Interview with ‘Malik’ Filmmaker Mahesh Narayanan
Malik Interview: Vague Visages’ Dipankar Sarkar and filmmaker Mahesh Narayanan discuss the 2021 Amazon Prime movie.
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
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Malik Interview: Vague Visages’ Dipankar Sarkar and filmmaker Mahesh Narayanan discuss the 2021 Amazon Prime movie.
‘Titane’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Julia Ducournau’s 2021 movie.
‘Titane’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Julia Ducournau’s 2021 film.
‘My Brother, My Sister’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Roberto Capucci’s 2021 Netflix movie.
‘My Brother, My Sister’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Roberto Capucci’s 2021 Netflix movie.
‘In for a Murder’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Piotr Mularuk’s 2021 Netflix movie.
‘In for a Murder’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Piotr Mularuk’s 2021 Netflix movie.
The Five Juanas Season 2: Here’s what Vague Visages’ ‘La Venganza de las Juanas’ expert predicts for Matilde (Juanita Arias) in new episodes.
“Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune: Part One’ is a worthy addition to the collection, besting the Lynch film in certain ways but still flummoxed and frustrated by the source material’s conversation-heavy downside.”
‘Inside Job’ Voice Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in the animated Netflix series.
‘Operation Hyacinth’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Piotr Domalewski’s Netflix movie (‘Hiacynt’).
‘Maya and the Three’ Voice Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in the animated Netflix series.
“Ducournau’s approach to cinematic lineage and influence in ‘Titane’ is a complicated one, as she develops her singular filmmaking style into something even more evasive and intricate than in ‘Raw.'”
“Like its predecessor, ‘The Souvenir Part II’ is defined by its open spaces; the silences in conversation, the gap between ‘action’ and ‘cut,’ the clouds between the memory of how something happened, and the reality of it.”
‘Night Teeth’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Adam Randall’s 2021 Netflix movie.
‘Night Teeth’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Adam Randall’s 2021 Netflix movie.
‘Queens’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Zahir McGhee’s ABC series.
‘Queens’ Soundtrack: A VV guide for every song in Zahir McGhee’s ABC music series starring Eve, Brandy, Naturi Naughton and Nadine Velazquez.
“‘Halloween Kills’ may not be to everybody’s tastes, but there’s a reason for that ‘kills’ in the title, beyond attention-grabbing marketing. The word refers not just to Michael himself but the rot at the core of Haddonfield…”
The Five Juanas Season 2: Vague Visages’ La Venganza de las Juanas expert, Q.V. Hough, on what happens next for Valentina (Renata Notni).