#363: Must-Watch Christmas Movies—Anthony Esolen
12/06/23 • 73 min
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This week: Magdalen College Professor Anthony Esolen is not only an eminent man of literature, he is also a walking encyclopedia of cinema. That definitely included movies set against or directly about, Christmas. In this free-wheeling conversation featuring brushes with fame and interconnectivity of actors who worked with the same directors, we hit many favorites and also some lesser-known Christmas movie nuggets.
In this episode, you will learn- Reasonable criteria for what makes a Christmas movie a Christmas movie
- How everybody seems to miss the non-stop blasphemous swearing in Die Hard (1988)
- The culture degradation as manifest in the way Christmas was treated by Hollywood in years gone by
- Why many Christmas moves seem to include notes of sorrow and grief
- Reasons why the Golden Age (1934-1966) produced the great movies about or set against, Christmas
- It Happened on Fifth Avenue
- The Man Who Came to Dinner
- Penny Serenade
- The Shop Around the Corner
- Remember the Night
- Christmas in Connecticut
- An Affair to Remember
- The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
- The Bishop’s Wife
- Meet John Doe
- White Christmas
- Holiday Inn
- Miracle on 34th Street
- Die Hard
- Love, Actually
- Joyeux Noel
- The Apartment
- And course: It’s a Wonderful Life!
- Christians in the Movies: A Century of Saints and Sinners by Peter Dans
- Sex and the Unreal City: The Demolition of the Western Mind by Anthony Esolen
- Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture by Anthony Esolen
This week: Magdalen College Professor Anthony Esolen is not only an eminent man of literature, he is also a walking encyclopedia of cinema. That definitely included movies set against or directly about, Christmas. In this free-wheeling conversation featuring brushes with fame and interconnectivity of actors who worked with the same directors, we hit many favorites and also some lesser-known Christmas movie nuggets.
In this episode, you will learn- Reasonable criteria for what makes a Christmas movie a Christmas movie
- How everybody seems to miss the non-stop blasphemous swearing in Die Hard (1988)
- The culture degradation as manifest in the way Christmas was treated by Hollywood in years gone by
- Why many Christmas moves seem to include notes of sorrow and grief
- Reasons why the Golden Age (1934-1966) produced the great movies about or set against, Christmas
- It Happened on Fifth Avenue
- The Man Who Came to Dinner
- Penny Serenade
- The Shop Around the Corner
- Remember the Night
- Christmas in Connecticut
- An Affair to Remember
- The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
- The Bishop’s Wife
- Meet John Doe
- White Christmas
- Holiday Inn
- Miracle on 34th Street
- Die Hard
- Love, Actually
- Joyeux Noel
- The Apartment
- And course: It’s a Wonderful Life!
- Christians in the Movies: A Century of Saints and Sinners by Peter Dans
- Sex and the Unreal City: The Demolition of the Western Mind by Anthony Esolen
- Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture by Anthony Esolen
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In the past three years, rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide have tripled. Loss of identity and purpose is rampant and a collective fear and sadness has become overwhelming. Morale has reached an all time low no matter where you find yourself in the world.
We need a solution. Answers we can trust.
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#364: Why Mary is Not Contrary—Dr. Rachel Fulton Brown
This week’s guest is a mentor and kind of spiritual mother to Milo Yiannopoulos (whose very candid interview with me was Episode 101) and wrote the bracing Foreword to his latest book (see link below). Dr Rachel Fulton Brown is a tenured professor of history at the University of Chicago, and a renowned medieval scholar with a speciality in the area of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
She is also a fervent convert to the Catholic Faith. In this episode we dive deep into the biblical and historical roots of the role of the Blessed Mother in salvation history, and suggest ways to answer objections to the truth about Mary.
In this episode you will learn:- Why we say Mary is the Mother of God and not just the Mother of Jesus
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- When devotion to Mary went into eclipse and how to revive it
- Why Our Lady is a powerful intercessor for all mankind, not just Catholics
- The reason why all the titles of Mary in all the litanies can never exhaust her beauty nor the full truth about her person and mission.
- Mary and the Art of Prayer: The Hours of the Virgin in Medieval Christian Life and Thought by Rachel Fulton Brown
- From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800–1200 by Rachel Fulton Brown
- The World’s First Love by Ven. Fulton J. Sheen
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