Author: VHS Tracking
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Alphabet City (1984)
Streetlights that beam like diffused moons. Tenement buildings cast in a purple haze. Wet streets where a Trans Am speeds through the night, blinding the camera with its headlights. All to the synth-funk sounds of Nile Rogers composing the score. These are some of the aesthetic delights of Alphabet City (1984), a neo-noir crime drama… Read.
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News From Home (1977)
After seeing The Meetings Of Anna for the first time, and really loving it, I wanted to explore more of the filmography of Belgian director Chantal Akerman. News From Home (1977) is a critically acclaimed avant-garde documentary that she directed that I decided to take the plunge on. It’s basically a series of long takes,… Read.
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Cast A Deadly Spell (1991)
I remember Cast A Deadly Spell (1991) being advertised in a comic book as a kid and getting it confused in my memories with CD-rom PC games with film noir/movie elements like Under A Killing Moon. Cast A Deadly Spell has been written about as a horror neo-noir, a post-war detective story in a parallel… Read.
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Sweet Virginia (2017)
I sometimes still think about Sweet Virginia (2017) which I watched one grey afternoon on Netflix several years ago. I think it’s a good neo-noir thriller, not a great one; it flirts close to the nihilistic edge of something like No Country For Old Men, but sort of flinches, which is both a good and… Read.
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Blood Money (1933)
Often the biggest anxiety for me is choosing something to watch out of all the possibilities. I am appreciating the decision to just focus on finishing a list of movies, the ones I haven’t seen from Danny Peary’s book, Cult Movies 2. Without this list, I never would have sought out Blood Money (1933), a… Read.
