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Black Snake Moan: second in a Tennessee trilogy
An article article in today’s New York Times discusses the impending release of Black Snake Moan, the film starring Samuel L. Jackson. Writer Mark Olsen compares the working relationship between...
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‘Black Snake Moan’ director on Memphis and the South
This is an excerpt from an interview in Salon.com (Premium edition, subscription required, alas) with Craig Brewer, Memphis resident and director of Black Snake Moan. He is talking about Memphis: “It’s...
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Scopes Trial on Broadway while original set crumbles
Today’s New York Times has a review of Inherit the Wind, the play that has, for many people, become the truth about the 1925 Scopes Trial in Dayton. The part of Matthew Harrison Brady, modeled on...
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Oxford American releases first DVD
The Oxford American is a wonderful magazine that seemingly began its existence with nine lives, and has already gone through three or four of them. The magazine is beloved by subscribers for its once a...
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‘Iron City Blues’ film can’t even win Goober award
Having a slow day down at the film development office? Here’s a formula that never fails: pick some backwoods Southern town, hint that outsiders aren’t welcome there–“you ain’t from around here, are...
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Cas Walker film in Knoxville
Due to popular demand, Knoxville’s East Tennessee Historical Society will show This is Cas Walker, a film about East Tennessee’s most famous–and most notorious–grocer and public figure. The film will...
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Elvis on American Idol
I’ve never been a fan of American Idol, except when Boulder local boy Ace Young came in seventh back in 2006. I have to admit, however, that I was blown away when I saw the American Idol Elvis/Celine...
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When Bonnie & Clyde met Lester and Earl
The New York Times had a good story on Sunday about the 40th anniversary of Bonnie and Clyde, the Arthur Penn directed movie featuring the young Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the title characters,...
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Clarence Brown, Tennessean gone Hollywood
Next to Quentin Tarantino, Clarence Brown is the most famous film director to have spent his childhood in Knoxville. Brown directed Greta Garbo more than any other director, and called the shots for...
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To Kill a Mockingbird: time for a remake?
The 50th anniversary of the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird is upon us, according to an article in The New York Times. This book has to be on anyone’s top ten list of Southern novels, and the...
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