s Share
The Apostle
The Artist
The Band’s Visit
The Big Kahuna
The Big Lebowski
The Cooler
The Crying Game
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Dragon Tattoo
The English Patient
The Florida Project
The Good Boss
The Harmonists
The Ice Storm
The Inconvenient Truth
The Last Station
The Lives of Others
The Pope’s Toilet
The Reader
The Rider
The Saddest Music in the World
The Singing Detective
The Son’s Room
The Square
The Squid and the Whale
The Straight Story
The Sweet Hereafter
The Taste of Things.
The Two Popes
The White Balloon
The Worst Person in the World
Things We Lost in the Fire
Time Out
Toni Erdmann
Topsy Turvy
Tsotsi
Two Lovers
12 Monkeys
20 Feet From Stardom
20th Century Women
Under the Sand
Venus
Wag the Dog
Waiting for Guffman
Waking Ned Devine
When We Were Kings
Winter’s Bone
Y Tu Mama Tambien
You Can Count on Me
The list goes on forever.
