Ranked #1
ACF Critic #4 Armond White
ACF Critic #4 Armond White
Titus & Armond White talk about the collapse of criticism & cultural journalism. The triumph of a shallow libera... Read more
5 Jan 2018
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49mins
Ranked #2
ACF Critic #35 Teachout, Chinatown
ACF Critic #35 Teachout, Chinatown
Titus & Terry Teachout discuss Chinatown, a story about the origins of Los Angeles & the doomed attempt to learn... Read more
30 Aug 2019
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54mins
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Titus & Terry Teachout discuss L.A. Confidential, another story about the origins of Los Angeles & the modern Am... Read more
7 Nov 2019
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51mins
Ranked #4
ACF Pomocon #7 Oliver Traldi, Intellectual Dark Web
ACF Pomocon #7 Oliver Traldi, Intellectual Dark Web
Titus & Oliver Traldi talk about the origins of the Intellectual Dark Web--online culture & wokeness in academia... Read more
21 Nov 2019
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1hr 1min
Ranked #5
ACF Masters #2 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
ACF Masters #2 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Titus & John Marini continue their series on John Ford's Westerns with a discussion of Liberty Valance, the story of... Read more
31 May 2018
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48mins
Ranked #6
ACF Critic #17 Paul Cantor
ACF Critic #17 Paul Cantor
Titus & Paul Cantor, America's eminent Shakespearian, talk movies, TV shows, & tragedy. From Godfather to Breaki... Read more
1 Nov 2018
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1hr 36mins
Ranked #7
ACF PoMoCon #11 Oliver Traldi, Three Waves Of Liberalism
ACF PoMoCon #11 Oliver Traldi, Three Waves Of Liberalism
Titus & Oliver Traldi talk about Progress, liberalism, the IDW, the transformation of the internet, generational pol... Read more
14 Mar 2020
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1hr 55mins
Ranked #8
ACF #5 The birds
ACF #5 The birds
Titus & Eric Cook discuss The birds as a companion piece to Psycho--what is it about modern women leaving town in a ... Read more
30 Jun 2017
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34mins
Ranked #9
ACF Critic #22 Armond White, Godard
ACF Critic #22 Armond White, Godard
Titus & Armond White discuss the great movies of 1968, especially the Godard pictures then first brought to America,... Read more
13 Feb 2019
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44mins
Ranked #10
ACF #13 Taxi Driver
ACF #13 Taxi Driver
Titus & John Presnall discuss another 70s movie about political crisis--Martin Scorsese & Paul Schrader's Taxi D... Read more
16 Mar 2018
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45mins
Ranked #11
ACF Masters #1 The Searchers
ACF Masters #1 The Searchers
Titus & John Marini talk about John Ford's The Searchers--the best Western for the discussion of the sacred law of t... Read more
24 May 2018
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56mins
Ranked #12
ACF PoMoCon #4 James Poulos, Digital vs. Elites
ACF PoMoCon #4 James Poulos, Digital vs. Elites
Titus & James Poulos, author of The Art of Being Free: How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us From Ourselves & Ex... Read more
20 Mar 2019
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55mins
Ranked #13
ACF Critic #21 Sonny Bunch, Watchmen
ACF Critic #21 Sonny Bunch, Watchmen
Titus & Sonny Bunch discuss Watchmen, the super-hero movie most dedicated to super-heroes, their tragic & all-Am... Read more
31 Jan 2019
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51mins
Ranked #14
ACF PoMoCon #5 Education
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Titus & Spotted Toad talk about education, the experience of the teacher, the crisis in public education & how t... Read more
7 Jun 2019
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50mins
Ranked #15
ACF Middlebrow #17 Jaws
ACF Middlebrow #17 Jaws
Titus & John Presnall discuss Steven Spielberg's career-making turn directing Jaws. We look at the New England towns... Read more
9 Mar 2018
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51mins
Ranked #16
ACF Critic #12 Teachout, Vertigo
ACF Critic #12 Teachout, Vertigo
Titus & Terry Teachout celebrate the ACF podcast's first anniversary! The celebrated critic, playwright, musician, j... Read more
7 Jun 2018
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49mins
Ranked #17
ACF PoMoCon #12 Plague Politics
ACF PoMoCon #12 Plague Politics
Titus & Pete Spiliakos talk about politics in the age of the plague--what's so insane about supply-side economics, w... Read more
3 Apr 2020
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1hr 13mins
Ranked #18
ACF Critic #9 Matt Zoller Seitz, Annihilation
ACF Critic #9 Matt Zoller Seitz, Annihilation
Titus & Matt Zoller Seitz, famed critic, discuss Alex Garland's Annihilation. We go through the beautiful & the ... Read more
17 Apr 2018
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48mins
Ranked #19
ACF Middlebrow #34 Die Hard Christmas
ACF Middlebrow #34 Die Hard Christmas
Titus & Chris Wolfe talk about our generation's Christmas movie--Die Hard, a story of an unlikely redeemer come in t... Read more
21 Dec 2019
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46mins
Ranked #20
ACF PoMoCon #9 Henry Olsen, Elections!
ACF PoMoCon #9 Henry Olsen, Elections!
Titus & Henry Olsen discuss the angry democracy of our times--very high turnout in elections, parties & politici... Read more
8 Dec 2019
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48mins