Me on the movies at NRO
I've got a piece on the Oscars and a new conservative film poll at NRO today. Here's a starter.
On Sunday night, Hollywood will roll out the red carpet and rev up their limousines for the 79th Annual Academy Awards. The four-hour long nationally televised ceremony gives us what is perhaps Tinseltown’s most honest depiction of itself — by which I mean the most glitzy, ditzy, and shamelessly shallow. At their core, the Oscars are a way for the movie industry to publicly congratulate itself for its brilliance and generosity — for really, who needs attention more than movie stars?
Labels: movies, shameless self promotion
posted by Peter @ 2/23/2007 09:09:00 AM
2 Comments:
It's nice to see this sort of stuff developing. Nice piece. One point I'd make -- "Happyness" is quite explicitly a pro-capitalist response to "Bicycle Thieves", now being reissued, right down to the reproduction of specific shots [the father and son sitting in a cafe eating meagre fare while a bourgeois family pigs out at the next table, the main character merging into the crowd at the end, etc.]
Whoa. Nice. I haven't seen Bicycle Thief in years, but that's kind of amazing... wish I'd picked up on that. Good notice, D.B.
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