Sign up for the Film Comment Letter today to get original film writing delivered to your inbox every week! >>

Published by Film at Lincoln Center

Michael Koresky

Home Movies: Dodsworth

By Michael Koresky
May 8, 2020
William Wyler, USA, 1936; The Criterion Collection, DVD & Blu-Ray

Queer & Now & Then: 1964

By Michael Koresky
April 22, 2020
Primal scream: Flaming Creatures, Jack Smith’s spectacle of intense queer desire, is one of the most beautiful of all experimental films

Queer & Now & Then: 1965

By Michael Koresky
April 8, 2020
Brief encounter: Andy Milligan’s Vapors radiates passion, spontaneity, and a genuine drive that are unfakeable

Queer & Now & Then: 1955

By Michael Koresky
March 25, 2020
Masked man: in All That Heaven Allows Rock Hudson’s masculinity is untortured, undeniable, and unperturbed by matters of self-identity

Queer & Now & Then: 1981

By Michael Koresky
March 11, 2020
Sacred and profane: Ulrike Ottinger’s Freak Orlando is dogged in its refusal to fit easy categories

Not Buying It

By Michael Koresky
March 2, 2020
As films and film culture face brutal and witless change, love of the art form can be radical and sustaining

Queer & Now & Then: 2000

By Michael Koresky
February 26, 2020
Unmasked: from its opening scene, João Pedro Rodrigues’s O Fantasma might as well be screaming “I’m gay!”

Queer & Now & Then: 1977 and 2020

By Michael Koresky
February 12, 2020
Fabulous fascists: that there have been more gay Nazis than gay victims of Nazis on-screen is evidence of our culture’s entrenched homophobia

Queer & Now & Then: 2007

By Michael Koresky
January 29, 2020
Beneath the surface: Everyone in Céline Sciamma’s Water Lilies just wants to be adored

Queer & Now & Then: 1943

By Michael Koresky
January 15, 2020
Big deal: Patsy Kelly was a brash delight whose unapologetic openness about her life would be a persistent problem with studio gatekeepers

Queer & Now & Then: 2004

By Michael Koresky
January 2, 2020
It’s a jungle out there: in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Tropical Malady, love is transformative

Queer & Now & Then: 1910-2009

By Michael Koresky
December 18, 2019
Bah, humbug: in the many versions of A Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Past has rarely been portrayed as a properly gender-less character

Queer & Now & Then: 1936

By Michael Koresky
December 4, 2019
J'accuse!: William Wyler’s These Three is a fascinating, recalibrated tale with traces of the queer themes of its source material

Inspired: Feast of the Epiphany

By Michael Koresky
November 27, 2019
Table manners: the inspirations behind the sumptuous documentary-fiction hybrid from Koresky, Jeff Reichert, and Farihah Zaman

Queer & Now & Then: 1988

By Michael Koresky
November 20, 2019
Close to you: Todd Haynes’s Superstar uses disease as cover for a social rot so entrenched there may be no cure

Queer & Now & Then: 1969

By Michael Koresky
November 6, 2019
Bang bang: Fassbinder’s debut, Love Is Colder Than Death, is a genuinely fluid depiction of identity, sex, and love that reflected the director’s own matter-of-fact bisexuality

Queer & Now & Then: 1944

By Michael Koresky
October 23, 2019
Out of the shadows: The Uninvited’s phantom lesbianism is exhilarating in making its subtext almost visible

Queer & Now & Then: 1987

By Michael Koresky
October 9, 2019
What’s your pleasure? Clive Barker’s Hellraiser couples S&M with a heavy dose of homoeroticism that makes it an unapologetic violation of heteronormative standards

Queer & Now & Then: 1946

By Michael Koresky
September 25, 2019
Over the rainbow: The Harvey Girls offers a quintessential example of the complex Judy Garland persona, embodying her movie star effervescence yet pointing toward darker roads

Dispatch: Toronto 2019

By Michael Koresky
September 12, 2019
Love on the rocks: a report from TIFF on Marriage Story, Two of Us, Africa, and others