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One of the delights of revisiting old movies after many years is finding out that you completely misread or misremembered certain scenes. Early on in the first part of Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia, we have the entry parades of the national teams. When the French team come by, they drag their flag in the dust – because, or so I assumed decades ago, these robust athletes were utterly disgusted with the new Popular Front government under the hapless Léon Blum Read more …

Published: August 22, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, fascist art, film, Leni Riefenstahl, North American New Right, originals, P. J. Collins | 11 Responses

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Guide to Kulchur
Episode 4: Starship Troopers

Counter-Currents Radio

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Counter-Currents contributor Guillaume Durocher joins Fróði Midjord on the latest episode of the new podcast series, Guide to Kulchur, to discuss Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 film Starship Troopers, which is based on a novel by renowned science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein and portrays a fascist future society embroiled in a war of extermination against a civilization of intelligent bugs. Both the book and the film reveal political insights that are not often seen in today’s popular culture. The episode is available on both YouTube and Spreaker (see below).

Hitler & Film

Alex Graham

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Bill Niven
Hitler and Film: The Führer’s Hidden Passion
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018

This book is a great companion to Frederic Spotts’ Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics. The only shortcoming of Spotts’ book was that it did not discuss Hitler’s interest in film and his involvement in the German film industry. This book does just that. Read more …

Published: August 27, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A. Graham, Adolf Hitler, book reviews, Fritz Lang, Leni Riefenstahl, North American New Right, originals | 8 Responses

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Zardoz: Natural Order Against the Left

David Yorkshire

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John Boorman’s films are implicitly white, as they address themes that pertain to people of white European descent, whether historical, philosophical, or mythical. For the latter, an example would be the film Excalibur that I recently reviewed. Zardoz is a film that addresses the philosophical. This is another of Boorman’s films that the critic Roger Ebert neither understands nor cares for – and I suspect more the latter, for the film is a biting satire directed at creamy bourgeois Leftists. Read more …

Published: April 4, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, David Yorkshire, feminism, Friedrich Nietzsche, liberalism, Mjolnir Magazine, North American New Right, reprints, utopianism | 2 Responses

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Now in Video!
The Future Is White

Quintilian

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Quintillian’s “The Future Is White” has been made into a video by VertigoPolitix

Published: August 31, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Christopher Nolan, Interstellar, Quintillian, science fiction, video of the day, videos | 8 Responses

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The Future Is White

Quintilian

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The Left is a dangerous consortium of perverts and violence-prone shallow thinkers, but it is also an assemblage of the ridiculous. There is something that is just very funny about a mestizo flaunting his illegal status during a television interview who is shocked when he is deported, Read more …

Published: August 28, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christopher Nolan, Interstellar, North American New Right, originals, Quintilian, science fiction | 23 Responses

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Looking for Pop

Peter D. Bredon

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Jef Costello
The Importance of James Bond & Other Essays
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2017

“Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call Poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?”[1]

“This guy can’t possibly live up to the song they wrote about him… probably just an accountant named Wallace.”[2] Read more …

Published: May 17, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Breaking Bad, Counter-Currents, Fight Club, James Bond, Jef Costello, masculinity, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Peter D. Bredon, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | 1 Response

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The League of Shadows:
The Path to Dark Enlightenment

Francesco Boco

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Nowadays, any opinion regarding Batman cannot ignore the prime importance of Christopher Nolan’s trilogy.

Coffee? I Like Coffee!:
The Metaphysical Cinema of Coleman Francis, Part Three

James J. O'Meara

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Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here; Part 2 here)

B refers to The Beast of Yucca Flats; S for The Skydivers; and R for Red Zone Cuba.

But Isn’t Griffin Evil?

But isn’t Griffin evil? How can he be enlightened?

Although Walter White and Hank Quinlan are also large men who commit bad deeds and come to similar falls – Read more …

Published: January 26, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Coleman Francis, James O'Meara, Mystery Science Theater, Night Train to Mundo Fine, North American New Right, originals, Red Zone Cuba, The Beast of Yucca Flats, The Skydivers | 2 Responses

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Coffee? I Like Coffee!:
The Metaphysical Cinema of Coleman Francis, Part Two

James J. O'Meara

Coleman Francis starring as Griffin in his self-directed Red Zone Cuba

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Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here)

B refers to The Beast of Yucca Flats; S for The Skydivers; and R for Red Zone Cuba.

No Dialogue Necessary: The Vision of Coleman Francis

“Coleman Francis had a vision. A dark vision. With cars.”[1] Read more …

Published: January 25, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Coleman Francis, James O'Meara, Mystery Science Theater, Night Train to Mundo Fine, North American New Right, originals, Red Zone Cuba, The Beast of Yucca Flats, The Skydivers | 8 Responses

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Coffee? I Like Coffee!:
The Metaphysical Cinema of Coleman Francis, Part One

James J. O'Meara

Tor Johnson in The Beast of Yucca Flats.

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Part 1 of 3

The Coleman Francis Trilogy:
The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961),
The Skydivers (1963),
Red Zone Cuba (1966; aka Night Train to Mundo Fine) Read more …

Published: January 24, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Coleman Francis, James O'Meara, Mystery Science Theater, Night Train to Mundo Fine, North American New Right, originals, Red Zone Cuba, The Beast of Yucca Flats, The Skydivers | 7 Responses

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The Lord of the Rings:
The Return of the Meme

Will Windsor

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We owe a great debt of gratitude to J. R. R. Tolkien, who embodied the medieval bardic tradition, and penned his epic tale in rebuke of mechanized modernity. I doubt even Tolkien could have predicted that some fifty years later, his story would look more like prophecy than fable. Then again, Tolkien probably sensed Europe had entered its twilight. The Great European Civil War of the twentieth century, which Tolkien fought in during its first phase, impressed upon him that modernity, with its unrelenting industry (capitalism) and hi-tech weaponry, was destroying the West. Read more …