Dan Bourke – Les Blank Films

VHS Tracking Presents: The Documentaries Of Les Blank presented by Dan BourkeWednesday 21 August 2024 6:30pmGoolugatup Heathcote The Documentaries Of Les Blank: Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers (1980) and Gap-Toothed Women (1987) Born in Florida, Les Blank cut his teeth making industrial films before founding his own production company, Flower Films, in the […]

Trenque Lauquen (2022)

I only heard about the film Trenque Lauquen (2022) through Simon Miraudo reviewing it on Letterboxd. A four hour shaggy-dog mystery from Argentina might have passed me by, but it completely sounded like something that I’d like to seek out. Directed and co-written by Laura Citarella, this is a mystery that ventures off into different […]

Something In The Dirt (2022)

I really dug Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson’s The Endless. And while I liked Synchronic fine enough, their screen presence as actors – not just as the co-directors, writer and cinematographer of their projects – is an underrated element. Something In The Dirt (2022) was something Moorhead and Benson made during the pandemic, basically filming […]

The Day He Arrives (2011)

In Hong Sang-soo’s The Day He Arrives (2011), a young film director Seong-Jun (Yoo Jun-sang) walks down the street of Seoul, wearing a puffy coat and a travelling backpack, intending to stay with a friend, a film critic, Young-ho (Kim Sang-joon). The director has made four movies but is in an on-going hiatus, living further […]

Carla Adams – Welcome To The Dollhouse

VHS Tracking Presents: Welcome To The Dollhouse (1995) presented by Carla AdamsWednesday 17 July 2024 6:30pmGoolugatup Heathcote Welcome To The Dollhouse (1995) While it wasn’t New Jersey native Todd Solondz’s debut as a director, Welcome To The Dollhouse (1995) was his break-out film, winning a Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival that year. […]