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Music

playlist: To Kill A Goldfinch

It’s been a long time since I made a proper playlist—one that wasn’t just a random collection of songs to accompany a morning run or a commute to…

Top 300 Tracks of My 30s

A decade is not a clean break. It carries forward the unresolved from the previous 10 years. When I turned 30, I thought I had a grip on…

Top 40 Albums of The Decade 2010 – 2019

10 Shortlisted Albums In no particular order. Vampire Weekend // Modern Vampires of the City Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx // We’re New Here Goldfrapp // Tales of…

The Beatles: My Top 20 Tracks

This list was hard to make. After all, to love their music is to need their music everywhere. There’s a Beatles track for most moments of my…

Literature and Poetry

Mundus et Infans by W.H. Auden

Kicking his mother until she let go his soulHas given him a healthy appetite: clearly, her roleIn the New Order must beTo supply and deliver his raw materials…

Film

the best movie you’ve never seen

Birth follows a woman who is preparing to move on with her life after her husband’s death, when a ten-year-old boy appears and calmly insists that he is…

Top 25 Films of the Decade 2010 – 2019

9 SHORTLISTED FILMS(In No Particular Order) The Big Short(Adam McKay, USA – 2015) Roma(Alfonso Cuaron, Mexico – 2018) Certified Copy(Abbas Kiarostami, France/Belgium – 2010) The Skin I Live…

Redoubtable (2017) – Dir. Michel Hazanavicius

Redoubtable is a film we’re very much looking forward to this year! It’s premiering at Cannes and competing for the Palme d’Or. For fans of La Nouvelle Vague (The New Wave), films of…

Art & Culture

the best movie you’ve never seen

Birth follows a woman who is preparing to move on with her life after her husband’s death, when a ten-year-old boy appears and calmly insists that he is…

Leonard Cohen

His voice carried the quiet truth that even broken things can shine. Born in Montreal on September 21, 1934. Died in Los Angeles on November 7, 2016.

White Light / White Heat

Flying to New York today and “White Light / White Heat” during the flight. One of the better pop records ever recorded. The Velvet Underground was one of…

Monte Carlo+Hermes

Madly in love with the old world. Film grain, analog cameras, fashion, and cars. Bring it back.

About Luminis Cultura

Before anything brilliant happens, there’s usually a slight flicker. I’m not claiming to make brilliant things. But I do keep showing up, hoping to notice something worth pausing for. The chance of stumbling onto something meaningful still feels romantic to me. And that’s the spark.

It’s not easy. It often means sifting through a wild mix of books, ideas, opinions, design, music, art, fashion, trends, and old stuff that still matters, maybe. The world is full to the brim. Trying to shape a small, meaningful corner of it takes time, attention, and a bit of editing.

That’s why I started Luminis Cultura. I needed a place to gather, place, and curate. To think out loud, so to speak. To follow creative threads and see where they lead. Most days, it’s a gamble. But it’s always about drifting towards virtuous beauty. That’s the joy.

Luminis Cultura is curated, written, and helmed by Brian Murnion—a filmmaker, creative director, poet, and self-proclaimed intellectual scrub based in Billings, Montana.