9 August 2009
i <3 john hughes
2 weeks ago as I finished packing up my Hackney flat I decided it was time to donate my John Hughes VHS collection to the charity shop (a decision I never thought I’d end up regretting so quickly). I bundled them up into a carrier bag and was about to send them out the door when I realised I wasn’t quite ready to say goodbye to them all at once, and decided to at least ’save Ferris’.
There’s not a lot of sentiment I can offer in regards to the passing of John Hughes that hasn’t already been offered and worded better, so I’ll be brief. But he was in all seriousness one of my favourite directors, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off has remained one of my favourite films since I first saw it as a kid decorating the family Christmas tree (how twee)- cripes even the title of my last post referenced the film.
So here’s to John Hughes and to hoping that the Criterion Collection acknowledges what true cinema classics so many of his films where… or if not, to hunting down where the rest of my VHS Hughes collection is now.
(and here’s also to hoping I won the lottery yesterday so I can buy this flat)
illustration c/o Feeling Stitchy
