Putting old films in conversation with new; expanding our sense of regional cinema
Revival
Film festivals are rare opportunities to put older, under-seen work in conversation with new films, like songs in a playlist. The Revival program at FILM FEST KNOX is intended to expand our understanding of American regional cinema by screening recent restorations and rediscoveries.
2025 Program
A Ghost Story
Dir. by David Lowery
A recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to try to reconnect with his bereft wife.Nov. 9 · Regal 1 · 2:00 p.m.
Edited Documents: Films by Peter Bundy
Nine Short Films
A survey of work made by regional filmmaker Peter Bundy between 1978-1982.Nov. 8 · Regal 2 · 11:30 a.m.
Songs and Stories: Short Films by Sailor Bear
Seven Short Films
A program of rarely-screened films by Toby Halbrooks, James M. Johnston, and David Lowery.Nov. 9 · Regal 2 · 12:00 p.m.
Spring Night Summer Night
Dir. by J.L. Anderson
Jessica, the eldest daughter of a coal miner-turned-farmer, has a fling with her half-brother Carl, which complicates things more when she becomes pregnant.Nov. 7 · Regal 2 · 5:45 p.m.
The Old Man & the Gun
Dir. by David Lowery
In his final leading role, Robert Redford plays a real-life prison escapee who became a folk hero after pulling off several bank heists at 70.Nov. 7 · Regal 2 · 8:00 p.m.
2024 Program
Desert Hearts
Dir. by Donna Deitch
While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed professor is unexpectedly seduced by a carefree, spirited young woman.Nov. 16 · Regal Riviera · 7:45 p.m.
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death
Dir. by John D. Hancock
A recently institutionalized woman has bizarre experiences after moving into a supposedly haunted country farmhouse.Nov. 15 · Regal Riviera · 10:00 p.m.
Northern Lights
Dir. by John Hanson & Rob Nilsson
The bitter-sweet story of young lovers caught up in a political struggle waged by farmers against the grain trade, the banks, and the railroads.Nov. 15 · Regal Riviera · 5:45 p.m.
Wanda
Dir. by Barbara Loden
Wanda, a lonely housewife, drifts through mining country until she meets a petty thief who takes her in.Nov. 17 · Regal Riviera · 11:30 a.m.
2023 Program
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Dir. by Pat Hartley & Dick Fontaine
In 1980 James Baldwin revisits locations of violent struggle during the Civil Rights movement.November 12 · Regal Riviera · 11:30 a.m.
New York Stories: Jim Jennings
Dir. by Jim Jennings
An 8-film program of shorts spanning four decades of Jennings's career.November 12 · Regal Riviera · 11:15 a.m.
Time of the Heathen
Dir. by Peter Kass
A wandering drifter witnesses a murder and goes on the run with the victim's young son.November 10 · Regal Riviera · 5:15 p.m.
