CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2025: Alan at Night (2025)
Directed and written by Jesse Swenson, Alan at Night is about what happens when Jay (Joseph Basquill) needs a new roommate after his YouTube partner leaves town. It’s only for a month, as his girlfriend Sam (Hadley Durkee) plans on moving in. That brings Alan (Chris Ash) into their lives. He’s quiet; he can’t hold his […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2025 Red Eye #7: At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (1964)
All hail David Dastmalchian! He picked the last Red Eye of the Chattanooga Film Festival, and man, he did it right! Coffin Joe! Also: How amazing is it that this movie was made in 1964? It had to scare the hell out of people. How badass is Zé do Caixão, or as we know him, […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2025: House of Ashes (2024)
Meat Friend, a short that director and co-writer (with Steve Johanson) Izzy Lee made, is one of the best short films I’ve seen, so I was excited about this feature. Mia (Fayna Sanchez) has lost her husband and her baby, which has led to her being jailed in her home, as she lives in a […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2025: In the Mouth (2025)
I know that you don’t have to love every protagonist in every film, but I somehow found myself watching multiple films at the Chattanooga Film Festival, where each lead made me want to rage-quit the movie. That’s not fair to the filmmaker or the film, so I stuck it out each time. This would be […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2025: Inertia: Re-Making The Crow (2001)/James O’Barr’s The Crow (1998)
Inertia: Re-Making The Crow (2001): Directed by David Ullman along with Matt Jackson, who in their teen years decided to take an obsession over the film The Crow and recreate it with a version closer to James O’Barr’s original graphic novel. Shot on video and in black and white, this took four years and drove […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2025: CFF Salutes Your Shorts
It’s the first block of shorts, so with no further ado — let’s get into it! Cat and Fish (2025): In this animated short by director and writer Nilram Ranjbar, a fish goes to a much better, larger body of water, all thanks to the sun and an unexpected friend: a cat. What charming animation […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2025 Red Eye #5: Get Crazy (1983)
Allan Arkush based most of his early films on his real life. Rock ‘n Roll High School is pretty much about going to New Jersey’s Fort Lee High School. And this film is all about his experiences working at The Fillmore East as an usher, stage crew member and in the psychedelic light show Joe’s Lights, which […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2025 Red Eye #4: The Girl Most Likely To…(1973) and Mooch Goes to Hollywood (1971)
The Girl Most Likely To…(1973): My acting career pretty much begins with an appearance as Sergeant-Major Morris in The Monkey’s Paw and ends with my role as Dr. Green from this story. No, I was not in the movie. I was in a stage play version and the kiss that gave me a fatal heart attack […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2025: The Spirit of Halloweentown (2024)
In 1998, the Disney Channel Original Movie Halloweentown was filmed in St. Helens, Oregon. Since then, it has seen 50,000 visitors every October, even 25 years later. Yet, just like the town in the series of Disney films—Halloweentown II: Kalabar’s Revenge, Halloweentown High and Return to Halloweentown—the locals believe that there are real hauntings. And beyond that, […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2025: Good Night (2025)
A young Brazilian girl, Laura (Rebecca Rosato), has come to Argentina to visit her aunt but once there, schedules don’t work out – her aunt has forgotten that she’s coming to town – and all her luggage is lost in her taxi and what follows is an all-night adventure through a crazy night, ala After […]
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