Ep. 387: Clyde Folley on VHS Forever: Videoheaven, 52 Pick-Up, Re-Wind, The Big Hit, Clerks, Ring, Lost Highway
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw, with your host, Nicolas Rapold. This week Clyde Folley comes back the podcast to talk about the VHS series he programmed on the Criterion Channel: VHS Forever! (Exclamation point mine.) The selected movies feature video stores or video-recording or anything related to VHS culture, spanning the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s—and culminating in Alex Ross Perry’s comprehensive video essay Videoheaven (which Folley also edited). Titles we discuss include: 52 Pick-Up (directed by John Frankenheimer), Re-Wind (Hisayasu Sato), The Big Hit (Kirk Wong), Ring (Hideo Nakata), Clerks (Kevin Smith), Lost Highway (David Lynch), and of course Videoheaven and its making.
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