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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Movies like The Nun II haunt viewers long after the credits roll is because, at least from their perspective, they’re tapping into something real.
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Minari | A Conversation with Lee Isaac Chung and Harry Yoon
Director Lee Isaac Chung and Editor Harry Yoon speak with filmmaker Eugene Suen about the making of the award winning film Minari
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City So Real | A Conversation with Steve James
Fuller Professor of Theology and Culture, Kutter Callaway spoke with Director Steve James about his five-part docuseries, City So Real
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The Nun II
Movies like The Nun II haunt viewers long after the credits roll is because, at least from their perspective, they’re tapping into something real.
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Top Gun: Maverick
Top Gun: Maverick isn’t a movie. It’s music. It’s the kind of story sung by ancient Greek poets who beseech the Muses for inspiration.
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Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers
The original cartoon, Chip ’n Dale Rescue Rangers, was itself a reboot/reimagining of a couple of classic Disney characters. Why not do it again?
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is another variation on the multiverse concept echoing through our blockbusters of late.
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The Northman
We see what we have the eyes of faith to see. The Northman lets us see with viking eyes for a couple of hours. I see, and I shudder.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
Everything Everywhere All at Once asks a question that is easy for us to answer: What is the meaning of life?
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This is Oslo; This is Gotham
The Worst Person in the World and The Batman cry for new narratives, for new ways of reaching maturity that don’t depend on childrearing and violence.
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Wine and War
Wine and War offers a glimpse into a kind of counter-narrative to cycles of violence, one in which beauty is borne out of pain, and transcendence is born out of depravity.
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Licorice Pizza
Licorice Pizza is like a trip to a record store. It’s a great hangout movie, awash in music and shining with all the adolescent feelings pop music so perfectly captures.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home
In Spider-Man: No Way Home, Peter Parker is given the gift of layered experience due to a rift in the space-time continuum. It’s fun for fans who have watched all the Spider-Man movies made since 2001. It is enlightening for Peter.
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Nightmare Alley
Nightmare Alley is merciless. It’s a lot like the “geek show” we see near the beginning of the film in which a man bites the head off a live chicken.
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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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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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