This new 4K release has allowed me to unpack my teenage obsession all over again, alongside other films from this era that share similar themes (“ Brazil,” “ Something Wild,” and “ Blue Velvet”).
I started paying closer attention to complex tracking shots, quick editing, close-ups, dissolves, music use, and surreal lighting choices. From then on, I would be in tune with the technical side of filmmaking in a way I hadn’t been before. I watched it with my dad late at night, and we both enjoyed the weird unpredictability of the thing, but for me, it would eventually become an obsession. We all have that movie that changed the way we look at the craft of filmmaking, and “After Hours” was mine.
At thirteen years old, my first viewing of it would be a day I’d never forget. The film came out on VHS and Beta in the early summer of 1986.
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