Brooks Films

08/15/2017

Made in Memphis and Banned in Memphis! Brooks Films in April

Fittingly, then, the first collaboration between Rossellini and Bergman is a devastating portrait of a woman’s existential crisis. Set against the beautiful and forbidding backdrop of a volcanic island, Stromboli features Bergman in the lead role as Karin, a post-WWII Lithuanian refugee who marries…

04/04/2017

Made in Memphis and Banned in Memphis! Brooks Films in April

02/02/2017

Joe Dallesandro, Cats, Dogs, and Oscar Shorts Come to the Brooks

George Carlin said it best: “‘Meow’ means ‘woof’ in cat.” And this year, Must Love Cats! goes to the dogs as we make room for feline, canine and Valentine’s inspired art-making activities, live performances, a cash bar, and two screenings of the Internet Cat Video Festival. Experience 70 minutes of…

01/03/2017

From Upstanders to Killer Rabbits: January News from Brooks Films

The winner of three prizes at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, including the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, Watchers of the Sky uncovers the forgotten life of Raphael Lemkin—the man who created the word “genocide” and believed the law could protect the world from mass atrocities. Inspired by the…

11/02/2016

Brooks Films Brings Grooms and Cloar to the Big Screen

Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did 17th century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer (“Girl with a Pearl Earring”) manage to paint so photo realistically 150 years before the invention of photography? The epic research project Jenison em...

09/30/2016

All manners of depravity: Brooks Films goes for the gore in October

Two-time Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple (Harlan County USA, American Dream) follows Grammy-nominated R&B dynamo Sharon Jones during the most courageous year of her life. Often compared to the legendary James Brown because of her powerful and energetic performances, Jones is no stranger to chall...

09/26/2016

Final Worldwide Screenings of Matthew Barney's River of Fundament This Weekend

In River of Fundament, Barney combines narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera. The human body—Norman Mailer's body—is replaced with the body of a 1967 Chrysler Imperial. Actually, three generations of American cars act as vehicles that carry the narrative. A 1967…

09/01/2016

Interpreting Cultural Upheaval: September News from Brooks Films

Wattstax was an immensely successful benefit concert in Los Angeles, California, put on and sponsored by Stax Records in Memphis, TN. Organized to benefit the community of Watts, after the riots of 1965, the concert was held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on August 20, 1972. Wattstax featured…

08/29/2016

Rest in peace, Gene Wilder.

Mr. Wilder’s neurotic comic persona added a special edge to numerous hits, like “Blazing Saddles,” “Stir Crazy” and “The Producers.”

08/10/2016

Black Girl, 7 pm tonight. We first screened this 1966 Senegalese film at the Brooks 29 years ago and tonight we're revealing the 50th anniversary 4K restoration, hailed as "a radical political statement and one of the essential films of the 1960s.” Both a landmark of world cinema and a devastating indictment of colonialism’s tragic legacy, Black Girl is the first African film to receive international acclaim. Please join us tonight!

The first major work of Senegalese director Ousmane Sembéne, this 1966 film is widely recognised as one of the founding works of African cinema. What starts ...

08/01/2016

Brooks Films Examines the Artistic Process: August News from Brooks Films

Both a landmark of world cinema and a devastating indictment of colonialism’s tragic legacy, Black Girl is the first African film to receive international acclaim. Please join is for this 50th anniversary screening.  Black Girl (or “La Noire De” in French) is a stylish black-and-white film by the no...