ACFmovie podcast

Titus & Felix discuss Predator, on its 30th anniversary this June. This was John McTiernan's first studio movie, & is an excellent study of varieties of manliness faced with a kind of natural horror. Seven men descend into the jungle, then the jungle begins to swallow them up, one by one.

Titus & Eric Cook discuss Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho--the conflict of innocence & respectability playing out against modern liberation. In post-war prosperity, people get a sense of the horror lying beyond the city--the ancient Biblical-Greek tragedy identification of the home as the place of tragedy & the modern discovery of meaningless crimes of passion. Redemption collapses into justice, justice into a search for truth. Society, the law / the police, & the modern science of psychiatry doom innocence by ignoring the problem of evil. Biblical stories & Renaissance art are in conflict.

Titus & Flagg Taylor discuss Gran Torino & Clint Eastwood's last great character, Walt Kowalski, the old Polish Catholic Korean War veteran who becomes the hero America needs.

Titus & Felix discuss Alien: Covenant. Ridley Scott sets up his story and explains the elusive villain, David, by a series of works of art, a music piece by Wagner, a painting by Piero della Francesca, and others. In this podcast the sophisticated references are analyzed, as well as the relationship between the human maker of technology and his technological creation.

Titus & Felix discuss Ridley's Scott's Alien & his legacy in the introductory movie podcast of the American Cinema Foundation, bringing together the rebooted Alien and Blade Runner franchises through robots / synthetic humans , the original alien movie & how horror came to science fiction movies.