For All Mankind
What we’re watching this weekend.


What we’re watching this weekend.


Brian Murnion is a filmmaker, creative director, poet, and self-proclaimed intellectual scrub from Billings, Montana. He spends an unreasonable amount of time obsessing over the connective tissue between music, film, literature, and whatever else seems culturally or aesthetically significant at any given moment. His curation process is equal parts curiosity, fixation, and blind luck, driven by the irrational hope that brilliance is hiding in plain sight somewhere in the chaos.
We lost a truly great actor yesterday. Memory eternal Philip SH. Here’s a scene from Magnolia. This moment alone accelerated my interest in film production. I remember watching this scene for the first time back in the day, and I think of it often.
#15. High And Low dir. Akira Kurosawa (Japan – 1963)
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 her husband reincarnated. I first saw this film in 2004, alone, late at night, at the Lagoon Theater in Uptown, Minneapolis. I remember wondering what sort of…
The Dust Bowl, a film by Ken Burns, is as heartbreaking as it is intriguing. A documentary about one of the worst man-made disasters in American history. I’m researching and writing a few treatments for documentaries I want to produce in 2014, and of all the docs I’ve seen recently, The Dust Bowl is a…
Here’s a rolling selection of modern films that I’m working through. Several of these titles are available to rent or buy online and some have yet to be released. I’ll update as I come across more titles. FILMS I WANT TO WATCH: Beyond the Hills (2013) Dir. Cristian MungiuRomania Museum Hours (2013) Dir. Jem CohenAustria, USA Upstream Color (2013)Dir. Shane…