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...
