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A thriller Top 10: Check out K Narayanan’s essential Hitchcock watchlist

Enormously influential, this film is credited with inventing the slasher-horror genre. It remains Alfred Hitchcock’s best-known film. It is also his only movie to have sparked a franchise. . * Vertigo...

If you love Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, watch these 33 obscure French films next

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is out now and the critics agree: it is very, very French. While Sandfall Interactive’s RPG has been praised for its inventive storytelling and stylish visuals, its country...

Esther McGregor Can Do It All—but for Now, She’s Focused on Acting

Her father is Ewan McGregor—who knows about the galactic dark side too—and her mother is Eve Mavrakis, an art director and production designer for films. Last year McGregor put her own spin on her fam...

The Sensori-Motor City

How can we measure the ways in which we perceive, are affected by, act and reflect on the nature of the city? The human body is a sensor-motor apparatus within a mutually moving nature-culture continu...

Review: Rob Tregenza's 'The Fishing Place'

Vague Visages’ The Fishing Place review contains minor spoilers. Rob Tregenza’s 2024 movie features Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Andreas Lust and Frode Winther. Check out the VV home page for more film criticism, movie reviews and film essays. Is it disrespectful to Holocaust victims to keep mining their trauma for the sake of making an emotional impact in cinema? And can any contemporary movie set during World War II have a deep resonance now that we’re so far removed from it, or do filmmakers simply...

Why Steven Spielberg's 'Jurassic Park' Was Controversial in France

Back in 1993, French civilization faced its greatest foe yet, and it had nothing to do with Nazis or CGI dinosaurs. More specifically, the French film industry revolted against Jurassic Park. The coun...

Apoorva Choudhar Wins at Cult Critic Movie Awards: A Grounded (and Slightly Grinning) Victory

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30 Iconic Directors From All Over The World and their Best Films

Film directors are the masterminds behind the magic, the real wizards of the silver screen. While actors may get all the glory, it’s the directors who pull the strings, calling the shots (literally) a...

Benicio del Toro and Mia Threapleton in Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux assured members of the press assembled in Paris on Thursday morning that th...

Esther McGregor Can Do It All—but for Now, She’s Focused on Acting

“I’ve been acting since I came out of my mom’s stomach, ” says Esther McGregor. But not many people got to see her performances, she adds, since most were limited to her family’s living room. “My parents never let me do anything onscreen until I was ...