Author: VHS Tracking
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Issue 16: Comfort Movies
New issue of VHS Tracking zine out! A two-page A5-sized fold-out zine printed on riso printers from Neighbourhood Press. Issue 16 features the theme “Comfort Movies” and contains reviews and recommendations where writers share their favourite comfort movies. The fantastic cover illustration is by Claudia Deborah based on the film, The Doom Generation, directed by… Read.
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Let The Corpses Tan (2017)
A leather glove tightened. Sweat dripping down a lined face. The snap of a firearm being loaded. The glow emanating from a gold bar. Let The Corpses Tan (2017; Laissez bronzer les cadavres) luxuriates in these details, fetishing them in close up and heightened sound design. As filmmakers, Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani have a… Read.
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Paprika (2006)
Look, I can rewatch Inception anytime, but after my first viewing at the cinema, I remembered thinking, “The imagery wasn’t really that surreal for a movie about dreams.” Sure, there’s the city folding on itself, and the hallway zero gravity fight, but for the most part, it’s pretty standard stuff – the climax is a… Read.
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Demonlover (2002)
demonlover (2002) is like later period William Gibson: it’s not about putting on the goggles and jacking into the cyberspace, but more about corporate espionage. I love French director Olivier Assayas in this mode – post-Irma Vep genre studies of women at work and under duress (see also: Boarding Gate and Personal Shopper) in a… Read.
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Virtuosity (1995)
The wackiest aspect about Virtuosity (1995) is that SID 6.0 (Russell Crowe), a deadly computer program for virtual police training, is a composite of 183 serial killers. Only 183? It’s a bit like the number of multi-verses in The One – it could be a round number like 200, but that’s too neat. 183 sounds… Read.
