Author: VHS Tracking
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Border (2018)
Winner of Un Certain Regard at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, the Swedish film Border (2018; Gräns) might also take the crown for weirdest sex scene in a movie. Directed by Ali Abbasi and based on a story written by John Ajvide Lindqvist, the author of Let The Right One In, which gives an indication… Read.
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Night And The City (1950)
Directed by Jules Dassin and shot on location in London, Night And The City (1950) has the iconic look of the film noir genre down pat. From the chiaroscuro lighting of faces in close up to the placement of a suited individual against a dark cityscape, Max Greene’s cinematography is brilliant. The film is also… Read.
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Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
For me, Dolemite Is My Name (2019) was a good time. I was predisposed to like it because of the writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. They wrote one of my favourite movies, Ed Wood, and the easy comparison was that this was a Blaxploitation version of that biopic. There’s a similar structure with supporting… Read.
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Detour (1945)
Detour (1945) always seemed like the ultimate example of film noir to me on account of the mythos around it; that it wasn’t a big studio picture, that it was low budget and shot quickly, and that its lead star would later in life would be involved in Hollywood true crime gossip (was it an… Read.
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Trash Classics: Miami Connection
Trash Classics: Miami Connection (1987)Sunday 10 November, 2019Luna Leederville After the success of screening the ‘best worst movie’ Troll 2 recently, VHS Tracking and Luna Cinemas continue their series of Trash Classics, little known films that are “so bad, they’re good” (and stand alongside Luna Cinema’s favourite, The Room)! This time the genre is martial… Read.
