‘Gomorrah’ Filmmakers Cast Dane DeHaan for Roberto Saviano Adaptation ‘ZeroZeroZero’
Vague Visages News: Q.V. Hough on Amazon’s New Series ‘ZeroZeroZero’
Review: Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson’s ‘Ghost Stories’
“Nyman and Dyson’s film is so full-bloodedly cinematic that it leaves one wondering how on earth they captured this on the stage.”
Vague Visages Writers’ Room: Weekend Vibes 4.20.18
Weekend Vibes is a Friday column about streaming recommendations, new release hype and entertainment events.
Daveed Diggs Ubers Hard in ‘Blindspotting’ Trailer
Vague Visages News: Q.V. Hough on the ‘Blindspotting’ Trailer
Calendars, Storms and Coming Home: Rituparno Ghosh’s ‘Unishe April’
“To understand Ghosh’s cinema, it is important to understand the director’s gradual but persevering separation from gender binaries and roles.”
Loneliness and the Romance of Death: On Alain Guiraudie’s ‘Stranger by the Lake’
“In us all lurks a potential Franck — desperate for intimacy, willing to risk oblivion for a moment’s embrace.”
Escapism in Dark Places: How ‘Allure’ Accurately Captures Despair
“Carlos and Jason Sanchez’s ‘Allure’ might be one of the most beautifully distressing movies of the past year.”
Vague Visages Writers’ Room: Weekend Vibes 4.13.18
Weekend Vibes is a Friday column about streaming recommendations, new release hype and entertainment events.
Album Review: A Place to Bury Strangers ‘Pinned’
“With ‘Pinned,’ A Place to Bury Strangers shows that the band’s exploration of ‘one good idea’ continues to yield amazing results.”
Vague Visages Writers’ Room: Favorite New Wave Films
In the Vague Visages Writers’ Room on Slack, freelancers were asked to comment about their favorite new wave films from any international movement.
Las Palmas Film Festival Review: Guy Maddin’s ‘The Green Fog’
“Coherence is the last concern in ‘The Green Fog,’ whose beauty is comprised in the hidden connections between the city-film tropes.”
Portraits of Women in Film Noir
“Film noir is all about questioning assumptions, and several of such films that feature portraits of women do nothing less.”
Las Palmas Film Festival Review: Vahid Jalilvand’s ‘No Date, No Signature’
“‘No Date, No Signature’ excels by subtly examining themes of integrity and moral duties.”
Photo Essay by Andy Witchger: Dessa at Minneapolis’ First Avenue
Dessa, Minneapolis’ multi-hyphenate MC, took the stage at a sold out First Avenue on Friday night, April 6, 2018.
Las Palmas Film Festival Review: Ya-chuan Hsiao’s ‘Father to Son’
“The father’s strength lies in knowing when to ‘protect the heart by pretending to have no heart,’ and the moment when he chooses to do so is devastating.”
Review: John Krasinski’s ‘A Quiet Place’
“‘A Quiet Place’ masterfully builds tension, pays it off in unexpectedly satisfying ways and provokes genuine emotional investment in its characters with precious few traditional tools at its disposal.”
Vague Visages Writers’ Room: Weekend Vibes 4.6.18
Weekend Vibes is a Friday column about streaming recommendations, new release hype and entertainment events.
Album Review: Bambara ‘Shadow on Everything’
“If David Lynch had set ‘Twin Peaks’ in rural Georgia, then Bambara could have composed the soundtrack.”
Vague Visages Short Stories: Forty Whacks by Suri Parmar
Vague Visages Short Stories #9: Forty Whacks by Suri Parmar (Toronto, Canada)
Review: Lynne Ramsay’s ‘You Were Never Really Here’
“Ramsay and Phoenix eloquently communicate the trappings of depression, and how it grips the sufferer.”