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Reel to Real: Eric Jambor Presents

06/15/2010 by Emilyyyy

Thursday, June 17 | 7 pm Come to the Brooks this Thursday for two great films: Leo’s Room, the next Global Lens installment, at 2pm and Reel to Real: Eric Jambor at 7pm! Jambor, executive director for Indie Memphis and local filmmaker, will be showing his 1996 short film, “Gamalost,” which premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival and was awarded the Gold Award for best original dramatic short at WorldFest Charleston. Afterwards, Jambor will screen his choice for the […]

Categories: Education, Events, Film & Video, Music, People, Special Exhibitions, The Brushmark, Wine • Tags: art, Date Night Idea, Eric Jambor, film, Indie Memphis, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Reel to Real, Thursday Nights

Art and the Community.

11/29/2009 by ecallihan

Yesterday at the museum, we co-hosted with Indie Memphis musician Stoll Vaughan as part of the David Lynch-presented web series Interview Project. Vaughan played some music, showed a few of the interviews (which I highly recommend everyone check out – a new one is released every three days), and told some stories from the road. It was a great afternoon. I mention it because at one point Vaughan (a native of Kentucky, currently living in LA) said something that really […]

Categories: Film & Video • Tags: Urban Art Commission, Community Mural Program, documentary, Brooks Museum, film, Memphis, Indie Memphis, art, David Lynch, Interview Project, Stoll Vaughn, community, art therapy, South Main Arts District, Broad Avenue, Rocco Landesman, NEA, Art Works, Downside Up, MASS MoCA, Center City Commission

FILM: Visioneers

07/13/2009 by Emilyyyy

Thursday, July 16 | 7:30 pm If you’re into supporting Indie Memphis and the Brooks Museum, then you’ll love our next film. Visioneers, a movie about exploding people, demands of its viewers a certain experience in the common workplace. Featuring actor Zach Galifianakis from this summer’s comedy, The Hangover, Galifiniakis plays a character named George Washington who, although has notable symptons of combustion, ignores them and tries to go on with his life. His wife, played by Judy Greer from […]

Categories: Film & Video, People, The Brushmark • Tags: Arrested Development, Black Comedy, Comedy, film, Indie Memphis, Judy Greer, Memphis, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Spontaneous Combustion, The Hangover, Visioneers, Zach Galifianakis

April Film News

04/13/2009 by ecallihan

Thanks to all those of you who came out to see Soderbergh’s CHE screened in partnership with Indie Memphis. We had sell-out audiences both nights! In film news this month, we’re excited to announce the installation of a brand new Panasonic HD projector. This will allow us to screen even more ambitious projects in the future, so stay tuned for information on that. There’s a lot going on this month at the Brooks, so the April film schedule is light, […]

Categories: Film & Video, The Brushmark • Tags: $5 Cover, 1968 Debates, Brooks Museum, Craig Brewer, Film & Video, Gore Vidal, Indie Memphis, Le-Moyne Owen, Pervert's Guide, Slavoj Zizek, William F. Buckley

CHE: In Two Parts

02/19/2009 by Emilyyyy

The Brooks and Indie Memphis team up to present Steven Soderbergh’s biohistorical epic about the life of the controversial revoultionary icon, Che Guevara. This exclusive engagement will be shown in two parts on consecutive Sundays. Benicio del Toro earned a Best Actor award at Cannes for his portrayel of the controversial and paradoxical leader. As the tag line suggests: “Everyone knows the icon, few know the man.” I can confidently say that Che is one of the most talked-about films […]

Categories: Film & Video, The Brushmark • Tags: Argentine, Brooks Museum, Cannes, Che, Che Guevera, film, Guerilla, Indie Memphis, Soderbergh

Films in February

02/04/2009 by ecallihan

The Brooks teams up with Indie Memphis for a film series of “Festival Favorites” this month. “The idea was to bring some of the buzzed-about highlights of last year’s film festival circuit to Memphis for their only public screening, and we’re excited to work with the Brooks to make it happen,” said Indie Memphis Executive Director Erik Jambor. The lineup is: Thursday, February 12 at 7:30pm In Search of a Midnight Kiss In search of the perfect Valentine’s movie…? This award-winning feature is a […]

Categories: Film & Video • Tags: Brooks Museum, Film & Video, Indie Memphis, Sundance

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