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A Look Back: Central Cinema’s First Year of Adventurous Programming

Central Cinema celebrates their first anniversary this August, and aside from a few film recommendations here and there, we at Arts Knoxville haven’t covered their programming all that much since interviewing the founders ahead of opening night. But how could we? There’s always so much of it.
Arts Knoxville would like to take the theater’s anniversary as an opportunity to highlight some of the most adventurous programming that Central Cinema has offered to local audiences over the past year.

Downtown West Offers Rare Screening of Surreal Chinese Noir ‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’

By Andrew Swafford There are a lot of titles vying for your attention at…

Bigger Than Big Ears: Public Cinema’s Month-Long Installation Program

By Andrew Swafford If Arts Knoxville’s film coverage has been a little quiet over…

The 91st Academy Awards: Who Will Win and Who Should Win

Life as a movie-lover in Knoxville can be difficult, especially around this time of year. With this year’s Oscars Ceremony this Sunday — honoring the movies of 2018 — it’s easy to not only feel overwhelmed by the amount of nominees but disappointed in the amount of nominated movies that are actually accessible in our city. Most years, many of the “best movies of the year” are not even screening in Knoxville until the week before the ceremony and often they screen even after that. 2018 marks a unique occurrence in the world of film distribution, though, and likely illustrates a shifting tide. Films produced and distributed by online streaming platforms for the first time cracked the major categories and may signal an even greater shift for years to come.