Every VHS Tape I Have Owned
by ASH Smyth
May 2024
The Crow
Aladdin (proper cartoon version)
Interview with the Vampire
Dumb & Dumber
Nixon
Liar Liar
Notorious (PG, not B.I.G.)
Emma (Gwyneth, before she went mad)
Chariots of Fire
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Blackadder II
Velvet Goldmine
The Student Prince
Papillon (McQueen v Hoffman)
Guys and Dolls
Citizen Kane
The Doors
The Three Musketeers (the 1973 version—but they're all bad in their own unique ways)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1977—ditto)
A Night at the Opera / A Day at the Races
Comedy Greats: Tony Hancock
Carmen (Julia Migenes and Plácido Domingo, dir. Francesco Rosi)
Young Guns
8mm
Last Man Standing
Bram Stoker's Dracula (not the Dracula by any other writer)
The Mission
Malcolm X
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (not the Frankenstein by any other writer)
Léon
Schindler's List
Fargo
Trainspotting
Howard's End (no, not the Netflix version)
Dangerous Liaisons (no, not the Netflix version)
Manhunter
M*A*S*H
The Doors Are Open
Empire of the Sun
Great Expectations (with Gwyneth Paltrow)
Great Expectations (without Gwyneth Paltrow)
Stigmata
Doctor Zhivago
Pulp Fiction
Topsy Turvy
The Silence of the Lambs
William Shakespeare's Hamlet (A Kenneth Branagh Film)
Deliverance
In & Out
The Thomas Crown Affair (Piers Brosnan)
The World Is Not Enough (also Piers Brosnan)
Gladiator
Gandhi
Some Like It Hot
Notting Hill
H.M.S. Pinafore (Frankie Howerd, god help me)
The Runaway Bride
An Ideal Husband (Rupert Everett)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Rupert Everett)
As Good As It Gets
All the President's Men
Calendar Girls
The Ladykillers (Alec Guinness (and Frankie Howerd))
Kind Hearts and Coronets (Alec Guinness (and Alec Guinness (etc.)))
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Playtime
The People vs Larry Flynt
