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Rachel Salmon-Lomas – La Haine (1995)
VHS Tracking Presents:La Haine (1995) with Rachel Salmon-LomasWednesday 12 March 2025 6:30pmGoolugatup Heathcote La Haine (1995) Director Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La Haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days… Read.
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Arachnophobia (1990)
Recorded on VHS tape from Channel 7, I repeatedly watched Arachnophobia (1990) as a child. Along with Tremors, these were horror comedies that worked best as ‘gateway horrors’ for me, at a time when I was petrified by the horror aisle in a video store due to the suggestive box covers. Both Arachnophobia and Tremors… Read.
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Fatal Pulse (2018)
FINAL STAGE – GLASS BRICK PORTALFEBRUARY 1991Fatal Pulse (2018) announces itself as operating within the Yuppie Fear thriller mode, using clips and trailers of The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, Pacific Heights, Deceived, etc. The actual experience of Fatal Pulse itself is comparable to Tim and Eric, Inland Empire, and Southland Tales. An evisceration of a cultural era – the early 1990s in… Read.
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Eyes Without A Face (1960)
I thought about transition scenes in movies and the greater power that some can have over others. In Eyes Without A Face (1960), a French horror movie about a plastic surgeon (Pierre Brasseur) who kidnaps women to provide a new face for his disfigured daughter (Edith Scob). There is a transitional scene where we see… Read.
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Distant (2002)
I associate Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan with long takes of expansive landscape from the couple of movies I’ve seen of his. And the opening shot of Distant (2002; aka Uzak) fulfils that association, as a solitary figure trudges across a field, a small town in the distance and a road in the foreground from… Read.
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