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Willie Osterweil

State of the Industry: Politically Deployed Cinema at the Oscars

By Willie Osterweil × Criticism

The 85th Academy Awards, like no show before it, will elevate films that are openly ideological, weaponized tools of the state…

State of the Industry (Part II): And the Winner Is…The State!

By Willie Osterweil × Criticism

What do Michelle Obama and her soldiers have to do with this awards ceremony, this trifle, this broadly acknowledged irrelevancy?