Film critics Andrew Swafford and Reid Ramsey choose their Top Ten films of 2018. Check your list against theirs.
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Preview: Central Cinema Presents Their First Celluloid Feature With ‘Out of the Past’ in 16mm
By Andrew Swafford NOIRVEMBER is coming to a close at Central Cinema — and Knoxville’s…
Preview: Welles Classic – ‘Touch of Evil’ – At Central Cinema
By Reid Ramsey Orson Welles is having a moment. While the director has never…
Review: Director Bradley Cooper Makes His Remake of ‘A Star Is Born’ Truly His Own
By Reid Ramsey “Music is essentially twelve notes between any octave. Twelve notes and…
Exclusive Preview: ‘A 1928 Night at the Movies’ – A Celebration of the Tennessee Theatre’s 90th Anniversary
By Andrew Swafford The historic Tennessee Theater is having its 90th anniversary this year,…
Central Cinema Revisits the Western as Anti-McCarthyism Allegory with ‘High Noon’
By Reid Ramsey When audiences originally filed into theaters expecting to see gun battles,…
Monday Arts Miscellany – August 27
One can feel September sneaking furtive glances at us as August stubbornly hangs on a…
Central Cinema: Q&A with founders William Mahaffey and Nick Huinker
By Andrew Swafford After a lengthy process of fundraising and volunteer construction, Central Cinema has…
UT’s ‘7 Days in America’ Selected for 2018 Immigration Film Festival
Documentary storytelling with the aim of providing non-profit organizations with the materials to raise awareness…
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.
