Remote Control

Remote Control film still 1[A part of Video Stores in Films tribute.]

In Village Video, an employee discovers an alien’s plot against the earth. A big part of the film is shot in the video store, so the references are too many. Selected screeshots are presented below.

Remote Control film still 2Standee of Peter Weir’s Witness (1985) is shown.

Remote Control film still 3Roman Polanski’s Tess (1979) and Bob Rafelson’s The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981).

Remote Control film still 4Peter Hyams’  2010 (1984), Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982), William Cameron Menzies’  Invaders from Mars (1953).

Remote Control film still 5Yabo Yablonsky’s The Manipulator (1971), José Ramón Larraz’s Scream and Die (1974), Francis Ford Coppola’s Rumble Fish (1983), Lek Kitaparaporn’s Angkor: Cambodia Express (1982).

Remote Control film still 6François Truffaut’s Stolen Kisses (1969) is playing on one of the store’s TVs.

Remote Control film still 7Ted Post’s Nightkill (1980), Andy Milligan’s The Man with Two Heads (1972), Alan Rudolph’s Trouble in Mind (1985).

Remote Control film still 8Poster of Rod Daniel’s Teen Wolf (1985).

Remote Control film still 9Victor Fleming’s Gone with the Wind (1939).

Remote Control film still 10Sydney Pollack’s Three Days of the Condor (1975), Allan A. Buckhantz’s Portrait of a Hitman (1979), Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964).

Remote Control film still 11Norman Jewison’s …And Justice for All (1979), Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972), Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky III (1982), Robert M. Young’s Short Eyes (1977).

Remote Control film still 14Menahem Golan’s Delta Force (1986), Steve Miner’s House (1986) and Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) colorised!

Scenes from Jeff Lieberman’s Remote Control (1988).

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