BY HAYLEY WILSON Known for its immersive approach to performance, First Take Co. brings theatre to the movies in its production of Annie Baker’s 2013 Pulitzer Prize–winning play The Flick. Founder and Creative Director Ethan Graham Roeder directs one…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: June 30, 2020
It has been three and a half months since our last Miscellany, the absence reflecting the lack of substantial art and music news to report. Unfortunately, the pandemic is not over and the necessary vigilance in keeping ourselves and others…
The Public Cinema at Central Cinema: ‘Varda by Agnès’
By Andrew Swafford 2019 was a quiet year for The Public Cinema, Knoxville’s free-admission, venue-hopping “microcinema.” They screened one new release in April—Christian Petzold's Transit; one classic film in September—Barbara Loden's Wanda; and a series of installation pieces throughout…
Interview with ‘Light From Light’ Director Paul Harrill
By Andrew Swafford Light From Light, opening December 6th at Central Cinema, is the second feature film from Knoxville filmmaker Paul Harrill. In addition to his work making films, Harrill also works as a professor of Cinema Studies at…
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.
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 newly opened indie theater is ending with a special presentation of Out of the Past projected in 16mm. When Arts Knoxville interviewed Central Cinema co-founders…
Preview: Welles Classic – ‘Touch of Evil’ – At Central Cinema
By Reid Ramsey Orson Welles is having a moment. While the director has never moved out of conversations about cinema and Classic Hollywood in the more than thirty years since his death, Welles’s work is experiencing a unique resurgence.…
Monday Arts Miscellany – September 3
The fall arts season has traditionally started with Labor Day, so here we are. This week, add in First Friday and you have a wide range of enlightenments and diversions. Here are a few highlights. THEATRE The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra…
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 officially announced its opening festivities. Self-described as “a community movie house located in the heart of North Knoxville’s Happy Holler neighborhood”, the theater will be hosting a First…
Review: Knox Horror Film Fest Celebrates Genre Variety
Over the past nine years, the Knoxville Horror Film Fest has remained unapologetically committed to its core vision of keeping Knoxville cinema scruffy. In its early days, the fest consisted of a marathon screening of obscure splatter shorts, but recent…