Posted On: July 20th 2026, 03:55 pm
“Nostalgia is cheap, and plenty of films peddling it have died on the vine. What sets BACK TO THE FUTURE apart is not that it is nostalgic, but that it grasps nostalgia as a production, a site of labor. It doesn’t remember the past; it re-manufactures it, to spec, on a studio lot.”
—Our summer Blockbuster issue continues with AJ McDougall (@oldmcdougall) on the surreal nostalgia of 1985’s BACK TO THE FUTURE!
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