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If movies can have previews, why can’t movie critics release “pre-reviews”? I ask because September 9th was the release date of the first trailer for the first half of Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune.

Dune is one of the most-anticipated movies of 2020. Trailers can build up a lot of excitement for a film, but they are immediately forgotten when the movie actually appears. Read more …

Published: September 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Blacks, Denis Villeneuve, Dune, Frank Herbert, movie reviews, North American New Right, race replacement, reprints, trailers, white dispossession | 23 Responses

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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Trevor Lynch

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Yukio Mishima’s 1963 novel The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is one of his darkest works. Set in post-War Yokohama, it is the story of Fusako Kuroda, a thirty-three-year-old widow who runs a boutique selling Western luxury goods, and her thirteen-year-old son Noboru Kuroda. (See Alex Graham’s discussion of the novel here.)

Fusako’s world is entirely feminine, bourgeois, modern, and Western. She is also deeply lonely. Then she meets Ryuji Tsukazaki, the second-mate on a steamship. Read more …

Published: September 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, bourgeois society, class, England, gender, Japan, modernity, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints, sex, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, thumos, tradition, Yukio Mishima | 3 Responses

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Tenet

Trevor Lynch

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Christopher Nolan is one of my favorite living filmmakers. Tenet is Nolan’s new sci-fi espionage thriller. Tenet is highly imaginative and visually striking, filmed on locations in Denmark, Estonia, India, Italy, Norway, and the UK. Its cast includes Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh.

But Tenet is not Nolan’s best work, for two main reasons. Read more …

Published: August 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christopher Nolan, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints, science fiction, Tenet, time travel | 19 Responses

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Africa Addio

Trevor Lynch

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Africa Addio (Goodbye Africa) (1966), co-directed, co-edited, and co-authored by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi of Mondo Cane fame, is a must-see red-pill documentary for race-realists. Filmed between 1963 and 1965 in Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar, Rwanda, Angola, the Belgian Congo, and South Africa, Africa Addio chronicles the exit of the British and Belgian colonial powers from Africa, as well as the attempts of the Portuguese and South Africa whites to hold on. Read more …

Published: August 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Africa, Africa Addio, Angola, articles, civilization, colonialism, Franco Prosperi, globalism, Gualtiero Jacopetti, imperialism, Kenya, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanganyika, the Congo, violence, Zanzibar | 13 Responses

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American Pimp

Trevor Lynch

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American Pimp is a 1999 documentary directed by the Hughes Brothers, the half-black, half-Armenian twins who also directed Menace II Society and Dead Presidents. American Pimp has fallen into obscurity and is now hard to find. But it deserves to be better-known, especially among race-realists. American Pimp is just under 90 minutes. It consists primarily of interviews with black pimps and their prostitutes. Read more …

Published: August 4, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American Pimp, articles, black criminality, Blacks in America, blaxploitation, movie reviews, North American New Right, pimps, prostitution, reprints, sociopathy, the Hughes Brothers | 14 Responses

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Storytelling

Trevor Lynch

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Storytelling (2001) is the most politically incorrect movie I have ever seen. Indeed, it is so un-PC that it could never have been made today.

Director Todd Solondz is a really sick guy. His films Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, Palindromes, and Life During Wartime can justly be accused of fixating on bullying, rape, pedophilia, abortion, suicide, and murder. Read more …

Published: July 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, feminism, Jews in the media, lying, movie reviews, North American New Right, political correctness, postmodernism, reprints, satire, sex, victimhood | 6 Responses

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High & Low

Trevor Lynch

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Like most Westerners, I got to know Akira Kurosawa through his classic samurai films: Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Kagemusha, and Ran. Thus I was surprised to discover that fully half of his thirty films are actually set in contemporary Japan over the stretch of Kurosawa’s long lifetime (1910–1998). High and Low (1963) is one of the best of these films, along with Drunken Angel, Stray Dog, and Ikiru. Read more …

