Vague Visages Short Stories: Find Your Perfection by D.M. Palmer
Vague Visages Short Stories #10: Find Your Perfection by D.M. Palmer (Sheffield, UK)
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See and Be Seen: Aaron Schimberg’s ‘Chained for Life’
“In a borough of New York teeming with independent and micro-budget filmmakers, Aaron Schimberg is one of the handful to keep an eye out for with every new work that he makes.”
Lost Amidst the Architecture: Aaron Katz’s ‘Gemini’
“In straining to emulate something in the order of a traditional thriller, Katz and his team of long-time collaborators find themselves sliding perilously towards the formulaic.”
Telling Stories in Order to Survive: ‘Argo’
“‘Argo’ allows you to enjoy the CIA’s outlandish caper, but it also confronts you with the ambivalence of the larger picture.”
Jim McKay’s ‘En el Séptimo Día’: An Immigrant Fairy Tale
“With flexible, transparent cinematography by Charles Libin, the film captures, beat by beat, moment by moment, José’s actions and movements as he bikes, makes deliveries and encounters his boss, friends and customers.”
Permanent Shadows: Rosalind Byrne in Buster Keaton’s ‘Seven Chances’
“Put simply, Rosalind Byrne changed how I think about cinema. Yes, film is largely about fiction, but in the recording of these fictions, there is an accidental reveal that says so much about who we are and what we think.”
Hell in the Mirror of Heaven: An Interview with Cold Cave’s Wesley Eisold
Leslie Hatton Interviews Cold Cave’s Wesley Eisold
Vague Visages Writers’ Room: Weekend Vibes 6.8.18
Weekend Vibes is a Friday column about streaming recommendations, new release hype and entertainment events.
Ari Aster’s ‘Hereditary’: Hollow Horror
“What’s truly terrifying about ‘Hereditary’ is how empty it really is.”
Love as a Force in Francis Lee’s ‘God’s Own Country’
“What a beautiful gem of a film, one that’s carved so effectively by Francis Lee in his debut feature.”