ACFmovie podcast Titus Techera

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.