Author: VHS Tracking
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I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians (2018)
I was a fan of Romanian director Radu Jude’s Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, and was reading recent interviews with him about his next film doing the festival rounds. This compelled me to track down some of his earlier films, and the only one available on SBS On Demand is I Do Not Care… Read.
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A Better Tomorrow II (1987)
An action thriller about two brothers on opposite sides of the law, A Better Tomorrow was a smash hit in Hong Kong and helped birth the “heroic bloodshed” sub-genre. With Chow-Yun Fat’s performance as the third member of this triangle, the antagonistic but loyal gangster Mark, it was a role that cemented the actor as… Read.
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Issue 21: Occult
“Come. It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man.”Issue 21 of VHS Tracking reveals the hidden knowledge – of the paranormal, the mystical, the arcane, the magical and even the satanic – with the theme of “OCCULT”!An A5 fold-out double-paged zine of movie recommendations with risograph printing from Neighbourhood Press. The issue’s… Read.
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Anaïs In Love (2021)
Anaïs In Love (2021) played at festivals, if I remember correctly like the French Film Festival, and feels like it would have been overshadowed by The Worst Person In The World coming out in the same year. There’s a resemblance between the two leads – lithe brunette white women – and they’re both chaotic presences… Read.
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In Front Of Your Face (2021)
I could imagine the further you delve into prolific Korean director Hong Sang-soo, a feeling of sameness might set in, or more just seeing the recurring themes, structures and approaches more clearer. A week between seeing Grass and In Front Of Your Face (2021), both currently streaming on SBS On Demand with half a dozen… Read.
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