Vague Visages Writers’ Room: Weekend Vibes 6.1.18
Weekend Vibes is a Friday column about streaming recommendations, new release hype and entertainment events.
Devious Dialogues: Mike Thorn and Anya Stanley on the ‘Psycho’ Franchise
“I’ll even go so far as to say that the sequel is just as satisfying as the original, in my eyes.”
‘Fatal Attraction’ at 30
“Lyne does not believe in the ‘New Man.'”
Book Review: Gender and Genre in Aaron J. French’s ‘Festival’
“On the levels of craft and form, this is undoubtedly the work of a skilled writer.”
The Aesthetic and Formal Challenges of Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Contempt’
“‘Contempt’ is a daunting and formally labyrinthine work, calling its own fallibility to question even as it submits completely to the romance of cinema.”
The Conversation: Introduction and Mike Nichols’ ‘The Graduate’
A conversation on cinema between film critics Drew Morton, Landon Palmer and Justine A. Smith.
Review: Mike Flanagan’s ‘Hush’
“‘Hush’ has some very interesting moving parts in what amounts to an average film.”
Review: Kent Jones’ ‘Hitchcock/Truffaut’
“Although it contains very little new material, Hitchcock/Truffaut will undoubtedly find a home within the film education community and could become an important tool in introducing Hitchcock’s immense body of work to hoards of “uninitiated” cinema devotees.”