Know the Cast & Characters: ‘1923’
‘1923’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount+ series.
‘1923’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount+ series.
“Hugo Fregonese is a director ripe for rediscovery.”
‘1883’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Taylor Sheridan’s ‘Yellowstone’ prequel series on Paramount+.
‘The Power of the Dog’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Jane Campion’s 2021 Netflix movie.
‘The Power of the Dog’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Jane Campion’s 2021 Netflix movie.
“It is surely a disservice to reduce Campion’s filmography to a study in gender, despite the longstanding focus of so much scholarship.”
‘The Harder They Fall’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every featured song in Jeymes Samuel’s 2021 Netflix movie.
‘The Harder They Fall’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Jeymes Samuel’s 2021 Netflix movie.
“While ‘Cry Macho’ succeeds with the set-up character scenes, it fails with its overall execution.”
‘Cry Macho’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Clint Eastwood’s 2021 movie.
‘Massacre Time’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every main performer and character in Lucio Fulci’s 1966 movie.
Author Joseph B. Atkins on Filmmaker Monte Hellman’s Life and Career
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“Behold the elegance and oft-cited aesthetic minimalism with which Reichardt unfolds so many thoughts and ideas about race, representation and gender.”
“Reichardt’s story has the mythic quality of a fable, but refrains from moralising or casting judgement on the misdeeds and mistakes of its characters.”
“A lot can be said about the aesthetics of ‘The Mandalorian’ as they relate to Westerns, but even more so can be said of the thematic elements that comprise the new series.”
“‘The Great Silence’ is miles away from the graceful, operatic majesty of Leone’s more famous entries. Corbucci’s cynical vision is fashioned from a style that is brutal and spontaneous…”
“Faced with the death of its utopian hopes, the remnants of America’s counterculture split into two tendencies: the pastoral and the criminal. Its despondency was turned inwards and outwards; one side sought to build alternative structures in line with a higher authority, while the other strove to rearrange the wreckage of the existing order.”
“‘Django Unchained’ is packed with Tarantino’s postmodern trademarks, but it also has the added value of actually addressing some serious issues.”
“The cowboy is an emissary of civilisation, enduring all the hardships the elements can throw at him to create a space in which civilised values can flourish unhindered. The symbolism of the cowboy is so potent that it continues to be invoked for political gain.”