Plato predicted the postmodern predicament in his allegory of the cave.
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Police shot a black man dead after he’d lunged at an officer with a large kitchen knife in the once-unspoiled northern California town of Crescent City on August 25. (more…)
Georg Gyssling and Leni Riefenstahl
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Over the last few years, there has been some controversy about the influence of China over Hollywood. The claim is not that China is secretly controlling Hollywood, as the Alex Jones types have been insisting, but that Hollywood has been increasingly tailoring their films to meet the approval of the Chinese government in order to gain access to the massive Chinese market. Most commentators, especially liberal ones, consider this a bad thing. (more…)
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Down these mean streets, a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. (more…)
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James J. O’Meara
Passing the Buck: Coleman Francis and Other Cinematic Metaphysicians
Melbourne: Manticore Press, 2021
Imagine going thirty, forty, fifty, or even sixty years of your life without comprehending the dizzying implications of how some movies, typically — and often charitably — understood to be cringingly awful, actually serve as thaumaturgic runes which reveal glimpses of the painful, beautiful Truth behind this swiftly degenerating stage of Kali Yuga. (more…)
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To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I grew up in the final years of the Cold War. If you aren’t old enough to remember the Cold War, let me tell you that it was a trip.
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Inspired by Boccaccio’s 14th century classic, the DECAMERON Film Festival has invited an exciting lineup of guests to discuss one film each in a series of livestreams on the Guide to Kulchur YouTube channel, starting Saturday, April 11, and ending on May 10. (more…)
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Eilish. Billie Eilish.
Never afraid to wring every drop of money out of a pop sensation, this is who the film industry is having sing the theme to the new James Bond film, No Time to Die. The media is billing this interestingly; the New York Times covered the song with glowing praise and a mention of Eilish being the youngest person to ever record a Bond theme. (more…)
Dearden and his clapper.
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For decades now, I’ve been waiting for someone to package an oversized picture book called The Films of Basil Dearden. The 1970s would have been a good time for that, since Dearden died in ’71 (car accident), and this mid-rank British director was in need of appreciation. (more…)
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Knives Out, Rian Johnson’s much-hyped addition to the mystery genre, is a forgettable, self-indulgent film whose flashes of competence are incapable of redeeming its trite plot, pathetically unfunny script, and aggressive commitment to political correctness.
The film has all the trappings of a classic murder mystery in the style of Agatha Christie or Dorothy L. Sayers. A wealthy patriarch, Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer, in remarkably good form at 90) is found dead in his mansion after celebrating his 85th birthday (more…)
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Fróði Midjord is joined by Survive the Jive once more in a new episode of Guide to Kulchur, where they discuss Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse, (more…)
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Die Geschichte hat uns gelehrt, daß die grundlegendsten Notwendigkeiten für die Existenz einer gesunden und fortschrittlichen weißen Gesellschaft in der rassischen Qualität ihrer Mitglieder und in einem Moralkodex oder Wertesystem bestehen, das diese Qualität ergänzt und steigert. (more…)
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GJ: Pourriez-vous nous donner une brève autobiographie et nous dire comment vous vous êtes impliqué dans le Nationalisme Blanc ?
Harold Covington: Je suis né à Burlington, Caroline du Nord, en 1953. J’ai reçu ma première dose de réalité raciale à l’âge de 15 ans quand on me jeta dans un lycée [racialement] intégré, à Chapel Hill, NC qui était mauvais selon les standards de l’époque (1968) mais qui bien sûr était un jardin d’enfant comparé à la situation raciale qui existe dans nos écoles aujourd’hui. (more…)
„To boldly go, where no man has gone before“: der erste interrassische Kuß des Fernsehens in „Star Trek“
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Wenn die meisten Leute Weiße sehen, die mit Nichtweißen gehen, dann ist die sofortige Annahme die, daß mit dem Weißen etwas nicht stimmt. (more…)
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Boldly going where no man has gone before: television's first interracial kiss on "Star Trek"
When most people see whites dating non-whites, the immediate assumption is that there is something wrong with the white. Usually the defects are obvious. We know why a homely or obese white woman is sleeping with blacks or Mexicans: They are willing to overlook her faults because she is white. (more…)
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A Conversation about Race
A Film by Craig Bodeker
Denver: New Century Productions, 2008
When a white person awakens to our race’s peril, the first impulse–and the first duty–is to try to awaken others. But where to begin? (more…)
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David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence (New Line Cinema, 2005) is truly a superb movie, with a tight and economical script (the whole story is told in 96 minutes), a remarkably subtle and gripping performance by Viggo Mortensen (his best ever, in my opinion), excellent performances from the rest of the cast, and an unostentatiously elegant directorial style (unmarred by the middlebrow pretentiousness and penchant for the juvenile and repulsive that ruin most of Cronenberg’s movies).
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GJ: In A Conversation About Race, you explain how you came to be a believer in “white guilt.” How did you come to be a disbeliever? How did you become racially-conscious?
Craig Bodeker: By traveling. From my early experiences in the American South and in Hawaii. I was able to see firsthand the differences between racially homogeneous areas — like Minnesota in the 1970s, and these more racially diverse areas. (more…)
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Catherine Hardwicke’s movie Twilight is based on the first novel of a series by Stephenie Meyer. The books mostly appeal to young women, and the advertisements for the movie screamed “chick flick,” so I gave it a pass when it was released in theaters. But I admire Joss Whedon’s series Angel, about a vampire with a soul, and when I heard that Twilight centers around a similar character, I was intrigued enough to order it on DVD.