Published: July 1, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Akira Kurosawa, aristocracy, articles, capitalism, class conflict, feudalism, honor, Japan, justice, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints, virtue | 8 Responses

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The Straight Story

Trevor Lynch

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When I saw Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, I was convinced that David Lynch is an essentially conservative and religious filmmaker, with a populist and mystical bent. Arguing that thesis was an uphill battle as his work got increasingly dark in the nineties. Many people interpreted Lynch’s portrayals of quirky, salt-of-the-Earth white Americans as parody, his mysticism as arbitrary weirdness, and his depictions of evil and violence as inconsistent with having a conservative and religious moral center. Read more …

Published: June 19, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Americana, articles, David Lynch, Disney, family, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints, the Midwest, The Straight Story | 3 Responses

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Fight Club

Trevor Lynch

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Note: These are notes for a lecture on Fight Club given on October 25, 2000 in an adult education course called “Philosophy on Film.” For a fuller interpretation of Fight Club, see Jef Costello’s “Fight Club as Holy Writ.”

What’s philosophical about Fight Club? Fight Club belongs alongside Network and Pulp Fiction in an End of History film festival, Read more …

Published: June 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, conflict, end of history, Fight Club, Freidrich Nietzsche, Hegelian dialectics, irony, modernity, movie reviews, North American New Right, on Nietzsche, reprints, the Männerbund, thumos | 7 Responses

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Twelve Monkeys

Trevor Lynch

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Twelve Monkeys (1995) is Terry Gilliam’s last great movie. It is a masterful work of dystopian science fiction, with a highly imaginative plot, a tight and literate script, fantastic steampunkish sets and props, and compelling performances from Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, and Madeleine Stowe. Gilliam is usually far too ironic and self-conscious to deliver emotionally satisfying work. But in Twelve Monkeys, we see stylistic elements and themes from earlier Gilliam films Read more …

Published: June 1, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, environmentalism, movie reviews, North American New Right, psychology, reprints | 3 Responses

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Network:
A Populist Classic

Trevor Lynch

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Written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, Network (1976) is a sardonic, dark-comic satire of America at the very moment that its trajectory of decline became apparent (to perceptive eyes, at least).

Network has an outstanding script and incandescent performances, which were duly recognized. Chayefsky won the Oscar for Best Screenplay. Peter Finch won the Oscar for Best Actor Read more …

Published: May 15, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged alienation, articles, atomization, complacency, cynicism, media, movie reviews, nationalism, Network, North American New Right, populism, reprints, satire, Sidney Lumet, television | 3 Responses

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Beautiful, But Dumb:
Gattaca

Trevor Lynch

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Gattaca (1997) is a dystopian science fiction movie set sometime in the mid-21st century. Mankind is doing a lot of manned space exploration. Genetic engineering and zygote selection have eliminated major and minor genetic problems, from mental illness to baldness. As a smiling black man who works as a eugenics counselor explains to a pair of prospective parents, the children produced by these techniques “are still you, just the best of you.” Read more …

Published: April 29, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, determinism, dysgenics, eugenics, free will, Gattaca, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints, science fiction, totalitarianism | 8 Responses

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Interstellar

Trevor Lynch

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In 2010, Christopher Nolan released one of the greatest science fiction films of all time: Inception. Inception is stunningly artful and imaginative, as well as dramatically gripping and emotionally powerful. (See my review here.)

Then, four years later, Nolan released Interstellar, which is almost as good. It may seem silly not to want to “spoil” a film that has been out for six years, but if you haven’t seen it, I want you to see it. Read more …

Published: April 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Christopher Nolan, Interstellar, movie reviews, North American New Right, physics, reprints, science fiction | 8 Responses

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Wise Blood

Trevor Lynch

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John Huston’s Wise Blood (1979) is one of his lesser-known films, but it deserves a wider audience. Based on Flannery O’Connor’s 1952 novel of the same name, Wise Blood is the most faithful screen adaptation I have ever seen, largely because the screenwriter truly loved and understood the source material. The script was written by Benedict Fitzgerald, who knew Flannery O’Connor from childhood. Read more …

