Robert Frank and Free Intuition
“‘Leaving Home, Coming Home’ is a sharp snapshot of a photography titan. All the ingredients! Chaos and clarity, freedom and free intuition.”
This category is a Vague Visages archive for movie, TV and music content from the 2020s.
About Vague Visages:
Mission: Vague Visages aims to publish high-quality writing about world cinema and culture. The site maintains a balance of indie and mainstream coverage, allowing for a unique blend of perspectives.
Origins: Inspired by the cinema movement known as La Nouvelle Vague, Q.V. Hough created an image-based blog called “Faces of the French New Wave” in 2014. For a creative twist, the site’s name quickly changed to “Vague Visages” (aka Wave Faces) in honor of French New Wave filmmakers and American indie filmmaker John Cassavetes (director of the 1968 film Faces).
Shift to Film Criticism: Q.V. moved Vague Visages from Blogger to WordPress in late 2014, using the French publication Cahiers du cinéma as a thematic model.
About Q.V. Hough:
Q.V. (Quinn) Hough is Vague Visages’ founding editor and a Rotten Tomatoes-certified film critic. After graduating from Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota) in 2004 with degrees in Communication-Mass Media, History and Classical Studies, he lived in Hollywood, California from 2006 to 2012. Q.V. worked closely with ABC On-Air Promotions as the production manager for LUSSIER. He previously co-hosted Concordia On-Air for three semesters before moving to Los Angeles.
In 2014, Q.V. founded Vague Visages. While developing the site, he wrote 600 video scripts and one e-book for WatchMojo (2014-17), along with 2,000 articles for Screen Rant (2018-21). Q.V. has also written for RogerEbert.com, Fandor and Crooked Marquee. He committed to Vague Visages full-time in August 2021.
E-Mail: qvh@vaguevisages.com
Twitter: @QVHough
Instagram: @QVHough
LinkedIn: @QVHough
“‘Leaving Home, Coming Home’ is a sharp snapshot of a photography titan. All the ingredients! Chaos and clarity, freedom and free intuition.”
‘Ginny & Georgia’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Sarah Lampert’s Netflix series.
“Problems do not vanish forever, so ‘I May Destroy You’ is about the constant fight. Repetition becomes revision. Paralysis becomes progress.”
‘Kaleidoscope’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Eric Garcia’s 2023 Netflix miniseries.
“‘Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché’ is not a critical deconstruction of X-Ray Spex’s music, but enough time is spent and enough awesome performance footage is included to send newcomers in search of ‘Germfree Adolescents’ (1978) and more.”
‘The Last of Us’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann’s HBO series.
‘The Last of Us’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann’s HBO series.
‘Sick’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in John Hyams’ 2023 Peacock movie.
‘The Drop’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Sarah Adina Smith’s 2023 Hulu movie.
‘Urf’ Interview: Dipankar Sarkar discusses the 2022 documentary with director Geetika Narang Abbasi.
‘Servant’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Tony Basgallop’s Apple TV+ series.
‘The Fabelmans’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Steven Spielberg’s 2022 movie.
“The Danish emperor of cool has lost his clothes.”
‘The Menu’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Mark Mylod’s 2022 movie.
“‘The Eternal Daughter’ can be viewed independently from the pair of stories starring Swinton’s own daughter Honor Swinton Byrne, but the in-world connections provide an extra layer of enjoyment.”
‘Bros’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Nicholas Stoller’s 2022 movie.
‘She Said’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Maria Schrader’s 2022 movie.
‘The Pale Blue Eye’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Scott Cooper’s 2022 Netflix movie.
“‘Ronnie’s’ takes me back to my early days in Hollywood, before I had Facebook and an iPhone, before I began forcing experiences and friendships rather than just letting them happen. What a feeling to transcend above what brings you down… to feel at home.”
‘White Noise’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Noah Baumbach’s 2022 Netflix movie.