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...
In a recent bombshell report by Business Insider, Whole Foods, Inc. was revealed to have a “racial diversity” monitoring program overlooking its 500-plus stores in an effort to tamp down potential...
Written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, Network (1976) is a sardonic, dark-comic satire of America at the very moment that its trajectory of decline became apparent (to perceptive eyes,...
After Pearl Harbor, FDR declared that his role of “Dr. New Deal” had been superseded, replaced by his new role, “Dr. Win the War.” Tuesday, President Donald Trump signaled that,...
Not necessarily happy, sad, good, or bad, here are five films certain to give whites something to chew on as we continue to languish in quarantine.
Nashville (1975)
The exact “point”...
From The Economist:
Would most covid-19 victims have died soon, without the virus?
A new study suggests not
May 2nd 2020 edition
… However, a study by researchers from a group of Scottish...
Barton Fink
The Importance of Authentic Writers
Joel and Ethan Coen did not always enjoy the success and acclaim that they have today. While their early films garnered minimal attention, they never...
Gattaca (1997) is a dystopian science fiction movie set sometime in the mid-21st century. Mankind is doing a lot of manned space exploration. Genetic engineering and zygote selection have eliminated major...
The front page of the New York Post on the 20th of April, 2020, said it all: a large crowd in front of a Brooklyn barbershop being dispersed by police after a riotous party. There was no social distancing,...
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