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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  • 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

  • Anthony Lane Reviews “The Great Beauty”

    ByBrian Murnion

    The “beauty” of the title refers to many things, but, above all, to Rome. That is where Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo), a writer known for producing a single book and attending innumerable parties, has lived for decades. Clearly, he never tires of the place; the happiest moments in this long and indulgent film, directed by…

  • 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…

  • Top 25 Films of the Decade 2010 – 2019

    ByBrian Murnion

    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 In(Pedro Almodóvar, Spain – 2011) The Town(Ben Affleck, USA – 2010) Locke(Steven Knight, UK – 2013) Blade Runner 2049(Denis Villeneuve, USA – 2018) Parasite(Bong Joon Ho, South…