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The Brooks screens award-winning independent films throughout the year in the Dorothy K. Hohenberg Auditorium. Enjoy dinner, dessert and coffee, or a drink in the Brushmark Restaurant before or after the film. The Brushmark is open every Thursday evening from 5 to 9pm featuring seasonal entrees by Chefs Wally Joe and Andrew Adams, as well as a wine and cocktail list. Outdoor seating is available as the weather permits.  Call 901.544.6225 for reservations.

Auditorium sound system provided by Ninth Wave Audio/Video Design, generously sponsored by The Jeniam Foundation.

VIP FILM PASS

Available For Brooks Members Only
$35 for a year of free films!

This little VIP Film Pass is available to members for $35, which entitles the user to a year of free film admission.  No more standing in line, just flash your card like a true VIP and enter the theater.  You will also enjoy a 20% discount in the Brushmark Restaurant the night of a movie, and receive an invitation to a yearly VIP preview party. 

Call (901)544-6208 for full details.

 

PURCHASE VIP PASS

Thursday, March 11  | 7 pm

Reel to Real: Adam Hohenberg Presents "Memphis Revealed"

The third installment of our monthly Reel to Real series will feature producer Adam Hohenberg (Forty Shades of Blue, Cigarette Girl) who will discuss "I'm From Hollywood" which documents comedian Andy Kaufman's wrestling career in Memphis including his famous match with Jerry "The King" Lawler. Hohenberg say that a certain aspect of Memphis' character is shown. "It's a Memphis of a different time. I find it very interesting that Kaufman chose Memphis as his venue and that he kept coming back here." A discussion will follow the screening with milk and cookies.

 

ABOUT ADAM HOHENBERG

After college Adam worked as an assistant to experimental filmmaker Ernie Gehr (recipient of the AFI lifetime achievement award) in San Francisco and was associate producer of Side/Walk/Shuttle which had its world premiere at the Brooks and is in the permanent collection of MOMA. He was also associate producer of Ira Sachs' "Forty Shades of Blue", winner of Grand Jury Award at Sundance in 2005.

 

ABOUT THE FILM

Directed by Kaufman's girlfriend, Lynne Margulies, and Joe Orr.

I'm from Hollywood is a 1989 documentary film about the adventures of late performance artist Andy Kaufman in the world of professional wrestling. The film includes interviews with Taxi co-stars Marilu Henner and Tony Danza and interviews with comedian Robin Williams, wrestler Jerry Lawler, wrestling commentator Lance Russell, and Kaufman's best friend, Bob Zmuda.

 

External Links

IMDb page
View the trailer

 

Technical Information

Production Year: 1989

Country of Production: USA

Language: English

Running Time: 60 mins

 

 

Tickets

$6 for members; $8 for non-members; Free with VIP Film Pass

Call 901.544.6208 or click here to purchase.



MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

Reel to Real
Real people discussing reel favorites.

The Brooks is excited to introduce a new monthly film series, curated by Memphis personalities who select films that have played a role in the development of there work, or captured their interest in some way. The films will screen on Thursday evenings, and the featured guest will be on hand to discuss his or her selection.

Thursday, April 22 | 7 pm

Filmmaker Kentucker Audley

(Team Picture, Open Five)

 

Thursday, May 20 | 7 pm 

Film Critic John Beifuss 

(The Commercial Appeal)

 

Tickets

$6 members, $8 non-members. Free with VIP Film Pass. 

Call 901. 544.6208 or click here to purchase.


Saturday, March 20 | 2 pm

Italian Opera Series: L’Orfeo (Monteverdi)

Known for its dramatic power and lively orchestration, Monteverdi’s Baroque masterwork has obtained a position of supreme importance in the history of opera. This new production is coproduced with the Opéra National de Paris.

 

$18 members, $20 non-members. Free with VIP Film Pass. 

Call 901. 544.6208 or click here to purchase.

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Sivads of March

This four-day event celebrates the life and work of Watson Davis, better known as "Sivad," the legendary WHBQ-TV horror host of the 1960s and early 1970s. Highlights of the weekend include films, an art show, and live music at venues around midtown.

 

Thursday, March 25

6 – 7:30pm  |  Monster Martini Meet & Greet

Enjoy drinks from the cash bar while you mix and mingle with Sivad friends and colleagues.  

