{"id":62295,"date":"2019-11-26T09:09:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T14:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=62295"},"modified":"2019-11-26T15:54:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T20:54:35","slug":"bufs-wraps-fall-season-with-mockumentary-mister-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/11\/bufs-wraps-fall-season-with-mockumentary-mister-america\/","title":{"rendered":"BUFS wraps fall season with mockumentary Mister America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comedy absurdist Tim Heidecker brings his long-running character \u2014 Tim Heidecker \u2014 from the On Cinema podcast\/web series\/television universe to the big screen in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CjxUL0NI9O4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mister America<\/a>, playing at BUFS this Thursday at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of Heidecker and collaborator Gregg Turkington will know the characters and some of the mockumentary\u2019s key backstory from the decade-long, multi-incarnation On Cinema project, which features the two men reviewing movies against a backdrop of various preposterous events that contrast with their predictable film ratings (five popcorn bags out of five).<\/p>\n<p>Heidecker\u2019s trial for 20 counts of second-degree murder, which he beats only via mistrial, launches his vendetta against the prosecutor in the case and sets the groundwork for the film, which documents (mockuments?) his run for district attorney of San Bernardino, CA, in spite of the fact that he&#8217;s not an attorney and doesn\u2019t live in the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrue to previous form, <em>Mister America<\/em> is more of a relaxed, giggly character study\u00a0than one that treats gags like clockwork,\u201d says Nick Allen of RogerEbert.com about the film\u2019s comic spirit. \u201cIn a natural tonal shift, this restraint makes way for a melancholy rumination on\u00a0Tim&#8217;s self-destructive narcissism, which gives the film its ultimate staying power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for all BUFS shows are available at the Film House in the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre (PAC) on the evening of screenings. General admission is $9.50 or $7 for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/firstontariopac.ca\/Online\/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=FilmHouseMembership&amp;BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Film House members<\/a>, plus tax. Free BUFS memberships are also available on screening nights.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/social-sciences\/cpcf\/brock-university-film-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BUFS web page<\/a>\u00a0for this season\u2019s selection, with additional titles being added to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/firstontariopac.ca\/Online\/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=filmhouse&amp;BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">calendar<\/a>\u00a0as they are confirmed. Look for the red B that indicates a BUFS-hosted screening.<\/p>\n<p>For more than 40 years, BUFS has been bringing the best in independent and art house cinema to the Niagara region. The society is supported by the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Brock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedy absurdist Tim Heidecker brings his long-running character \u2014 Tim Heidecker \u2014 from the On Cinema podcast\/web series\/television universe to the big screen in Mister America, playing at BUFS this Thursday at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":62296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,38],"tags":[6970,92,1434,522,8476,8477],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62346,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62295\/revisions\/62346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}