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Michael Koresky

Queer & Now & Then: 1959

By Michael Koresky
September 11, 2019
Missing persons: Joseph Mankiewicz’s Suddenly, Last Summer is fascinating and pleasurably aberrant, a miracle of queer impropriety.

Lost and Found

By Michael Koresky
September 3, 2019
Pedro Almodóvar taps into both the anguish and the eroticism of memory in Pain and Glory, his most personal film yet

Queer & Now & Then: 2019

By Michael Koresky
August 28, 2019
Looking back: Lucio Castro’s End of the Century is a temporally unexpected work in which possible pasts and potential futures intermingle to create an unstable now

The Big Screen: Where’d You Go, Bernadette

By Michael Koresky
August 14, 2019
In his latest, Richard Linklater confronts the gap between youthful expectation and the specter of failure

Queer & Now & Then: 1951

By Michael Koresky
August 14, 2019
School days: Jacqueline Audry’s melodrama Olivia all but luxuriates in an always imminent queer lust

Queer & Now & Then: 1975

By Michael Koresky
July 31, 2019
Cleaning up well: Saturday Night at the Baths is part charmingly awkward coming-out narrative, part document of a disappearing culture

Queer and Now and Then: 2002

By Michael Koresky
July 17, 2019
Mise en abyme: the exhilaration of Femme Fatale comes from its constant, absolute awareness of sex and identity as performances

Queer & Now & Then: 1935

By Michael Koresky
July 3, 2019
Red alert: the discomforts of George Cukor’s Sylvia Scarlett are precisely what have given the film its longevity as an object of curiosity and affection

Queer & Now & Then: 1967

By Michael Koresky
June 19, 2019
Up close and personal: Frank Simon’s The Queen portrays unashamed gay men inhabiting their own bodies—and clothes—with pride

Queer & Now & Then: 1993

By Michael Koresky
June 5, 2019
Beyond a non-kiss: Six Degrees of Separation is a fascinating and multifaceted inquiry into class, race, and sexuality with an excellent Will Smith

Queer & Now & Then: 1942

By Michael Koresky
May 22, 2019
A queer duck: masculinity, social progress, and comeuppance in The Magnificent Ambersons

Queer and Now and Then: 2011

By Michael Koresky
May 8, 2019
Ring of truth: Dee Rees‘s Pariah shows how the act of looking is as essential to sexual identity as the act of being

Queer & Now & Then: 1950

By Michael Koresky
April 24, 2019
Obscure object: the explicit imagery of Jean Genet's Un chant d’amour has perhaps overwhelmed discussion of its supple construction

Queer & Now & Then: 1966

By Michael Koresky
April 10, 2019
Two of a kind: if looked at through the right queer lens, Bergman's Persona could be among the most penetrating break-up movies ever made

Queer & Now & Then: 1940

By Michael Koresky
March 27, 2019
Dignified options: Dorothy Arzner's Dance, Girl, Dance is a case study for how Hollywood comedy could convey vivid queerness beneath a seemingly formula exterior

Queer & Now & Then: 1976

By Michael Koresky
March 13, 2019
Growing up: Terence Davies's Children's simplicity of form belies a complex network of narrative crosshatches

Short Take: Climax

By Michael Koresky
March 1, 2019
Disco inferno: youth culture gets a taste of its own medicine in Gaspar Noé’s apocalyptish musical

Queer & Now & Then: 1994/2015

By Michael Koresky
February 28, 2019
Architectures of desire: Tsai Ming-liang's Vive L’Amour and No No Sleep saturate the screen with psychosexual intensity

Queer & Now & Then: 1983

By Michael Koresky
February 13, 2019
Even beyond its female, queer Jewishness, there’s something about Yentl that made people uncomfortable: Streisand’s chutzpah

Queer & Now & Then: 1991

By Michael Koresky
January 30, 2019
Images of possibility: Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied was and remains a radical work of American art