ACFmovie podcast

Nov 25 2024 242 ep. 56 mins 251

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Pomocon 48 Heather Mac Donald

Nov 25 2024 67 mins

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.

Critic Series 61 Whit Stillman

Sep 20 2024 74 mins

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

ACF Critic Series #60 Villeneuve's Dune

Jun 24 2024 53 mins

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.

Critic Series #59 Lynch Dune

Jun 18 2024 68 mins

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.

ACF Critic Series #58 Herbert's Dune

Jun 13 2024 47 mins

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.

PoMoCon #47 The Unprotected Class

May 10 2024 55 mins

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.

PoMoCon #46 Montesquieu

Mar 29 2024 56 mins

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

ACF Europe #24 The Leopard

Mar 23 2024 44 mins

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.

ACF Europe #23 Young Pope

Nov 09 2023 66 mins

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!

ACF Critic Series #57 Hail Caesar

Oct 19 2023 54 mins

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.