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.
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.
