Published by Film at Lincoln Center

Michael Koresky

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

Queer & Now & Then: 1956

By Michael Koresky
January 16, 2019
A regular fella: Vincente Minnelli's Tea and Sympathy questions definitions of masculinity in what the filmmaker called "the first homosexual picture"

Queer & Now & Then: 1970

By Michael Koresky
January 2, 2019
Burn, Hollywood, burn: the scandalizing Myra Breckinridge and its fearless star Raquel Welch will not be forgotten!

Outside the Main Stream

By Michael Koresky
January 2, 2019
The movies we love are ours forever—or are they?

Queer & Now & Then: 1949

By Michael Koresky
December 19, 2018
New beginning: Gregory Markopoulos's beautiful experimental film Christmas U.S.A. explores identity and doubling at a landmark postwar moment

Queer & Now & Then: 2013

By Michael Koresky
December 5, 2018
Under the radar: in Pit Stop, future Ballad of Buster Scruggs star Bill Heck impressed smaller audiences in a queer drama, like others before him

Queer & Now & Then: 1995

By Michael Koresky
November 21, 2018
Friends and allies: Jodie Foster's Home for the Holidays is a Thanksgiving classic that understands deeply the comfort and the harm that family can offer