Published: March 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America in the 1970s, articles, Catholicism, Christianity, Flannery O'Connor, John Huston, materialism, movie reviews, North American New Right, religion, reprints, satire, the South | 5 Responses

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The Talented Mr. Ripley & Purple Noon

Trevor Lynch

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Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) has been one of my favorite films since I saw it on the big screen while living in darkest Atlanta. A few years later, post-red pill, I bought the DVD and was struck anew at the brilliance of the script, performances, and direction. But I was also struck by the sheer whiteness of this film, which is set in 1958 and 1959 in New York City and Italy (Rome, Venice, the Bay of Naples). There’s nothing new about the idea of “escapist” entertainment. Read more …

Published: March 6, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, crime dramas, Italy, movie reviews, reprints, sociopathy, the 1960s | 19 Responses

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The Gentlemen

Trevor Lynch

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Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen is his best movie since his first two feature films, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000), largely because it is a gentrified return to their crime caper format.

Ritchie at his best is a kind of British Quentin Tarantino, with his underworld settings, non-linear storytelling, colorful and witty dialogue, and gleeful political incorrectness Read more …

Published: February 24, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints | 2 Responses

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Ad Astra

Trevor Lynch

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Ad Astra (2019), starring Brad Pitt and directed by James Gray, is the best science fiction movie since Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014). Like Interstellar, Ad Astra is visually striking and emotionally powerful, stimulating to both thought and imagination, and unfolds at a leisurely pace—all traits inviting comparisons to Kubrick and Tarkovsky, although I hasten to add that I found both Ad Astra and Interstellar so absorbing that my attention never wavered. Read more …

Published: January 23, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged atheism, Brad Pitt, North American New Right, reprints, science fiction, space exploration | 5 Responses

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Downton Abbey

Trevor Lynch

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Julian Fellowes’ Downton Abbey is an extremely popular British period drama, set in the years 1912 to 1926, which ran six seasons (the Brits call them series) on television and is now a feature film set in 1927.

I very much enjoyed the first two seasons of Downton Abbey. Like many Downton Abbey fans, I felt an intense nostalgia for a country I had never known: George V’s England, an overwhelmingly white, unapologetically Eurocentric society Read more …

Published: December 31, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints | 3 Responses

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Trevor Lynch

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In memory of Raven.

Even I didn’t expect Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker to be this bad. It is simply a terrible movie: derivative, incoherent, arbitrary, superficial, and deeply boring and uninvolving—despite, or maybe because of, the frenetic action sequences, dazzling duels, and effects so special they’ll leave carbon scoring on your eyeballs. Read more …

Published: December 22, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Disney, George Lucas, J. J. Abrams, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints, Star Wars | 21 Responses

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The Mandalorian

Trevor Lynch

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“Help us, Dave Filoni. You’re our only hope.”

On December 20th, J. J. “Death Star” Abrams and Disney Corp. will complete the destruction of the Star Wars saga that many of us have loved since childhood, while raking in untold millions by cynically exploiting nostalgia for the mythos they are desecrating. So pass the popcorn, because I’ll be right there, dear readers, to review it for you. Read more …

Published: December 13, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Akira Kurosawa, Disney, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints, Samurai, science fiction, Star Wars, westerns | 8 Responses

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Look Who’s Back

Trevor Lynch

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“Whenever there is a decline of righteousness, and the rise of unrighteousness, then I come back to teach dharma.”—Bhagavad Gita, Chapter IV, Verse 7

“Nobody can stay mad at Hitler forever.”—Look Who’s Back

“Death My Bride”
David Lynch’s Lost Highway

Trevor Lynch

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Lost Highway is probably not a lot of people’s favorite David Lynch film. I would rank it in the lower rungs of his canon. But it is still a masterful film that draws me back again and again.

