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In the fall of 2000, I taught an adult education class entitled Philosophy on Film, where we discussed The Matrix, American Beauty, Ground Hog Day, Network, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Gattaca, and Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Pulp Fiction in Czech

Trevor Lynch

7,661 words

English original here

Pulp Fiction Quentina Tarantina se řadí k mým nejoblíbenějším filmům. Nechtěl jsem, aby se mi líbil – původně jsem na něj dokonce ani nechtěl jít. Podle všeho co jsem o něm slyšel, jsem film měl za naprosto nihilistický a dosti odpudivý počin. Pak ale někdo na večírku popsal Pulp Fiction jako film o „velikosti duše na konci historie“, což mě zaujalo, protože jsem zrovna asi po tisící pročítal Platónovu Ústavu – Read more …

Published: March 18, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, hedonism, in Czech, in translation, movie reviews, North American New Right, philosophy, Plato, postmodernism, Quentin Tarantino, reprints | Leave a comment

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Ten Favorite Films

Trevor Lynch

1,520 words

Author’s Note:

The following text is a scrap rescued from obscurity and buffed up a bit. In 2002, a reader of VNN suggested that the site’s movie reviewers post their “Ten Best” lists. I found it impossible to settle on just ten best films. So I decided to produce a “Favorites” list instead. I came up with more than thirty movies. These are films I like to re-watch and show to my friends. I think the list includes some of the best films ever made, Read more …

Published: March 7, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock, Blue Velvet, David Lynch, movie reviews, Network, North American New Right, Paddy Chayevsky, Quentin Tarantino, reprints, Sidney Lumet, The Birds, the Jewish question, The Lord of the Rings, Trevor Lynch | 38 Responses

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Pulp Fiction, Part 2

Trevor Lynch

3,817 words

Part 2 of 2

Read Part 1 here

The Gold Watch

We first encounter boxer Butch Coolidge at the beginning of Part 3, “Vincent Vega and Marsellus Wallace’s Wife.” The setting is a tittie bar owned by Marsellus Wallace. Read more …

Published: July 6, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexandre Kojève, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. W. F. Hegel, hedonism, honor, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, postmodernism, Quentin Tarantino, warrior ethics | 15 Responses

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Pulp Fiction

Trevor Lynch

8,354 words

Parts 1 & 2; Czech translation here

Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction is one of my favorite movies. I didn’t want to like it. I didn’t even want to see it. Everything I’d heard made me think it would be thoroughly nihilistic and quite unpleasant. But then someone at a party described Pulp Fiction as a movie about “greatness of soul at the end of history,” and that caught my attention, Read more …