Titus Techera is the Executive Director of the American Cinema Foundation and a culture critic for think tanks including Liberty Fund and the Acton Institute. He teaches in the Manhattan Institute Logos Fellowship and is a Visiting Fellow at the Mattias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest.
Posts by Titus Techera
September 11, 2024
September 11 is not usually portrayed in cinema, perhaps as a sign of respect for the most shocking event in recent history. Perhaps it’s also because we do not know how to deal with terror.
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September 05, 2024
There are no writers left in America: no impressive novelist, no essayist who commands prestige and popularity. This is true of Britain, too. Now as never before, the great modern empires of liberalism and democracy seem to have nothing to say for themselves.
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August 08, 2024
This August 11 is the 10th anniversary of the death of Robin Williams, the most beloved comedian to come out of the new America unleashed by the ’60s, entertaining the country for more than 40 years through a number of changes in genre and medium.
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July 09, 2024
Jeff Nichols is a strange director. He makes movies about the forgotten Americans, the white working and lower classes of the Midwest, but it’s only European festivals that really take an interest.
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May 24, 2024
Memorial Day was first instituted in the aftermath of the Civil War, to appease the suffering caused by the terrible bloodshed of that conflict, in which almost as many men died as in the wars of the 20th century combined.
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April 25, 2024
Patricia Highsmith’s novels have a long history in Hollywood. Her debut,
Strangers on a Train, was adapted in 1951 by Hitchcock into a remarkable thriller about corruption among the wealthy and the weaknesses of aspiring to success, with D.C.
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April 09, 2024
Tom Hanks was the moral conscience of America in the ’90s, so far as Hollywood was concerned, and audiences largely concurred, because he’s like a new Jimmy Stewart: he exudes moral integrity and childlike innocence.
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March 08, 2024
Jonathan Glazer has been nominated for two Oscars, as writer and director of
The Zone of Interest, a movie about Nazis that was also nominated for Best Picture and Best International Film.
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February 08, 2024
Michael Mann is famous for crime dramas like
Thief (1981),
Heat (1995), and
Collateral (2004) that suggest that only criminals can be free, since the rest of us are constantly bossed around.
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January 05, 2024
My favorite back-to-school reading this year has been Alex Priou’s
Musings on Plato’s Symposium. I hurry to add that I’ve long been out of school, but I did pick up the habit of reading there, and what’s more American than lifelong learning?
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