Brian Murnion

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.

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  • Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman

    ByBrian Murnion

    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.

  • My 10 Favorite Cannes Palme d’Or Winners Since 1975

    ByBrian Murnion

    I love this time of year—when Cannes is in full swing, and a slate of new films are competing for the coveted Palme d’Or! There are many promising films this year to keep your eye out for (just to name a few):

    • 120 Beats per Minute (France) dir. Robin Campillo

    • The Beguiled (USA) dir. Sofia Coppola

    • Happy End (France, Germany, Austria) dir. Michael Haneke

    • Redoubtable (France) dir. Michel Hazanavicius

    • L’amant double (France) dir. Francois Ozon

    • The Killing of a Sacred Deer (UK, Ireland) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

  • The Dust Bowl

    ByBrian Murnion

    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…