Barry Lyndon
The Search for Meaning Without A Father
“A boy has a lot to learn in his journey to become a man and he becomes a man only through the active intervention of his father and the fellowship...
Trump wants to build in D.C. an outdoor statue garden, one that would presumably be a regular tourist stop, along with the Lincoln Memorial and the like. So far, the White House says:
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Tiberius, the Roman emperor of darkest fame, retired to the island of Capri. In the month of the heat wave, when the Dog constellation is at its zenith and Sirius shines brightly, the emperor ordered a...
From The Telegraph: Two previous eras of black supremacist ideology -- the late 1960s and the early 1990s -- both came a-cropper when they got too many Jews peeved at black anti-Semitism. For example,...
Comedy giant (e.g., The Dick Van Dyke Show) Carl Reiner is dead at 98. Unfortunately, this clip ends before Carl Reiner's funniest moment in Ocean's Twelve: which is when the Bruce Willis, playing movie...
Like most Westerners, I got to know Akira Kurosawa through his classic samurai films: Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Kagemusha, and Ran. Thus I was surprised to...
Editor’s Note: American Renaissance first published this column by Paul Kersey in February of 2019. This weekend, the push to rename John Wayne Airport has been renewed, and in light of recent events,...
The Criterion Collection has spent decades earning its reputation as the “go to” source for foreign, experimental, silent, and under-appreciated films. From time to time, it publishes “top...
The Big Lebowski
The film is set in 1991, when the United States was preparing to enter the Gulf War “with Saddam and the Iraqis”, while it was still wrestling with the legacy of Vietnam and the...
From my Taki’s Magazine column last summer:
1619: Founding Fallacies
Steve Sailer
August 21, 2019
Last week, Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times, informed his staffers...
When I saw Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, I was convinced that David Lynch is an essentially conservative and religious filmmaker, with a populist and mystical bent. Arguing that thesis was an uphill battle...
What’s philosophical about Fight Club? Fight Club belongs alongside Network and Pulp Fiction in an End of History film festival, because it beautifully illustrates ideas about human nature, history,...
The Blood of a Poet
“I am rather surprised whenever I hear people chatter on about poetry in cinematography, the fantastic in cinematography and, particularly, ‘escapism’, a fashionable term...
Twelve Monkeys (1995) is Terry Gilliam’s last great movie. It is a masterful work of dystopian science fiction, with a highly imaginative plot, a tight and literate script, fantastic steampunkish...
Gran Torino, screenplay by Nick Schenk, produced, directed, and starring Clint Eastwood, Warner Brothers Pictures DVD, 2008, 116 minutes, Rated R.
Clint Eastwood has starred in many memorable films...
GSTAAD—The staff is back and all is well, as they used to say long ago in faraway places. The gardener and the cleaner are Portuguese, and they greet me with their inherent dignity from afar. The...
In a heartening sign, a number of counties in Pennsylvania have chosen to defy Gov. Tom Wolf’s shutdown order. The Beaver County Board of Commissioners announced on May 8 that the District Attorney...
Apocalypse Now
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing...
There is a fairly typical formula for the Hollywood male hero. He should be strong, handsome, and courageous, with a devil-may-care desire for the dangerous. He should be intelligent and tough —...
By the end of the century, there could be more Africans than Asians; Africa could actually have the largest population of any continent. Here’s a hint at what that future could be...
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