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Lone Wolf And Cub: White Heaven In Hell (1974)
The final entry of the series, Lone Wolf And Cub: White Heaven In Hell (1974) has a great opening sequence of samurai assassin Ogami Itto (Tomisaburo Wakayama) and his son Daigoro (Akihiro Tomikaway) using the baby cart as a sled through a snowy landscape, backed by musician Kunihiko Murai turning in a very funky instrumental… Read.
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Fortress (1992)
Fortress (1992) is one of those movies from my youth that I never sat through from start to finish, but feel like I absorbed through osmosis. It was always on TV, and flipping between channels, I usually caught key scenes. Much like Escape From Absolom and Wedlock, Fortress feels like the moderately budgeted children of… Read.
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Vanya On 42nd Street (1994)
My main knowledge of the Anton Chekov play Uncle Vanya is through its rehearsal and performance in the Japanese film, Drive My Car, directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi. I have always been aware of Vanya On 42nd Street (1994), a film adaptation of Vanya that reunited actors and playwrights Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn, with the… Read.
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Issue 20: Cities
“Find a city, find myself a city to live in” – Talking Heads.Issue 20 of VHS Tracking is sets its sights on “Cities” as its theme.An A5 fold-out double-paged zine of movie recommendations with risograph printing from Neighbourhood Press.The issue’s terrific artwork is by Hannah Coakley based on The Florida Project.Contributing writers include: Hannah Coakley,… Read.
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Round About Midnight (1999)
Hiroyuki Sanada is a recognisable Japanese actor from Hollywood productions like The Last Samurai and John Wick 4, always giving a sense of dignity and substance to even mainstream action cinema clearly beneath his talents (Bullet Train, Mortal Kombat remake). In previous decades, there were leading roles in Japanese cinemas throughout the 1980s onwards. Round… Read.
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