ACFmovie podcast

Titus & Sebastian Edoardo di Giovanni talk about Paolo Sorrentino's second movie, his first romantic story, or at least novelistic character study, starring the greatest Italian actor of the 21st c., Toni Servillo. Sorrentino comes up with a beautiful story about the secret power of love & morality over the heart of modern man, & a striking admiration for the past.

Titus & Steve Sailer discuss his upcoming anthology of articles, columns, speeches, & essays -- the first volume of a lifetime of noticing important facts about American society that respectable institutions don't want to talk about. This time around, we talk about the Sailer Law of Female Journalism.

Titus & Peachy Keenan discuss her new book Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War, a funny but spirited battlecry, to rouse the moms of America, for family & also for faith.

Titus Techera & Lafayette Lee discuss No Country For Old Men, the Coen Bros. movie & the Cormac McCarthy novel it's based on. We talk about manliness & war, confrontations with evil, & the transformations of America, North & South in their influence on the West, the 60s, & our world now...

Titus & David Polansky discuss the wonderful war-time movie The Life & Death of Col. Blimp, a Powell-Pressburger combination of propaganda & art, & a rare opportunity to reflect on British character through the Imperial wars & the World Wars, as well as on America & its wars in the comparison.

Titus & Jack Fowler talk about Battleground, the first major cinematic depiction of the Battle of the Bulge, the end of WW2, & the conflict that revealed American character. Happy Memorial Day!

Titus & Ryan Shinkel discuss David Lynch's Blue velvet, a movie about suburbia & the city, a boy growing up to be a man by facing evil, & the predicament of American freedom, which might mean ignoring evil or embracing it...

Titus & L0m3z discuss David Fincher's Fight Club & its relation to right-wing Twitter anons -- the age of agonizing men looking for causes, who attack capitalism & matriarchy but find it difficult to associate or be productive.

Titus & David Polansky discuss Terry Gilliam's Brazil, a dark comedy, a tale of future tyranny, also a Romantic fantasy--we talk about the ways in which it describes our troubles, & more adequately than the more famous entries in dystopian science fiction.

Titus & Steve Sailer discuss the unpleasant facts of political life in America & the study of those facts through the use of statistics. Steve talks about how he studies patterns of behavior and what conclusions this leads him to about the two major political coalitions & the ways of life they make possible, as opposed to the rhetoric & the ideology peddled by pundits in the mass-media.

Titus & Sohrab Ahmari discuss Mulholland Dr., David Lynch's story of Hollywood, love of the beautiful leading to murder--the glamour that sustains FantasyLand & the misery that leads to corruption--dreams & morality!

Titus & Flagg Taylor discuss Paul Newman's Thanksgiving movie, Nobody's fool, a story about a man returning to family & learning what he might have that he should give thanks for. We talk about upstate New York, a rural setting, post-industrial, becoming impoverished, & how people have to deal with aging & mortality. I compare this setting, full of quarrels & tinged by despair, with social media!

Titus & Pete Spiliakos talk about the working class buddy cop action comedy, the relationship between friendship & justice for men, & the succsess of the Lethal Weapon franchise.

Titus & Pete Spiliakos talk about the most famous buddy cop action comedy--justice for Christmas, Los Angeles summoning heroic men to do daring deeds, the superiority of noble sacrifice to therapy when it comes to men grieving.

Titus & Sebastian Edoardo di Giovanni discuss the elections in Italy & the new gov't of Giorgia Meloni, a right-wing politician dedicated to the Italian nation & who quotes the conservative sages of our times--Roger Scruton. We talk about the economic, immigration, & foreign affairs problems facing Italy.

Titus & Aaron Kheriaty discuss Aaron's new book, The New Abnormal, a report on the biomedical security state & a warning about the threats to civil liberties rising in response to the pandemic.

Titus & John Presnall talk about Brian De Palma's transsexual thriller, a poetic attack on psychiatry & a look at the transformation of society after the sexual revolution, as marriage, love, & even individual identity become fragile & threaten to collapse.

Titus & John Presnall talk about Brian De Palma's most famous horror movie, Carrie, 1976, adapting Stephen King's debut novel. We're in important ways rehearsing the '70s as a society, so it's worth thinking about the stories that were intended as warnings at the time about the great changes in society, especially in the '60s. Carrie, especially in its conclusion, is a remarkably clever view of Am...

Titus & Scot Bertram talk about Dirty Harry, whose 50th an. in 2021 went largely unnoticed--the virtues of the character & of the story are now embarrassing to elites & perhaps to many other people--the criticism of society offered by the artists, however, is more timely than we could possibly wish & deserves attention!

Titus & Flagg Taylor talk about the Oscar-nominated Czech movie Divided we fall, a somewhat comic drama about survival & salvation in Bohemia in WWII, or the character of a people caught between Nazis & Soviets.

Titus & John Presnall talk about Brian De Palma's The Fury, a horror about the deep state, about the idealism of education (brain powers) & globalization (the UN) turning into espionage, experiments on people, & terrifying violence. At the point America runs the world, the family is most endangered.

Titus & Sebastian discuss Paolo Sorrentino's most famous movie, Oscar-winner La Grande Bellezza, a worthy heir to Fellini as an examination of European decadence & the problem of nihilism in the midst of the most celebrated civilization, in Rome.

Titus is interviewed by Scot Bertram of Hillsdale--the subject is Bruce Willis's career, the blue collar action movie, the citizen-hero, & all the ways in which these movies were prescient about political problems, the vulnerability of American society, & the corruption of moral virtue by glamour or celebrity worship or entertainment.

Titus & Flagg Taylor discuss The Teacher, a Czech movie set in Slovakia in the last years of communism, the true story of the moral corruption of a small community where ideology & privilege blight the possibility of a decent life & of the parents' hope of restoring morality through the school, for the sake of the children.

Titus & Sebastian Edoardo di Giovanni praise Sorrentino's The Hand Of God (E Stata La Mano Di Dio), the only Oscar-nominated movie that can plausibly be compared to great cinema, as Sorrentino is the only director who can be compared to a master, & who continues the tradition of Italian cinema. We talk about Naples & Italy, the ages of Rome & the future of art, the nation, & faith. We also talk ab...