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Film
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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.
Summer Movie Magic: ‘Vertigo’ comes to the Tennessee Theater
Every summer, the historic Tennessee Theater offers Knoxvillians a chance to see a select few classic films on the big screen through their “Summer Movie Magic” series. In the case of ‘Vertigo’, which opens this year’s “Summer Movie Magic” series this next weekend, any newcomers would be wise to leave all expectations at the door.
Preview: The Historical Absurdism of ‘Zama,’ Courtesy of Public Cinema
By Andrew Swafford Zama was one of the most widely celebrated films of last…
Big Ears 2018 Review – Film Program Embraces Abstraction
Over the course of this year’s Big Ears Festival, I watched 11 feature films and…
Big Ears 2018 – Regional Cinema, Regional Fear
You won’t find any mention of this on the official Big Ears website, but this…
Big Ears 2018 – Additions to the ‘Immersive’ Experience Feature the Intersection of Music and Film
Anyone who has attended one of the previous Big Ears Festivals will vouch for the…
Preview: Roger Beebe’s Films for 1-8 Projectors, a Performance in Celluloid
Roger Beebe doesn’t just make short films–he performs them. Projectors are his instruments, and he lines up eight of them in the back of a theater in order to cast multiple distinct images on screen at once, stacking snippets of sampled celluloid to create a dizzying collage of movement and color.
