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Queer & Now & Then

Queer & Now & Then: 1980

By Michael Koresky
October 10, 2018
Room service: an infamous scene in The Shining points to the uncontainable forces at work in Kubrick's poised but volatile universe

Queer & Now & Then: 1997

By Michael Koresky
September 26, 2018
Making mock: Christopher Guest’s Waiting for Guffman presents a flamboyant comic figure in Corky St. Clair

Queer & Now & Then: 1960

By Michael Koresky
September 12, 2018
Homme fatale: the surpassing beauty of Alain Delon in Purple Noon is a lethal weapon that the actor wields without mercy

Queer & Now & Then: 1989

By Michael Koresky
August 29, 2018
Deliver me: Derek Jarman’s War Requiem illuminated hidden histories of feeling as it shone a light on the ravages of war

Queer & Now & Then: 1928

By Michael Koresky
August 15, 2018
Heroine worship: in Princess Mandane, the pioneering Germaine Dulac subverts the traditionally male-driven realm of derring-do

Queer & Now & Then: 1999

By Michael Koresky
August 1, 2018
Hide and seek: Doug Liman’s Go negotiates complicated waters despite its seemingly ephemeral indie-also-ran existence

Queer & Now & Then: 1971

By Michael Koresky
July 18, 2018
Organized mutiny: William Greaves’s reflexive landmark Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One has more than meta-shenanigans on its mind

Queer & Now & Then: 1953

By Michael Koresky
July 4, 2018
Woman to woman: Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell's Little Rock strivers have a stronger bond that ultimately outshines even the razzle-dazzle and riches around them

Queer & Now & Then: 1985

By Michael Koresky
June 20, 2018
Stronger together: Buddies by Arthur J. Bressan Jr. faced the AIDS crisis with a drama of courage and grace

Queer & Now & Then: 1974

By Michael Koresky
June 6, 2018
Out of the past: Christopher Larkin’s post-Stonewall gay love story A Very Natural Thing emphasizes positivity