By Andrew Swafford There are a lot of titles vying for your attention at the movies right now – many of them deserving. At just about every multiplex, there’s Olivia Wilde’s immediately beloved coming-of-age comedy Booksmart, as well as the…
Film Review: Paul Schrader’s ‘First Reformed’ at Regal Downtown West
In the introduction to the new edition of his critical text, Transcendental Style in Film, Paul Schrader recalls the temerity with which he first wrote the book as a graduate student in 1971, as well as the panel discussion a half-century later that ultimately led him to start rethinking his earlier work. It seems that his recent rethinking was not content to be cloistered away on the page; Schrader needed to put his new theory into practice. With ‘First Reformed’, he has done so in a magnificent fashion.
Film Review: Palm d’Or Winner ‘The Square’ is Ambitious, but…
Alternately silly and scathing, writer/director Ruben Östlund’s latest film, The Square—this year’s Palme d’Or winner—offers audiences a thoughtful satire with a Swedish sensibility.
Film Review: ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’
In ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’, Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos returns with another disturbingly cerebral moviegoing experience, and solidifies his reputation as an auteur more than capable of making his audience squirm in their seats.
Preview: Public Cinema Screens Indie Comedy ‘Person to Person’ with Producer Q&A
‘Person to Person’, which plays in Knoxville this Wednesday thanks to The Public Cinema, is a New York character piece about crime and passion—but not in the way you might think.
2017 Knoxville Film Festival At Regal Downtown West Sep. 15-17
(Above: Winners from the 2016 Knoxville Film Festival) Now in its 14th year, the Knoxville Film Festival has grown from its previous incarnation as the Secret City Film Festival into a major event for local cinephiles, both filmmakers and film-goers.…