THE STARK TRUTH: THE MELBOURNE UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL

Robert Stark and Matthew Pegas talk to Affirmatve Right contributor and film director Richard Wolstencroft about the upcoming 19th Melbourne Underground Film Festival (Muff 19), which he runs.

Topics include Richard's founding of MUFF in 2000, Steve Bannon's documentary Trump@War, Lauren Southern's documentary about White genocide in South Africa Farmlands, and the festival's theme of radical free speech.

They also discuss Robert and Matthew’s film (((Supply))) about YouTube legend Luke Ford, which will debut at the festival.

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THE WEIMAR AESTHETIC OF FRITZ LANG

Metropolis: Lang’s most openly left-wing 
film, but also his most fascistic.

by Jake Bowyer

Sometime not long after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, Joseph Goebbles, the Reich Minister of Propaganda, approached a monocled Austrian with a proposition: make films for the Third Reich. The filmmaker, one Fritz Lang, had originally approached Herr Goebbles with another proposition about the lifting of the Nazi Party’s ban on his film The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933). Goebbles responded with: “The Fuhrer and I have seen your films and the Fuhrer made clear that ‘this is the man who will give us the National Socialist film.’”

TOD BROWNING: SHADOW FILMMAKER

Freaks one of Browning's oddball masterpieces

by Jake Bowyer

The city of Louisville is responsible for a lot of American whackos. While the city’s most famous offspring is the overhyped showboat and draft dodger Muhammad Ali, it also lays claim to gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson,  Birth of a Nation director D.W. Griffith, and early baseball hero Pete Browning. There must be something in the water!

KISSING OFF MISS MONEYPENNY

by Colin Liddell

The character of Miss Moneypenny, portrayed by Lois Maxwell in many of the Bond movies, was part of the successful formula of the movie franchise. The gentle sexual tension – forever unrequited – added a note of humour that helped to define and humanize Bond.

VANGUARD (13): PROJECT MAYHEM

The 13th of the Vanguard Podcasts. The original "triumvirate" of Richard Spencer, Andy Nowicki, and Colin Liddell, are joined by the legendary Jack Donovan to discuss the proto-Alt-Right cinematic masterpiece Fight Club (1999) and its themes of nihilism, anti-modernity, and paleo-masculinity. 

Originally uploaded on the original Alternative Right site on the 13th of January, 2013.

VANGUARD PODCAST (12): "RED PILL" STATE

The 12th of the Vanguard Podcasts. The original "triumvirate" of Richard Spencer, Andy Nowicki, and Colin Liddell, discuss two "paranoid" films that bookend the 1990s: They Live (1988) and The Matrix (1999). Topics of discussion include the "conspiratorial" impulse, the nature of reality and the virtual, trans-humanism, and anti-Semitism and the "power elite." Topics of discussion include the "conspiratorial" impulse, virtual reality, trans-humanism, anti-Semitism, and the "power elite."

Originally uploaded on the original Alternative Right site on the 6th of January, 2013.

THE ONCE AND FUTURE POLITICAL ANIMAL

by Ryan Andrews

The seemingly anachronistic ubiquity of smoking in Blade Runner 2049 may be intended as nothing more than a tribute to the neo-noir original, just like the Pan-Am and Atari billboards. But perhaps it also symbolizes something psychological about the society it depicts: the feeling that it has no reason to live. The replicants, of course, do not have souls or free will. They have no past, and, because they can not breed, no collective future. Meanwhile, the humans are staring down-the-barrel at their obsolescence as a species. Ensouled or not, the replicants are so much smarter and stronger, and so even if they lack the agency to conquer or destroy humanity, what is the point of going on?

DARK M. NIGHT, WHITE FLIGHT: “THE VILLAGE”

by Andy Nowicki

For all of the sound and fury attending Mel Gibson’s “Passion of the Christ” back in 2004, few of our trusted cultural nags bothered to complain about a film released later that year, one that, in the long run, has proven to be even more subversive of our age’s prescribed and rigidly enforced sensibilities.

SEEKING A NEW BEGINNING: MEL GIBSON'S "APOCALYPTO"

The following is a film review and analysis I composed for The Last Ditch in 2007. I am reposting it here to set the stage for my upcoming reconsideration of Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, to be published during Holy Week.

Rudy Youngblood as Jaguar Paw in Gibson's "Apocalypto"

by Andy Nowicki

Mel Gibson's latest movie, Apocalypto, is at the end of its run in theaters. Opening in early December, the film achieved a modest success, raking in nothing close to what The Passion of the Christ made, but still earning somewhere close to Braveheart's overall gross.What makes that modest success extraordinary is the fact that Gibson has essentially become a persona non grata in the film industry since his run-in with a Jewish policeman who arrested him for drunken driving in August 2006. If Passion didn't alienate Gibson from Hollywood's largely Jewish movers and shakers, including the distributors — the men who made Gibson rich and famous, and are now eager to unmake him — then his drunken anti-Semitic tirade on the occasion of his arrest, widely broadcast across the nation afterwards, surely did.

A REVIEW: HOBBIT 2: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG

by John Maelstrom

I suppose I should be used to it by now, but there are times I just hope beyond hope that I won't be let down again. Hollywood, you've left me bruised and spat upon too many times to count. Just give me my Tolkien unspoiled and I'll be good. Please!