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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 (more…)
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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).
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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. (more…)
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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. (more…)
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Quintillian’s “The Future Is White” has been made into a video by VertigoPolitix
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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, (more…)
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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] (more…)
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Nowadays, any opinion regarding Batman cannot ignore the prime importance of Christopher Nolan’s trilogy.
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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 – (more…)
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] (more…)
Tor Johnson in The Beast of Yucca Flats.
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The Coleman Francis Trilogy:
The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961),
The Skydivers (1963),
Red Zone Cuba (1966; aka Night Train to Mundo Fine) (more…)
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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. (more…)