Semiquincentennial Cinema: Independence Day (1996)

We will not go quietly into the night.

Welcome to Semiquincentennial Cinema. All summer long here at Feature Presentation, we’ll be taking a look at movies that depict, portray, represent, and symbolize the American experience. We’ll talk about what it means to be an American, the best and worst of what this country can be, and what we still want and need from it. We’ll check in on the American experiment, and how the movies we make say something about how it’s going.