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By Gregory Crofton You may think you’ve seen a documentary that reveals what it’s like inside a cult, but you’ve never seen one like this. It was made from the inside out. Its director, William Francesco Allen, was once the…
By Gregory Crofton In WEINER, a documentary that recently screened at the Nashville Film Festival, Anthony Weiner, a congressman who resigned his seat because of a sexting scandal, runs for mayor of New York City — a job that’s always…
By Shelly Winifred Barger SAVING BANKSY, a documentary that screened last week as part of the Nashville Film Festival, delivers insightful dialogue that challenges attitudes around the interplay of art and ownership. Street art is a fantastic vehicle that explodes…
By Gregory Crofton Not often are you lucky enough to see John Prine at a film festival, but that happened at the sold-out “Live from New York!” at the Nashville Film Festival. Prine, a singer-songwriter known for hits like “Sam…
By Gregory Crofton The Hip-Hop artist Che “Rhymefest” Smith bounded down onto the floor of the movie theater and told the projectionist to turn it up. The music playing over the end credits of the film got louder. Mic in…
