Brehm Film brings together filmmakers and film-viewers, Christian leaders and laity, scholars and students for dialogue between our culture's primary stories and the Christian faith.
Brehm Film brings together filmmakers and film-viewers, Christian leaders and laity, scholars and students for dialogue between our culture's primary stories and the Christian faith.
Brehm Film brings together filmmakers and film-viewers, Christian leaders and laity, scholars and students for dialogue between our culture's primary stories and the Christian faith.
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Recent Reviews
West Side Story
The primary point of view in West Side Story is that of a wrecking ball, like the inverse of below-the-water shots that begin Jaws. Death is coming, this time from above.
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House of Gucci
Most acting is so good we don’t notice it. We accept the characters as real and forget they are being performed by actors making choices. House of Gucci doesn’t let us do that.
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Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
The film is a celebration of Vonnegut on multiple levels: as a novelist, writer, and public intellectual, but also as a friend, a father, humorist, aficionado of life, and finally a loved one.
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tick, tick… BOOM!
There is something inherently, necessarily myopic about the creative process where an artist has to focus on their unique work to such a degree that it’s easy to lose sight of the web of loving relationships that surround and support them.
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Dune: Part One
Dune: Part One is an inherently ecological tale. It’s about the preeminence of the natural world in the workings of our governments, economies, and religions.
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The Last Duel
The Last Duel isn’t a subtle film. Ridley Scott’s latest is a medieval #MeToo movie with a dash of Rashomon.
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The French Dispatch
In the beginning was the word in The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson’s long release-delayed ode to the literary magazine ideal.
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The Rescue
The Rescue allows us to catch a glimpse of what true heroism looks like.
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No Time To Die
No Time to Die is an admirable farewell for Daniel Craig’s take on Bond. The movie is maybe a little long, but it’s long in the way that a dinner with friends stretches into the evening when you don’t really want it to end.
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The Alpinist
Leclerc invokes the theological language of awe, the feeling of absolute dependence, as he seeks the visceral awareness of “being so small in a world that’s so big.”
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is a very good Marvel movie, which is akin to saying that there is a great new item on the menu at Applebee’s.
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The Lost Leonardo
Through the twists and turns of the story, you’ll doubt that a work of such importance could possibly have remained hidden all these years, but by the second half of the movie, you’ll find yourself thinking more about the relationship of art to money and power, as the question of… Read more »
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The Green Knight
The Green Knight is the old tale told rather straight with a gothic sensibility, meaning there are no contemporary action theatrics to see here, just weird fantasy stuff.
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Roadrunner
Roadrunner resists the urge to neatly package Bourdain’s life and death. It is a bold move.
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Nicholas Wolterstorff’s Response to Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed”
Nicholas Wolterstorff’s Responds to Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed”
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Are Horror Films C-c-catholic?
Horror films have a Catholic Christian core and are accessible to a universal, that is, small “c” catholic audience.
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Playing With Sharks
What if the entire population of a given place was made up of artists? Marfa, Texas is a place where you can find out.
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My Name Is Pauli Murray
The documentary My Name Is Pauli Murray introduces us to the activist and spiritual leader the world forgot.
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Summer of Soul
Through footage that has never been seen before—and that sat in a basement for 50 years—this documentary gives visibility to the healing and radicalizing gift the festival brought to the neighborhoods of Harlem.
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Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
It’s honestly kind of surprising this documentary hasn’t been made before
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Bad Hair
The real demon in Bad Hair the normative standard of white beauty. When you scream, whether you realize it or not, you’re screaming at the horrors of white supremacy.The real demon in Bad Hair is the normative standard of white beauty. When you scream, whether you realize it or not,… Read more »
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Palm Springs
If you’ve got to be trapped in the same day for all eternity, you at least want to be able to lounge in an infinity pool, right?
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50 First Dates
50 First Dates manages to say something novel about this “meaningless, meaningless life” we life we live, as time-loop movies make so abundantly clear.
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In the Room with Scott Derrickson
Scott Derrickson, director and screenwriter of The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Doctor Strange, has a conversation about storytelling, the horror genre, and the creative process.
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Uncut Gems
Uncut Gems is electric,If you can tap into it quickly, you can ride the current right up until it arcs off the screen and into your skull, at which point you can either let it continue through your body warming your every cell or you can switch off and just… Read more »
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Ford v Ferarri
Ford v Ferarri is a story of how a team of underdog idealists prevailed working within the stifling climate of an immense corporation. It’s a story about what it costs an idealist to work within an institution.
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Marielle Heller has previously made movies about thoroughly unlikeable people and dared audiences to sympathize with them. Here, she dares us to believe kindness of this sort is possible.
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The Irishman
A common trope of faith and film writing is that the cinema is a “sacred space.” In Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, the theater becomes a confessional.
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The Lighthouse
Robert Eggers is back with The Lighthouse, another unsettling time warp into the dark recesses of American folklore.
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Strange Negotiations: Music As Transgression
In this way, the film manages to stay focused on the particularities of Bazan’s story, but it does so by setting this one man’s personal journey against the backdrop of a series of broader shifts.
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