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Nathan Smith, Author at The Knoxville Mercury
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James Baldwin’s Legacy Overshadows New Oscar-Nominated Documentary ‘I Am Not Your Negro’

In Movies & TV by Nathan SmithMarch 21, 2017leave a COMMENT

It’s generally safe to assume that the films I endorse are films I enjoy. But once in a while, pleasure and purpose diverge, and I feel compelled to recommend a …

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Isabelle Huppert’s Hot Streak Continues in Mia Hansen-Løve’s Character Study ‘Things to Come’

In Movies & TV by Nathan SmithJanuary 11, 2017leave a COMMENT

“Time marches on never ending/Time keeps its own time.” Those are the first lines of “Finally,” the best-known single by house-music producer Sandy Rivera, which I first heard in French …

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The Public Cinema Launches New Microbudget Film Series With Docu-Fiction ‘Never Eat Alone’

In Movies & TV by Nathan SmithNovember 30, 2016leave a COMMENT

Next week, the Public Cinema launches a new strain of programming they’re calling the Lab. With the series, Public Cinema programmers Paul Harrill and Darren Hughes intend to cast light …

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Unconventional Documentary ‘Hotel Dallas’ Ponders J.R. Ewing, Eastern European Communism, and Memory Itself

In Movies & TV by Nathan SmithNovember 9, 2016leave a COMMENT

In 1978, Dallas, one of the longest-running American primetime drams, premiered on CBS. The show became a hallmark of 1980s television, one of the most iconic of the era’s many …

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Backward ‘Slash’: Coming-of-Age Flick Offers a Half-Hearted Defense of Fan Fiction

In Movies & TV by Nathan SmithOctober 6, 2016leave a COMMENT

Few of the Internet’s many subcultures are as massive, or as misunderstood, as the slash-fiction community. Slash fiction is erotic fan fiction that pairs otherwise uninvolved fictional or historical characters: …

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