Published by Film Society of Lincoln Center

Michael Koresky

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

Queer & Now & Then: 1978

By Michael Koresky
November 7, 2018
On the verge: Chantal Akerman’s Les Rendez-vous d’Anna locates sexual fluidity in an otherwise stultifying modern world

Queer & Now & Then: 1963

By Michael Koresky
October 24, 2018
Blithe spirit: for the two women in Robert Wise's adaptation The Haunting, there is more to reckon with than the possibility of a supernatural presence

Sing Your Life: Marnie at the Met

By Michael Koresky
October 19, 2018
Red alert: the story of trauma famously portrayed in Hitchcock’s film now takes flight as an opera

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

Review: A Star Is Born

By Michael Koresky
October 4, 2018
Evergreen: Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga compete for the realness prize in the fourth version of the well-known Hollywood tale

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

Festivals: Toronto 2018

By Michael Koresky
September 13, 2018
North of the border: Barry Jenkins, Claire Denis, and Alex Ross Perry convey uncompromising visions, and Joel Edgerton directs Boy Erased

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

The Paragon of Animals

By Michael Koresky
September 4, 2018
With their multi-part yarn The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the Coen Brothers mosey on back to the Old West to survey the eternal disappointment that is man

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