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
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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December 22, 2023
Every Christmas, I try to write about Christmas movies, especially about old Hollywood, because the best directors at the time considered it worthwhile to make movies that would chastise and cheer up the nation, indeed remind people of the spirit of Christmas and thus try to fit Christianity into the new entertainment that dominated the American imagination.
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November 07, 2023
On the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Yom Kippur War, Hamas launched an attack on Israel, killing more than 1,500 people and taking hostages, committing, filming, and publicizing on social media acts of terror that the citizens of democracies are simply unprepared to watch or understand.
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October 11, 2023
Conservatism doesn’t really produce or nurture writers nowadays. The notable exception in the past couple of generations is Tom Wolfe, who died in 2018. Wolfe was universally beloved. He sold millions of copies of his various writings.
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September 20, 2023
The Wheel of Time is a series of 14 novels by Robert Jordan, which debuted in 1990. You may never have heard of them, but they’ve sold 100 million copies and add up to more than 4 million words.
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August 23, 2023
Miloš Forman was an incredibly famous director in the 1980s, when his
Amadeus (1984) won eight Oscars out of 11 nominations, and
Ragtime (1981) also received eight nominations, period pieces about music’s potential for social transformation, overcoming prejudices or conventions, and making a new world.
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July 28, 2023
When I was a college boy, one of my history professors argued persuasively, if self-interestedly, that pink was the medieval European color of manliness—it was the color of living flesh, of manly health.
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July 21, 2023
The last major director we have is Christopher Nolan. As you watch his movies, you think about what it means for there to be masters of the art: people who seem to know the tools of the art so well that they are in complete control of what they’re doing, yet when you see their work, you can hardly tell how they did it.
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