Know the Cast: ‘The Bombardment’
‘The Bombardment’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Ole Bornedal’s 2021 movie.
Soundtracks of Cinema: ‘Against the Ice’
‘Against the Ice’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Peter Flinth’s 2022 Netflix movie.
Know the Cast: ‘Against the Ice’
‘Against the Ice’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Peter Flinth’s 2022 Netflix movie.
On Sundance FOMO, Classic French Cinema and ‘The Last Tycoons’
“‘The Last Tycoons’ is a helpful guide for the multi-tasking cinephile who wants to better understand French cinematic movements, such as La Nouvelle Vague, and the industry as a whole.”
Know the Cast: ‘Munich – The Edge of War’
‘Munich – The Edge of War’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Christian Schwochow’s 2022 Netflix movie.
Know the Cast: ‘The Last Duel’
‘The Last Duel’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Ridley Scott’s 2021 movie.
Know the Cast: ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’
‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Joel Coen’s 2021 movie.
Know the Cast: ‘The Electrical Life of Louis Wain’
‘The Electrical Life of Louis Wain’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Will Sharpe’s 2021 Amazon Prime movie.
Review: Ridley Scott’s ‘The Last Duel’
“The ‘cinematic’ moviegoing experience is gradually taking shape once more, not just the notion of spectacle, but stimulation of the mind and conscience.”
Of Netflix, Napoleon and the French Film Heritage
How did the French film industry suddenly change its attitude towards Netflix? And how did Netflix become an advocate for film heritage preservation? Here’s a report by Alina Hirschhausen.
Review: Soleil Moon Frye’s ‘Kid 90’
“‘Kid 90’ is a story that could have used more unguarded introspection.”
Know the Cast: ‘Worth’
‘Worth’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Sara Colangelo’s 2021 Netflix movie.
Memory and Style: The Threads of a Collective Experience in Marcel Ophuls’ ‘The Sorrow and the Pity’
“‘The Sorrow and the Pity’ is surgical and functional, yet unquestionably a reflection of the imagination of an artist.”
‘State Funeral’: Joseph Stalin’s Grand and Ominous Farewell Procession Revisited
“Loznitsa’s ‘State Funeral’ is an important reflection on the moving image.”
Review: Alexis Cahill and Brigitte Drodtloff’s ‘Queen Marie’
“‘Queen Marie’ may not be a modern historical classic, but its wink-of-the-eye moments subtly inform the audience about the filmmakers’ intent. That, I can appreciate.”
Why Criticism: The Difficulties of Depicting Genocide in ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ and ‘La Llorona’
“Roger Ebert once wrote ‘it’s not what a film is about, it’s how it is about it,’ and it’s this phrase that I usually return to when thinking about cinema that deals with humanity’s worst impulses.”
Glasgow Film Festival Review: Min-Ho Woo’s ‘The Man Standing Next’
“Both emotionally and narratively, ‘The Man Standing Next’ is an easy story to get lost in.”
In Praise of 90s Gwyneth Paltrow
“It’s easy to feel a sense of loss for the great actress and movie star that Paltrow could have become, had she not lost interest in the profession and shifted her attention to her questionable business empire.”
Fantasia 2020 Review: Sabrina Mertens’ ‘Time of Moulting’
“It may seem strange to qualify Mertens’ audaciously original production as ‘horror’ when it has no gory set pieces, jump scares, monsters or special effects. Yet, despite a lack of these things, ‘Time of Moulting’ is very much a horror film.”
Dreams and Horrors in Bohemia: ‘Marketa Lazarová’ and ‘Valerie and Her Week of Wonders’
“As much as I love a good story, the best movies always transport me, in an intangible sense, through the base elements.”