This review is skeletal at best, but with good reason: It’s been three weeks since I viewed the cinematic kaleidoscope created by Shane Carruth called Upstream Color and I still can’t tell you what it’s about in any linear sense. That’s exactly why I enjoyed it, though. Carruth’s new feature is his second; Primer (2004) was [...]

Mud is a coming-of-age story that’s also a love letter to American literature and classic American movies. For writer-director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter) it began with a simple idea that gestated for years in his creative imagination. “It’s a pretty dense story and I think a part of that is the fact that I’ve carried [...]

The Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) that wrapped Thursday at Regal Green Hills Stadium 16 broke records and charted new territory, according to its organizers. The festival presented by Nissan closed its 44th consecutive year with a 5.7% increase in attendance and a total of 27,813 attendees, which was music to the ears and eyes of Artistic [...]

Like several of my colleagues I got into journalism because John Seigenthaler was my hero from the first time I heard him speak about his profession. Around the same time this amazing, encouraging and remarkable man was getting me to imagine what “comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable” (to borrow loosely from Finley Peter Dunne) [...]

The Nashville Film Festival today announced winners of NaFF 2013. at the Awards Ceremony at the Green House Bar in Green Hills.  Artistic Director Brian Owens presented the awards. Three films won two awards each: Breakfast with Curtis, directed by Laura Colella, This is Martin Bonner, directed by Chad Hardigan, and Nairobi Half Life, directed [...]

The Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) has named Nashville Convention and Visitors Corporation President and CEO Butch Spyridon the winner of the 2013 Nashville Film Festival Beacon Award.  The award was presented by NaFF Executive Director Ted Crockett at Tuesday’s sneak peek screening of the Bureau’s new documentary film For the Love of Music: The Story [...]

Nashville Public Television (NPT) has chosen Remote Area Medical, directors Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaman’s document of the annual three day “pop-up”  medical clinic organized by the non-profit Remote Area Medical (RAM) at the Bristol, Tennessee NASCAR speedway, as the 2013 recipient of the NPT Human Spirit Award at the Nashville Film Festival. The NPT [...]

The Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) has announced the complete line-up for Short Films in Competition to be screened at the 44th annual Festival running April 18-25 at Regal Green Hills Stadium 16.  The Festival features short films from 35 countries, in categories ranging from narrative, experimental, animated, young filmmakers, and Tennessee shorts. The Festival features 168 [...]

The Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) today unveils the Retrospective and Graveyard Shift screenings for the 44th annual Festival scheduled April 18-25 at Regal Green Hills Stadium 16.  The selected Retrospectives range from years 1923 to 2009 and include a 90th anniversary screening of the 1923 silent comedy Safety Last!. For its own Graveyard Shift late-night cult-movie [...]