Recent widower (and movie producer) Shigeharu is looking for a new wife. But instead of going the usual route, he decides to hold “auditions” for a movie that doesn’t exist. Shigeharu quickly becomes enchanted with Asami, a spooky twenty-something who is responsive to his charms. But things aren’t what they seem. AUDITION was the turn-of-the-millenium flash point that signaled the talent of Takashi Miike (ICHI THE KILLER). With this movie, Miike delivers a nerve-shredding exploration of male fears and the stereotype of submissive Japanese women. Shocking audiences worldwide with its white-knuckle finale and ingenious slow-burn build-up, AUDITION was responsible for creating a fresh new wave of Asian horror. And we’re eternally grateful. (AGFA)

In 1963, rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) and ranch hand Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) are hired as sheep herders in Wyoming. One night on Brokeback Mountain, Jack makes a drunken pass at Ennis that is eventually reciprocated. Though Ennis marries his longtime sweetheart (Michelle Williams) and Jack marries a fellow rodeo rider (Anne Hathaway) the two men keep up their tortured and sporadic affair over the course of 20 years.

Silent film + alt-rock mashup series Silents Synced returns to Central Cinema with 1925's forward-thinking A WOMAN OF THE WORLD, soundtracked by selections from Pearl Jam's second and third records.

Central Cinema is pleased to team up with the Knox County Public Library's Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound for a free monthly screening event, alternating between regionally-relevant feature films and dispatches from their extensive archive of audiovisual treasures.

Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold (Bud Cort) finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude (Ruth Gordon) at a funeral.

The Trail to Oregon! is a fast, funny, and entirely historically accurate musical portraying the Oregon Trail. Originally written and produced by Starkid productions, this musical gives a totally educational insight into the most iconic road trip in America’s history. Follow a dysfunctional, all American family as they trek across the country, just like the classic video game! What could go wrong?

An angelically beautiful Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this dazzling musical heart-tugger from Jacques Demy. She plays an umbrella-shop owner’s delicate daughter, glowing with first love for a handsome garage mechanic, played by Nino Castelnuovo. When the boy is shipped off to fight in Algeria, the two lovers must grow up quickly. Exquisitely designed in a kaleidoscope of colors, and told entirely through the lilting songs of the great composer Michel Legrand, THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG is one of the most revered and unorthodox movie musicals of all time. (Janus Films)

Our Skate Video Night series presents a monthly program of top-shelf skate videos, presented on VHS and DVD curated by our friend Chris Albiston.

Though he once spent time in San Quentin, 22-year-old black man Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan) is now trying hard to live a clean life and support his girlfriend (Melonie Diaz) and young daughter (Ariana Neal). Flashbacks reveal the last day in Oscar's life, in which he accompanied his family and friends to San Francisco to watch fireworks on New Year's Eve, and, on the way back home, became swept up in an altercation with police that ended in tragedy. Based on a true story.

Get ready for Comedy Debate League, where two hilarious comedians go head-to-head to settle the ultimate showdowns of our time! From board games vs. video games to the great pineapple pizza debate, each show promises comical arguments and side-splitting punchlines that will keep you rolling in your seat. But here’s the twist: YOU, the audience, hold the power to decide the ultimate champion!

Small-time crook Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) tries to steal a car and winds up with its owner's daughter, dissatisfied small-town girl Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway). Their crimes quickly spiral from petty theft to bank robbery, and tensions between the couple and the other members of their gang – hapless driver C.W. (Michael J. Pollard), Clyde's suave older brother Buck (Gene Hackman) and Buck's flibbertigibbet wife, Blanche (Estelle Parsons) – threaten to destroy them all.

In the Pacific Northwest in 1983, outsiders Red Miller (Nic Cage) and Mandy Bloom (Andrea Riseborough) lead a loving and peaceful existence. When their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed by a cult led by the sadistic Jeremiah Sand (Linus Roache), Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with deadly fire.

After a dazzling meteor shower, the Nightbeast lands near a small East Coast town, armed with his vaporizing ray gun and a goal of killing everyone who crosses his path. As area residents are blasted to smithereens, the local sheriff and an ever dwindling group of survivors become determined to figure out a way to defeat this fearsome alien before their entire community is wiped out. A dazzling display of lo-fi ambition from Baltimore based cult filmmaker and underrated auteur, Don Dohler (ALIEN FACTOR), NIGHTBEAST immediately plunges the viewer into a frenzy of wildly colorful and stunning animation techniques, homemade gore effects, and awkward sexual encounters. Made for a scant $14,000 and featuring a soundtrack partially composed by a then teenage J.J. Abrams, this regional sci-fi/horror classic has been restored in 2K from the original 16mm camera elements. (AGFA)

Our month of unconventional love stories ends with the dramatic two-part conclusion of the Twilight Saga, screening one day only as a double feature event. We've scheduled nearly an hour of space between films for bites & drinks around Happy Holler, so bring some friends along and relive the magic!

Bella Swan and Edward Cullen’s honeymoon phase is abruptly disrupted by betrayals and unforeseen tragedies that endanger their world.

After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi.

Join us for our FREE monthly live standup engagement, showcasing the best comics from Knoxville and elsewhere, courtesy of our friends at Tiny Stage Comedy!

We're thrilled to welcome C. Thomas Howell back to Central Cinema for a very special screening event as he tells stories & answers questions about his experience in the leading role of Francis Ford Coppola's classic ensemble drama THE OUTSIDERS, which helped catapult a generation of young actors to silver screen prominence.