Army of Shadows
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.
I have a geographical handicap being located in Billings, MT, so it’s hard to see many of the films on my watch list in any given year, so I decided to pick five films from this year and another five classic films I watched for the first time this year. Five Films From 2014 1. Like…
Head over to Fandor to watch this incredible Israeli film. You’ll need a membership ($10 per month) to view it, but it’s worth it.
One of the greats. One of the greats.
Criterion is releasing a box set of three films by the Italian film director Roberto Rossellini and starring Hollywood’s Ingrid Bergman, Stromboli, Europe ’51, and Journey to Italy. These are remarkable films–highly recommend Journey to Italy, a film about a husband and wife whose marriage begins to disintegrate while traveling near Naples. A masterpiece film in Italian cinema.
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…
#15. High And Low dir. Akira Kurosawa (Japan – 1963)
Comments are closed.
This is a great post thankks