ACFmovie podcast

Titus & Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry talk to our friend Matt Mehan, educator & author of children's books about his new book for America's 250th an., The Book of American Fables. Education, the imagination, children's books, patriotism, the formation of the soul--everything is in the conversation...

Titus & Nathan Pinkoski discuss the new English translation of Jean Raspail's novel The Camp Of The Saints.

Titus & Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry talk about Michael Mann's movies -- the visual beauty, the music, the statuesque actors, the night shots, the alienated, romantic manliness -- the last cinematic stand against feminism.

Titus & Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry discuss the new Japanese-American love affair over pop culture on X--we talk anime, cinema, history, & the deeper motives for friendship...

Titus Techera & Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry discuss the Peter Thiel thesis on Apollo/Woodstock -- techies v. hippies, the beginning of the end of the future. We talk pop culture -- sci-fi, fantasy, & the attempts to rouse America from slumber.

ACF Middlebrow 47 David Zucker by Titus Techera

ACF Europe #26 La Grazia by Titus Techera

Titus & Sebastian Edoardo di Giovanni discuss Parthenope, Paolo Sorrentino's story of the beauty & decadence of Naples & Italy since the mid-century.

Titus & Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry discuss movies--John Woo--novels--Jean Raspail, Camp of The Saints--the art & publications of the contemporary online right, as well as wine & ascots.

Titus & David Polansky talk about David Lynch's LA Neo-noir Lost Highway, on the occasion of Lynch's death.

ACF Critic Series #62 Harold & Maude by Titus Techera

Titus & Heather Mac Donald discuss the bad conscience & despotic tendencies of liberalism in light of the elections. We also discuss the civilizational questions of crime & punishment, Enlightenment & irrationality.

Titus & Oliver Traldi discuss the films of Whit Stillman & his thoughts on the problems of love, art, & society.

Titus & Ryan Shinkel complete their discussion of Dune with the first very successful adaptation, Denis Villeneuve two movies. We look at the story to understand its success with audiences, especially young men, but also the director's interest, especially reviving the skepticism of manly heroism that defined Herbert's novel.

Titus & Ryan Shinkel continue their series on Dune with David Lynch's ambitous attempt to create out of Frank Herbert's galactic empire politics a moral fable about a young man coming of age.

Titus & Ryan Shinkel discuss Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune, science fiction & fantasy, modern rationalism & imperial history, mid-century America & the young men who made the story the greatest success in its genre for three generatons.

Titus & Jeremy Carl talk about Carl's new book, The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart -- we discuss the changes in conservatism & America, the attack on equality before the law & what needs doing to restore it.

Titus & Prof. William Allen discuss his new translation of Montesquieu's The Spirit of The Laws.

Titus & Miles Smith IV discuss Visconti's adaptation of the most famous 20th c. Italian novel, Lampedusa's Gattopardo. The end of the aristocracy, the beginning of the bourgeoisie, the problem beauty poses for art.

Titus & Sebastian Edoardo di Giovanni talk about The Young Pope, Paolo Sorrentino's HBO comic miniseries about a reactionary American pope calling the modern world to account before the mystery of God!

Titus & Joshua Steinman discuss the Coen Bros.' Hail Caesar, a vision of the American mid-century, the post-war moment when glamour & technology competed in Los Angeles, when the beautiful visions of the past held sway & science had not yet replaced them.

Titus & Chris Rufo discuss the last remarkable Peter Sellers film, Hal Ashby's Being There, a satire on Washington, D.C., but also an existential drama with a philosophical interest in the problem of nihilism. We touch on everything from the zombie Biden presidency to Heidegger's Dasein!

Titus & Lafayette Lee talk Werner Herzog's Aguirre, The Wrath Of God -- conquistadors in the Amazon, El Dorado & terror, a journey into the heart of darkness, a return to the origins of monsters & heroes. Manly nihilism, the indifference & hostility of nature, incest.

Titus & Sebastian Edoardo di Giovanni talk Italian politics & Paolo Sorrentino's artistic vision of the Italian republic in Il Divo, the secrets of the politicians & the transformation brought about by democracy...

Titus & David Polasnky discuss dystopia & the transformation of elite opinion in the 50 years since Soylent Green came out--a movie whose horrors of poverty are now offered as policy proposals for a progressive future.