James Howard Kunstler appears throughout “Radiant City,” a

James Howard Kunstler appears throughout “Radiant City,” a recently released film that that The New York Times described as “an acerbic position paper on the cultural damage done by postwar architectural fads.” Reviewer Matt Zoller Seitz said the movie “unfavorably contrasts early-20th-century suburbs, which were built around shared public spaces and more conducive to pedestrian life, with their postwar successors, which lured inhabitants by promising huge amounts of space and no obligation to care about what happened beyond your property line.” Written and directed by Gary Burns and Jim Brown, the film has a tone that Seitz said “could be described as one of incredulous lament.”