Titus & Ryan Shinkel discuss David Lynch's Blue velvet, a movie about suburbia & the city, a boy growing up to be a man by facing evil, & the predicament of American freedom, which might mean ignoring evil or embracing it...

ACF Critic Series

ACF Critic Series #52 Blue Velvet

Titus & Ryan Shinkel discuss Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune, science fiction & fantasy, modern rationalism & imperial history, mid-century America & the young men who made the story the greatest success in its genre for three generatons.

ACF Critic Series #58 Herbert's Dune

Titus & Ryan Shinkel continue their series on Dune with David Lynch's ambitous attempt to create out of Frank Herbert's galactic empire politics a moral fable about a young man coming of age.

Critic Series #59 Lynch Dune

Titus & Ryan Shinkel complete their discussion of Dune with the first very successful adaptation, Denis Villeneuve two movies. We look at the story to understand its success with audiences, especially young men, but also the director's interest, especially reviving the skepticism of manly heroism that defined Herbert's novel.

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