Soundtracks of Television: ‘Euphoria’
‘Euphoria’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Sam Levinson’s HBO series.
Soundtracks of Television: ‘Emily in Paris’
‘Emily in Paris’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Darren Star’s Netflix series.
Soundtracks of Television: ‘Sex Education’ Season 3
‘Sex Education’ Season 3 Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Laurie Nunn’s Netflix series.
Soundtracks of Television: ‘Yellowjackets’
‘Yellowjackets’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson’s Showtime series.
Soundtracks of Television: ‘The Big Leap’
‘The Big Leap’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Liz Heldens’ Fox series about a reality TV dance competition.
Soundtracks of Television: ‘Cobra Kai’
‘Cobra Kai’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in the Netflix series.
Collecting Movies with Anthony Strand
Anthony Strand Interview: A conversation about movie collecting with Vague Visages contributor Greg Carlson.
VVoices: Best Space Horror Films
VVoices #5: Film Critics List the Best Space Horror Movies
Memories of Place in Sofia Coppola’s ‘The Virgin Suicides’
“Although the events in ‘The Virgin Suicides’ may not be presented through an innately nostalgic lens, they become a binding source of nostalgia by viewing the film 20 years after its initial wide release.”
Hopes and Fears in Helsinki: Pirjo Honkasalo’s ‘Concrete Night’
“The harsh dialogue may not connect, but the visuals most certainly will.”
Beat Cops: Police Brutality and Film Noir
“Otto Preminger’s ‘Where the Sidewalk Ends’ and Nicholas Ray’s ‘On Dangerous Ground’ gesture towards the difficult conditions under which police labor while turning a critical eye on the brutally violent detectives who abuse their power.”
Fantastic Fest 2016: A Talk with Director Ana Lily Amirpour on Inspiration and ‘The Bad Batch’
Marshall Shaffer Interviews Ana Lily Amirpour
Genre Whiplash: The Surprising Genius of Karyn Kusama
“By providing viewers with a satirical undertone, Kusama offers a place to rest, making the subversion of viewer expectations all the more potent.”
The Feminine Grotesque #10: Genre Is a Woman and She Has Fangs – On ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’
“After viewing ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’ for the first time, I wondered, ‘Doesn’t a woman have to be at least a little bit monstrous to survive?'”
Genre Sampling: On Iranian Vampires, Adolescent Demons, Long Nights and Shards of Kryptonite
“Tropes and archetypes are global, fitting into different national contexts while carrying with them the memory of their international itineraries.”
No Exit: Access and Isolation in Babak Anvari’s ‘Under the Shadow’
“‘Under the Shadow’ is an admirable film, albeit not wholly original.”
Double Consciousness: Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’
“‘BlacKkKlansman,’ fairly or not, will be judged as Lee’s ‘comeback’ movie. He never really left, of course.”
Seeing Double: Richard Quine’s ‘Pushover’
“As a largely disregarded noir B-side, ‘Pushover’ deliberately recalls its more famous predecessor, playing upon audience expectations of MacMurray’s screen persona to create an experience of déjà vu.”
Baby and The Driver: Motion, Music and Meaning
“‘Baby Driver’ and ‘Drive’ are not road maps to modernity, they don’t offer any route through it that guarantees a safe arrival. The only advice they might offer is to tear up the map itself. To simply drive.”
Vague Visages Short Stories: Forty Whacks by Suri Parmar
Vague Visages Short Stories #9: Forty Whacks by Suri Parmar (Toronto, Canada)
