EIFF 2025 Review: Sepideh Farsi’s ‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk’
“As a cinematic epitaph for an extraordinary young woman, ‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk’ more than captures the spirit of Fatima Hassouna.”
Tightrope Walker: Dirk Bogarde’s Post-War Rebellion
“Rejection is the purest form of rebellion. Bogarde was never embraced by Hollywood in large part because ambivalence is not a bankable asset. He left too many questions unanswered.”
Know the Cast: ‘Blitz’
‘Blitz’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Steve McQueen’s 2024 Apple TV+ movie.
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘The Six Triple Eight’
‘The Six Triple Eight’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Tyler Perry’s 2024 Netflix movie.
Know the Cast: ‘The Six Triple Eight’
‘The Six Triple Eight’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Tyler Perry’s 2024 Netflix movie.
Feeling Like a Winner: Elliott Gould’s Hollywood Hot Streak
“Gould’s persona upended traditional notions of cinematic masculinity in its appeal to a generational fatigue and ambivalence; his sexual magnetism eschewed the amatory codes of the traditional leading man.”
Know the Cast: ‘Fury’
‘Fury’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in David Ayer’s 2014 movie.
Soundtracks of Television: ‘All the Light We Cannot See’
‘All the Light We Cannot See’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Steven Knight and Shawn Levy’s 2023 Netflix miniseries.
Know the Cast: ‘All the Light We Cannot See’
‘All the Light We Cannot See’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Steven Knight and Shawn Levy’s 2023 Netflix miniseries.
Know the Cast & Characters: ‘The Covenant’
‘The Covenant’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Guy Ritchie’s 2023 movie.
TIFF Review: Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone of Interest’
“If one is willing to meet ‘The Zone of Interest’ on its own terms, Glazer’s film offers an uncompromising glimpse at the lengths people will go to avoid seeing the horrors around them…”
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Blood & Gold’
‘Blood & Gold’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Peter Thorwarth’s 2023 Netflix movie.
Know the Cast & Characters: ‘Blood & Gold’
‘Blood & Gold’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Peter Thorwarth’s 2023 Netflix movie.
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’
‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Edward Berger’s 2022 Netflix movie.
Know the Cast & Characters: ‘Narvik’
‘Narvik’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Erik Skjoldbjærg’s 2022 movie.
Know the Cast & Characters: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’
‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Edward Berger’s 2022 Netflix movie.
Vagabond Noirs and Tramp Westerns: The Films of Hugo Fregonese at Il Cinema Ritrovato
“Hugo Fregonese is a director ripe for rediscovery.”
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Operation Mincemeat’
‘Operation Mincemeat’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in John Madden’s 2021 movie.
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.”
‘Coach to Vienna’ and the Muddied Waters of History
“The power of ‘Coach to Vienna’ today rests in its mythic quality. The crux of the story may well be placed in the ‘real,’ but the affect of the mise-en-scène is that of a murderous fable.”