Darren Hughes
@longpauses.bsky.social
Occasional writer and film programmer with a day job. Cinema Scope, Filmmaker Magazine, MUBI Notebook. Artistic Director, FILM FEST KNOX. www.longpauses.com
Have y'all seen The Cobweb yet? Please prioritize The Cobweb! I love Minnelli's big, messy melodramas so much.
December 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Have y'all seen The Cobweb yet? Please prioritize The Cobweb! I love Minnelli's big, messy melodramas so much.
One of the best venues in Knoxville only books the very worst music. Like, I assume it's their business model. "There is a huge audience in Knoxville for shitty music; we will meet that need."
December 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
One of the best venues in Knoxville only books the very worst music. Like, I assume it's their business model. "There is a huge audience in Knoxville for shitty music; we will meet that need."
Always fun to look up random pre-Code actors.
November 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Always fun to look up random pre-Code actors.
We need more perfect 80-minute movies.
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
We need more perfect 80-minute movies.
Found the discussion I needed after listening to "Trinidad" for the fifth time.
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Found the discussion I needed after listening to "Trinidad" for the fifth time.
I couldn't remember why Chalfrant's name and face were so familiar until ...
November 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I couldn't remember why Chalfrant's name and face were so familiar until ...
I started my top-10-is-due-next-week film binge last night with Familiar Touch, which I loved for many reasons, the most important being Kathleen Chalfrant, who gives the best performance I've seen in years. In the character's brief moments of lucidity, she brings a full, fascinating person to life.
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I started my top-10-is-due-next-week film binge last night with Familiar Touch, which I loved for many reasons, the most important being Kathleen Chalfrant, who gives the best performance I've seen in years. In the character's brief moments of lucidity, she brings a full, fascinating person to life.
A Foreign Affair knocked me out. I'm not the biggest Wilder fan, but that guy saw America's fascist streak with a clarity that still feels shocking.
November 16, 2025 at 6:01 PM
A Foreign Affair knocked me out. I'm not the biggest Wilder fan, but that guy saw America's fascist streak with a clarity that still feels shocking.
Casting in You Can’t Take It With You is insane. Ann Miller (15) plays Jean Arthur’s (38) married sister. Spring Byington (52) is their mother and Lionel Barrymore (60) is their grandfather. Also wild that Capra has two of the all-time romantic leads and gives them so little screen time together.
November 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Casting in You Can’t Take It With You is insane. Ann Miller (15) plays Jean Arthur’s (38) married sister. Spring Byington (52) is their mother and Lionel Barrymore (60) is their grandfather. Also wild that Capra has two of the all-time romantic leads and gives them so little screen time together.
I always look forward to the weeks after the film fest, when I can watch whatever the hell I want. This year I'm starting with a Jean Arthur marathon. 😍
November 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I always look forward to the weeks after the film fest, when I can watch whatever the hell I want. This year I'm starting with a Jean Arthur marathon. 😍
Same Ross Douthat
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Same Ross Douthat
This is how it felt on the ground to me, too, but my god it feels good to see it in print.
November 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is how it felt on the ground to me, too, but my god it feels good to see it in print.
I just watched Spring Night Summer Night again (for a 10th time?), because I'm doing the intro at our fest on Friday, and that movie is a goddamn miracle. This image looks more like a still from a 1928 Fox production than 1967 Appalachian Ohio.
November 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I just watched Spring Night Summer Night again (for a 10th time?), because I'm doing the intro at our fest on Friday, and that movie is a goddamn miracle. This image looks more like a still from a 1928 Fox production than 1967 Appalachian Ohio.
Revisiting novels I haven’t read since college, and holy shit this is great. My mind drifted while reading one of those wonderfully complex Mrs. Ramsay sentences, and when I went back to find the subject (waves) the rest of the sentence fell into place and I was shook.
November 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Revisiting novels I haven’t read since college, and holy shit this is great. My mind drifted while reading one of those wonderfully complex Mrs. Ramsay sentences, and when I went back to find the subject (waves) the rest of the sentence fell into place and I was shook.
Same. Dante’s segment of Twilight Zone did me in too.
October 31, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Same. Dante’s segment of Twilight Zone did me in too.
This year at Film Fest Knox, we're presenting a rare program of films by Peter Bundy, who in the late-'70s and '80s was a recognized figure in the American structural film movement, before moving onto a second career in forestry. Read about him here. www.filmfestknox.com/peter-bundy/
October 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This year at Film Fest Knox, we're presenting a rare program of films by Peter Bundy, who in the late-'70s and '80s was a recognized figure in the American structural film movement, before moving onto a second career in forestry. Read about him here. www.filmfestknox.com/peter-bundy/
This seems about right
October 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This seems about right
FB informs me it's been nine years since I chatted with and photographed these two dashing young men.
October 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
FB informs me it's been nine years since I chatted with and photographed these two dashing young men.
Post a poster you have hanging on your wall
October 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Post a poster you have hanging on your wall
The FILM FEST KNOX program is live. :)
www.filmfestknox.com
www.filmfestknox.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The FILM FEST KNOX program is live. :)
www.filmfestknox.com
www.filmfestknox.com
The two greatest jangly records of all time (this is not up for debate) have been rereleased.
September 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The two greatest jangly records of all time (this is not up for debate) have been rereleased.
Signaling my virtue
September 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Signaling my virtue