Review: Laurent Bouzereau’s ‘Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind’
“Trying to free Wood from the enormous shadow cast by her death is no small feat. ‘Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind’ doesn’t quite manage the task…”
Vague Visages Is FilmStruck: Stefen Styrsky on Elia Kazan’s ‘Splendor in the Grass’
“The movie isn’t just about the way it was, the prudish hypocrisy of an earlier time, or outdated sexual mores. For all its provincialism, ‘Splendor in the Grass’ is a story for the ages.”
Vague Visages Is FilmStruck: Jeremy Carr on John Ford’s ‘The Searchers’
“Trailing World War II’s devastation and the associative confirmation of just what mankind can propagate, so much of the film’s constitution derives from a reflective glimpse at the challenging state of the American soul…”
Small Tokens of Faith in John Ford’s ‘The Fugitive’ and Martin Scorsese’s ‘Silence’
“In between Ford’s wide shots and Scorsese’s close-ups, there is an effort by each filmmaker to make faith real.”
Vague Visages Short Stories: Bleeding and Breathing Deeply by Q.V. Hough
Vague Visages Short Stories #7: Bleeding and Breathing Deeply by Q.V. Hough (Fargo, North Dakota)
My Summer of Kirsten Dunst: Volume 1
“Unlike former child stars Natalie Wood or Margaret O’Brien, Kirsten Dunst’s adolescent career is a state of becoming.”
Capitolo 20: Mi Fido Di Te / Ermanno Olmi’s ‘I fidanzati’
A Series on Italian Cinema by Q.V. Hough
Review: Josephine Decker’s ‘Thou Wast Mild and Lovely’
Simmering with sensuality, the second feature from NYC filmmaker Josephine Decker enraptures with vivid imagery while establishing a burning fire of abstract connotations.