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ACF Masters #13 Birth Of A Nation Sep 29, 2021

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Titus & Eric Cook of SPEAKING ABOUT SILENTS begin a series on the great achievements of D.W. Griffith, America's first visionary director, a self-made artist, entrepreneur, & aspiring prophet. We talk about The Birth of a Nation, a wonderful picture that's also morally repellant--from the beginning, cinema was powerful & dangerous! Artistic genius in the cause of injustice, animated by a philanthropic desire to bring everyone together! History & lost cause propaganda. Progressive racism, pacifist cruelty! Paradoxes & drama!

ACF PoMoCon #38 Pierre Manent, Metamorphoses Of The City Sep 25, 2021

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Titus & Paul Seaton & Carl Eric Scott complete our overview of the work of the greatest living French thinker, Pierre Manent,.with special attention to his book, The Metamorphoses Of The City. We talk political philosophy & history, & what it means to be a post-modern conservative.

ACF Critic #47 Cinema After 9/11 Sep 18, 2021

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Titus & Telly Davidson talk about the effect of 9/11 on cinema & TV: The darkening of the mood of 21st c. cinema, fantasy as 9/11 reenactment, the absence of great directors in the national memory of 9/11, the difficulty of dramatizing the event & the demeaning ways it's treated out of sentimentality, & finally the madness of the post 9/11 espionage & war shows.

ACF Middlebrow #39 World Trade Center Sep 10, 2021

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Titus talks about Oliver Stone's most unexpected, most patriotic movie, WTC

ACF Critic #46 Green Knight Sep 04, 2021

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Titus & Justin Lee & Dave Woods talk about David Lowery's Arthurian tale, The Green Knight, a reflection on mythical decadence & what it might mean for the young to become men. The movie gives you the confrontation of pagan heroism & Christian faith, of ancient & modern ideas, of fear of death & fear of life.

ACF Middlebrow #38 Master And Commander Aug 25, 2021

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Titus & Peter Robinson & John Yoo talk about Master & Commander, the Peter Weir seafaring adventure movie, about the Aubrey-Maturin novels on which it was based, about the charm of military adventures & the series we've been reading. Also, we talk about the detective & lawyer novel series & TV shows--Bosch, Lincoln Lawyer--that fascinate us & which will be our next podcast.

ACF Critic #45 Noah Millman, Kazuo Ishiguro Aug 20, 2021

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Titus & Noah Millman talk about Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro's novels--The Remains Of The Day, Never Let Me Go, Klara & The Sun. All three are about transformations in society & in the soul, the outsourcing of humanity from masters to servants or from humans to robots, the jeopardizing of human longing or love, both through technology & in other ways.

ACF PoMoCon #37 On Pierre Manent Aug 13, 2021

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Titus, Carl Eric Scott, and Paul Seaton introduce a series of podcasts on the greatest living French thinker, Pierre Manent, a Catholic Straussian, a critic of liberalism & defender of the democratic nation-state, a political theorist. We will acquaint you with the man’s thought, his questions in political philosophy, & some of his books.

ACF Middlebrow 37 Barcelona Aug 06, 2021

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Titus & Sam Goldman talk about Whit Stillman's Barcelona, a story of Americans & Europeans, of two young men looking for love, as well as for manliness, responsibility, adulthood, service, at the point where a vibrant & lawless democracy sweeps such ideals from society! A romantic comedy about how to be an American!

ACF PoMoCon #36 Michael Anton On Spiritual Warfare Jul 30, 2021

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Titus & Mike Anton talk about Machiavelli's republicanism, his fighting spirit, his education for rash young men, & the attempt to educate the very online right away from extremism, toward political success.

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