Just in time for the Oscar ceremonies, my good friend Zach Schonfeld, Class of 2013, appears in this morning’s NYT. His thesis:
“Several of this year’s Oscar-nominated films, from “Marty Supreme” to “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” epitomize what we might call anxiety cinema: They’re designed to invoke neither fear nor joy in the viewer but a kind of delirious, ulcerous unrest.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/opinion/anxiety-movies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TFA.InTk.X6SXrxqbKyPO&smid=url-share
Zach was an English and American Studies double major and is author of “How Coppola Became Cage”, a filmography of actor Nicolas Cage.