On Cinema at the Cinema’s Reflection of a Noncritical World May 9, 2021
Have you ever sat down and thought about the role of criticism in culture? That may be a strange question to lead off with, but it’s been the question nagging at me the last few weeks and, well, a lot further than that if I’m honest with everyone. Still, this nagging question bubbled back up to the surface of late for me. Why?
Because I had Oscar Fever.
No, not for the actual Academy Awards. I’ll watch those occasionally and try to watch the films that win the top categories every year, but I’m not talking about the Oscars themselves. No, I had Oscar Fever, or, as the raging fictional id of Tim Heidecker sang in the opening to the