 

8pm  |  Fantastic Feature: Night of the Demon (95 mins)

Horror/noir specialist Jacques Tourneur (Cat People) directed this 1958 masterpiece that was the inspiration for Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell.  Dana Andrews stars as a skeptical scientist who makes a dangerous enemy: a demonologist! This is the uncut 95-minute British version, unseen in America for decades. Sivad screened this shocker (in its shorter U.S. incarnation, known as Curse of the Demon) three times between 1968 and 1971. One of the great horror movies!  

 

Tickets are $8 for general admission, and available at the door.* 

 

Friday, March 26

3pm  |  Fantastic Feature: A Bucket of Blood (66 mins)

B-movie legend Roger Corman – who this year received an honorary Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement – directed this ingenious $50,000-budget, five-day-shooting-schedule 1959 horror spoof of beatnik-coffeehouse culture, starring Dick Miller as a wannabe-scenester schlemiel who becomes a critical sensation when he discovers dead bodies make lively sculptures. An appropriate screening for the Brooks: This is the rare horror movie that’s actually about art. Big daddy-O Sivad laid this gem on the hipsters five times, from 1966 to 1970. The gore the merrier!  

 

Tickets are $5 for general admission, and available at the door.*

 

Saturday, March 27

Admission: Cash only

12:30 pm  |  Fantastic Feature: I Was a Teenage Werewolf (76 mins)

Before he was Little Joe or traveling the “Highway to Heaven,” Michael Landon was a juvenile delinquent with more than hairy palms in this infamous 1957 drive-in classic with the instantly notorious title. Call it “Rebel without a Cause, but with Claws,” or “Gee, Adolescence Sure Makes Hair Grow in Funny Places...”  Sivad gave fans a reason to howl when he screened Werewolf five times between 1965 and 1970.  

 

2 pm  |  Lil’ Film Fest: Beware the Sivads of March

See Live from Memphis' website for further details.

 

Tickets are $5 for general admission, and available at the door.*

 

Sunday, March 28

1 pm  |  Panel with Sivad colleagues and experts  

 

The Most (Unintentionally) Hilarious Movie Monsters in History

The “Sivads of March” concludes with a kid-friendly double feature of old-fashioned laugh-a-minute monster mayhem! Fun for the entire family! (Especially the Addams Family.)  

 

2 pm  |  Fantastic Feature: The Giant Claw  (75 mins)

The U.S. Army has egg on its face when an overgrown buzzard from outer space attempts to make the Earth into its nest! Jeff Morrow is the square-jawed radar scientist who battles the big bird with the help of Mara Corday, a mathematician whose favorite numbers must be 36-24-36. Who needs the jokesters of “Mystery Science Theater” when you’ve got a monster as entertaining as this one? Even Sivad was embarrassed: He served this literal turkey from 1957 only twice, in 1969 and 1970.  

 

3:30 pm  |  Fantastic Feature: From Hell It Came  (73 mins)

Tiiiiimber! Make way for Tabonga, the Trunk of Terror, in a 1957 camp classic about a South Seas monster worth rooting for: a walking tree! Blame it on the voodoo or the atomic fallout – either way, you’ll fall out of your seat when you see Tabonga waddle after his hapless victims! Sivad shared this horror tree-t with viewers in 1963 and 1965.  

 

Tickets are $5 for general admission, and available at the door.*  

 

(*All film events for the Sivads of March are free with a VIP Film Pass.) 



Saturday, April 10 | 2 pm

Italian Opera Series: Il Trovatore (Verdi)

Il Trovatore is considered one of the top 20 of Opera America's most-performed operas in North America. The original love triangle, Il Trovatore is a tale of the struggle between the magic of gypsies and the power of love.  


$18 members, $20 non-members. Free with VIP Film Pass.

Call 901. 544.6208 or click here to purchase.

 


Sunday, May 9 | 2 pm

Italian Opera Series: Viva La Mamma (Donizetti)

A ludicrous comedy about misbehaving opera singers and unruly egos, Viva La Mamma is a hilarious satire of the stage. 


$18 members, $20 non-members. Free with VIP Film Pass.

Call 901. 544.6208 or click here to purchase.

 



Bicycle Film Festival

Friday, May 21 | 7 & 9 pm

Get the best parking spot in Midtown! Enjoy our friendly and complimentary bicycle valet service when you ride over to the Brooks for two bike-themed film screenings.


Saturday, May 22 | 12 - 4 pm

Enjoy a neighborhood block party on the Brooks' plaza. This community event will feature great vegetarian food from local restaurants, music, giveaways from local stores, hands-on-activities for the kids, and demonstrations from your local bike shops!