Friday, 23 November 2007
Video Nasties, Video Lovelies: A Guest List
posted @4:04 p.m. by Richard Kelly
Those of you who enjoyed Fraser Macdonald's wander down VCR Memory Lane a few weeks back will now be pleased to meet today's Guest List-Maker DAN BERLINKA, who is mining a similar vein of 1980s adolescent viewing pleasure, but with all-new personal insights. For me this stuff is like reading Proust. Jenny Agutter was a pivotal figure for a lot of us back then. And I too knew someone who tape-recorded a movie (The Long Good Friday) so he could listen to it on a Walkman. All this before YouTube and the portable DVD player...
Tuesday, 30 October 2007
Forbidden Fruits of the 1980s
posted @5:15 p.m. by Richard Kelly
Fraser MacDonald's Listmania! Ten of the verboten movies he rented on VHS as an adolescent is not only hilarious and beautifully candid: it has, I believe, a universal application to all nascent (male) movie lovers who were too young to smoke at the time when the infamous Video Recordings Act of 1985 passed into British law... Fraser, we salute you, as one.