The big question about Lost Highway is what actually happens. This movie has a plot that you can fully summarize without really spoiling it, because the meaning is never really given away. Read more …

Published: November 22, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged David Lynch, Faustian man, movie reviews, North American New Right, reprints, self-knowledge, This Mortal Coil | 8 Responses

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Trevor Lynch

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Blake Edwards’ 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s—loosely based on Truman Capote’s 1958 novel of the same name—stars Audrey Hepburn in her iconic role of Holly Golightly, a charming, flighty, feminine, haunted young woman trying to create a life—and an identity—in a gorgeous Technicolor New York City at what is arguably the peak of American civilization, just before the plunge.

Joker

Trevor Lynch

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Note: Contains Spoilers

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One of the great things about Heath Ledger’s Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is that he does not have an origin story. Read more …

Published: October 6, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Batman, Joker, Martin Scorsese, mental illness, movie reviews, North American New Right, podcasts, reprints, Robert de Niro | 42 Responses

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Eyes Wide Shut

Trevor Lynch

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The day Jeffrey Epstein turned up dead in a New York jail cell, I decided I needed to write something about Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Stanley Kubrick’s last and weakest movie.

Epstein has quickly faded from the headlines, so let me remind you briefly of who he was. Epstein was an American Jew who enjoyed immense wealth from unknown sources, hobnobbed with the global elite, including Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew, Read more …

Published: October 3, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged degeneracy, Jeffrey Epstein, movie reviews, North American New Right, pedophilia, rape, reprints, secret societies, Stanley Kubrick, the Jewish question | 43 Responses

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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Trevor Lynch

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Some of my best reviews are about Quentin Tarantino, but this won’t be one of them. Tarantino has gone from a director I loved (see my essay on Pulp Fiction), to a director I loved to hate (see my reviews of Kill Bill 1 and Inglourious Basterds), to a director I just hated (Django Unchained), to a director I just ignored.

Tarantino’s only great movie is Pulp Fiction, and at this point it is safe to declare that one a fluke. Read more …

Published: September 2, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, implicit whiteness, masculinity, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Quentin Tarantino | 12 Responses

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The Leopard

Trevor Lynch

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Luchino Visconti’s masterpiece is his 1963 historical epic The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, which actually refers to a smaller spotted wild cat, the serval, which is the heraldic animal of the princes of Salina in Sicily). Visconti’s film is a remarkably faithful adaptation of the 1958 novel of the same name by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. The Leopard became the best-selling Italian novel of all time, carrying off many critical laurels as well. Read more …

Published: August 27, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged aristocracy, articles, Italy, Luchino Visconti, monarchy, movie reviews, National Populism, North American New Right, originals | 5 Responses

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Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage

Trevor Lynch

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The Criterion Collection’s new Blu-ray of Blue Velvet contains 53 minutes of lost footage. Does this footage in any way alter my reading of the film’s psychological and political meaning? The short answer is no, but read on.

Blue Velvet was released as a two-hour film, but originally it was about two hours and fifty minutes long. The material Lynch removed is not raw footage that was never part of the film. Read more …

Published: August 13, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Blue Velvet, David Lynch, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

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Quiz Show

Trevor Lynch

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Robert Redford’s 1994 film Quiz Show tells the story of the Twenty-One game show scandal of the late 1950s. Featuring a superbly literate and psychologically subtle script and outstanding performances by Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield, John Turturro, and Rob Morrow, Quiz Show dramatizes important moral issues and explores the corrupting influence of television in American life.

Cabaret

Trevor Lynch

The Polish poster for the film

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Bob Fosse’s 1972 film Cabaret is supposed to be propaganda for Weimar decadence and against Nazi brutality. But the film utterly fails as propaganda insofar as it changes no minds. In fact, Cabaret is more akin to a diagnostic tool—like inkblot tests or gestalt images—for distinguishing between fundamentally different human types: people who love beauty versus people who love ugliness, people who love order versus people who love chaos, people who love health versus people who love decadence. Read more …