Review: Adrian Shergold’s ‘Cordelia’
“‘Cordelia’ is generally easier to appreciate for what it’s trying to do rather than what the film actually achieves.”
Recovery, Survival and Extinction: Abel Ferrara’s Exile Cycle
“Few artists have dreamt more boldly and defiantly in their exile than Ferrara; he has faced up to the dark towers of commerce and coercion, the systemic violence that is rationalized and sanctioned to peak efficiency by the prevailing conditions.”
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘The Gentlemen’
‘The Gentlemen’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Guy Ritchie’s 2019 movie.
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Rambo: Last Blood’
‘Rambo: Last Blood’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Adrian Grunberg’s 2019 movie.
Soundtracks of Television: ‘Barry’
‘Barry’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Alec Berg and Bill Hader’s HBO series.
Soundtracks of Television: ‘Russian Doll’
‘Russian Doll’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Leslye Headland, Natasha Lyonne and Amy Poehler’s Netflix series.
Know the Cast: ‘Russian Doll’
‘Russian Doll’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Leslye Headland, Natasha Lyonne and Amy Poehler’s Netflix series.
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Furioza’
‘Furioza’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Cyprian T. Olencki’s 2021 movie.
Know the Cast: ‘Furioza’
‘Furioza’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Cyprian T. Olencki’s 2021 movie.
The Eternal Substance of ‘Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death’
“‘Into the Night’ is a valuable resource for the ‘connoisseur of fear.'”
On Power and Pleasure in Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Phantom Thread’
“‘Phantom Thread’ is for anyone who has ever been hungry, for anyone who has ever been in love. Most of all, it’s for those people who know that love and hunger are, at their most acutely expressed, one and the same.”
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Belfast’
‘Belfast’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Kenneth Branagh’s 2021 movie.
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘CODA’
‘CODA’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Sian Heder’s 2021 Apple TV+ movie.
Numbness and Arousal in the Post-Postmodern Apocalypse of ‘Too Old to Die Young’
“Taken as a whole, ‘Too Old to Die Young’ is a summative statement on genre, aesthetics and the crumbling American psyche, delivered with a fury sublimated in neon glow. It is a major work of art.”
The Art of the Score: Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Logan Lucky’
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Review: Mattie Do’s ‘The Long Walk’
“‘The Long Walk,’ the latest from Mattie Do — Laos’ first and, so far, only female director — understands that for time travel to make sense, all one has to do is present it as is. For Do, it’s a feeling more than a fact.”
Know the Cast: ‘Blackhat’
‘Blackhat Cast’: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Michael Mann’s 2015 movie.
There Is No Try: Documenting the Silicon Valley Mindset
There Is No Try: Documenting the Silicon Valley Mindset | D.M. Palmer on ‘The Inventor, ‘Fyre,’ ‘Fyre Fraud’ and ‘WeWork: or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn’
‘Cheap Thrills’ and the Desperation of the Working-Class Man
“‘Cheap Thrills’ is a cautionary tale of the snake hidden in the grass, not of the lions fighting for a scrap of meat.”
Know the Cast: ‘Euphoria’
‘Euphoria’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Sam Levinson’s HBO series.