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.
We’ll watch everything from blockbusters to indie dramas to westerns to cartoons to horror to documentaries to musicals to science fiction. We’re going to talk about founding fathers, like John Adams and Alexander Hamilton, and even more important American figures, like Rocky Balboa and Tom Cruise. We’re going to travel to the baseball fields of the Midwest, the beaches of France, near-futuristic dystopias, and to the Moon and back.
As America celebrates her 250th birthday (nationally, the anniversary is branded “America 250” because the word “semiquincentennial” is hard to say — but it goes so well with the word “cinema,” so we’re using that), there’s no better time to review the movies that make us who we believe ourselves to be.
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