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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We may like to imagine the life of an artist as lived in the clouds, responsible only to the winds of their artistic process, caught in the ebb and flow of inspiration. Showing Up disabuses us of that idea almost instantly.
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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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Showing Up
We may like to imagine the life of an artist as lived in the clouds, responsible only to the winds of their artistic process, caught in the ebb and flow of inspiration. Showing Up disabuses us of that idea almost instantly.
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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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