FILM FEST KNOX Free Screening Series | Nadja
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Michael Almereyda · 1994 · 97 minutes
August 26, 2026 · Regal Riviera · 7:00 p.m.
Merging elements from Dracula’s Daughter (1936) with André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja (1928), and fusing shimmering black-and-white 35mm with hallucinatory Pixelvision video, Michael Almereyda’s cult film centers on New York-based vampire Nadja (Elina Löwensohn) as she draws close to her twin brother Edgar (Jared Harris) following their father’s death at the hands of Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Fonda).
Jordan Hoffman in Vanity Fair called it “the most stylish vampire movie of the 1990s… simultaneously funny and sexy… a deadpan, bloodsucking adventure that proved you didn’t need a big budget if you had attitude, a cool setting, and an aesthetic point of view.”
Almereyda, whose films include Experimenter, Tesla, and a modernized Hamlet, is one of American independent cinema’s most inventive figures. Nadja was executive produced and financed, in part, by David Lynch, who also appears in the film. Soon before he died, Lynch signed off on a long-in-the-works restoration, which has brought new and much-deserved attention to this remarkable “lost” film.
August 26, 2026 · Regal Riviera · 7:00 p.m.
Merging elements from Dracula’s Daughter (1936) with André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja (1928), and fusing shimmering black-and-white 35mm with hallucinatory Pixelvision video, Michael Almereyda’s cult film centers on New York-based vampire Nadja (Elina Löwensohn) as she draws close to her twin brother Edgar (Jared Harris) following their father’s death at the hands of Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Fonda).
Jordan Hoffman in Vanity Fair called it “the most stylish vampire movie of the 1990s… simultaneously funny and sexy… a deadpan, bloodsucking adventure that proved you didn’t need a big budget if you had attitude, a cool setting, and an aesthetic point of view.”
Almereyda, whose films include Experimenter, Tesla, and a modernized Hamlet, is one of American independent cinema’s most inventive figures. Nadja was executive produced and financed, in part, by David Lynch, who also appears in the film. Soon before he died, Lynch signed off on a long-in-the-works restoration, which has brought new and much-deserved attention to this remarkable “lost” film.
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