America No Longer Capable of Defending Civilization

"...because America will no longer be capable of defending civilization. And of course this is in addition to the..."

April 3, 2006 Postmarks

Generation Wealth

Greed isn't good. But didn't we know that already?

"...we are now several decades into the decline of Western civilization (that Creem critic was right, you guys). I..."

Aug. 3, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Orlando

Freely adapted by writer-director Sally Potter from Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel, the movie attempts nothing less than the deconstruction of Western civilization's patriarchal underpinnings, with Tilda Swinton as the title character who appears in nearly every shot.

"...the movie attempts nothing less than the deconstruction of Western civilization's patriarchal underpinnings. Orlando falls somewhat short of the..."

Oct. 8, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Female Misbehavior

"...herself as one of the great intellects of all Western civilization. It becomes clear why it has been so..."

April 9, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What She Does Isn’t Secret

Punk rock doc godmother Penelope Spheeris speaks

"...punky-bank and purchased Penelope Spheeris’ watershed The Decline of Western Civilization trilogy – finally! – and the remastered, bells-and-whistles-and-catcalls..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Sweet Country

The modern Western goes to Northern Australia.

"...Questions of morality are ever-present in this lyrical Australian Western in which racism, colonialism, and the merits of Western..."

April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Embrace of the Serpent

Scientists and an Amazonian shaman interact in this unique film

"...how indigenous cultures get wiped out (often inadvertently) by Western explorers. Yet Embrace of the Serpent is not an..."

April 1, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Luv Doc: Willing

Western Europeans through most of the last few thousand years haven't been very enthusiastic bathers

"...Ice Age, the history of male sexual activity in Western civilization mainly involves whamming, bamming, and scramming. That's no..."

Feb. 17, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Serious Rock & Roll Anthropology

An interview with SXSW honoree Penelope Spheeris

"...Right up front you knew that The Decline of Western Civilization was not a film that was going to..."

March 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Punk Trilogy Gets a Re-release

Penelope Spheeris speaks on her restored punk doc triptych

"...cinema isn't hyperbole, it's the truth. The Decline of Western Civilization trilogy, her ongoing chronicle of the Los Angeles..."

July 17, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Hold the Dark

Humanity's animal instincts exposed in the Alaskan wilderness

"...incredibly evocative film and one of the most evocative neo-Westerns of the past decade...."

Sept. 28, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Stranger

"...his previous films, examining the nature of identity and civilization in modern-day society. Agantuk/The Stranger is believed by some..."

Sept. 1, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Although some critics have assumed, from Jacques Barzun's criticisms of modern culture, that he is a conservative ideologue, in reality he has always followed his own, pragmatic vision of things.

"...Barzun's book, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life: 1500 to the Present (HarperCollins, $36), has..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

The Searchers

Regarded by many as Ford's masterpiece and one of the greatest films of all time, this John Wayne Western is a meditation on survival, the loss of faith, and the death of heroes.

"...Brandon, Pat Wayne and Harry Carey Jr.. This 1956 Western directed by John Ford is regarded by many as..."

Oct. 1, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Proposition

The Western is alive and well in the Australian outback, as this gritty film with a screenplay and score by musician Nick Cave demonstrates.

"...perpetual rumors of its demise as a genre, the Western is alive and well in the Australian outback. The..."

June 9, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters @ 3AM

One of the great lessons of civilizations is that smarts don't count for much in the long run

"...Civilizations are usually better off dead. Especially empires. Greek civilization..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Column by Michael Ventura

Lege: Give 'Em More Founding Fathers!

Testing our true American values with Western civilization

"...Straus to offer "an optional curriculum that emphasizes ethics, Western civilization, and American traditions to satisfy portions of the..."

May 21, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Luv Doc Recommends: Lone Star Country Dance Sport Invitational

Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol, Friday, August 20, 2004

"...numerous pundits have waxed philosophical about the decline of Western civilization. It was solid ass-kicking no doubt, but for..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Column by The Luv Doc

Unforgiven

Eastwood's multiple award-winning Western.

"...movie and a conscious addition to the ongoing celluloid Western mythology, the film is a masterpiece, a stunning and..."

Aug. 14, 1992 Movie Review by Louis Black

Penelope Spheeris Retrospective

"...The Decline of Western Civilization, 1981 "I had never seen anything like that..."

March 9, 2001 Screens Feature

The Way of the Gun

"...ways the film bears a greater resemblance to the Western than to the crime genre, as these vagabond gunslingers..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Walkabout

Roeg's second film has become something of a cult classic. The story centers on two British children stranded in the Australian desert who are led back to civilization by an Aboriginal male. The fascination of the movie comes from the cultural collision that also carries a sexually charged undercurrent.

"...trying to kill them). They are led back to civilization by an Aboriginal male who appears to be about..."

April 25, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Ballad of Little Jo

"...conscious attempt to put a new spin on the Western offers a little seen perspective on the American frontier...."

Nov. 5, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

1991 Festival of Animation

"...study of the rise and fall of every major civilization on the earth; it's the sort of animated film..."

Aug. 23, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Last Samurai

Tom Cruise turns Japanese.

"...Samurai. From all appearances, the film – essentially a Western set in 19th-century Japan during the Meiji period –..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Homesman

Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones point their wagon east while confronting the myths of the Old West.

"...Jones’ second movie as a director is no conventional Western. Look no further than the direction traveled by the..."

Nov. 28, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two: The Apache Wars in History and Myth

Indeh, Ethan Hawke and Greg Ruth's new graphic novel

"...expand westward until it stretched from ocean to ocean. Western pioneers were the secular missionaries of American Exceptionalism, taming..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: The Politics of Distraction

In the face of failure at home and abroad, the right turns on immigrants

"...health-service funds with the intent of subverting and destroying Western civilization and the American lifestyle...."

April 14, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Austin Heart Of Film Festival Schedule And Information

"...attendance; Penelope Spheeris' new documentary The Decline of American Civilization, Part III; the closing night screening of Bryan Singer's..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Screens Feature

'300' Should Not Be Compared to Iraq

"...one of the defining moments in the development of Western-style democracy (which incidentally makes it possible for all of..."

March 24, 2007 Postmarks

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