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
February 27, 2025
In 1930, Winston Churchill was heading into the worst part of his political career, doomed to criticize his party’s leadership on foreign affairs only to be ignored, marginalized, disdained. At the same time, he was fast approaching his greatest achievement as a writer, the biography of the ancestor who founded his family, John Churchill,
Marlborough: His Life and Times, which would occupy him throughout the decade we call “the wilderness years.”
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January 21, 2025
On January 16, we lost David Lynch, at age 78, just shy of his January 20 birthday. That would be January 20, 1946. Lynch was a Baby Boomer. A child of ’50s America.
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December 05, 2024
Just before Thanksgiving, writer-director Jim Abrahams died at the age of 80. He was the A in ZAZ—the most prolific comedic team of the 1980s, the Zs being his school friends, the Zucker brothers, David and Jerry.
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October 18, 2024
There’s never been a major Reagan movie until 2024. Yet there’s a need for such storytelling. The most important president of the 20th century after FDR is in danger of being forgotten with the change of generations, of political conflicts, and even of technology.
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September 27, 2024
I started watching
Bad Monkey, the latest Apple TV+ series, one of the funnier things on offer this year, for two reasons. First, I like Vince Vaughn a lot. He was clever in his 2000s persona in comedies with Will Ferrell and Owen Wilson:
Old School (2003),
Dodgeball (2004),
Wedding Crashers (2005).
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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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