Published by Film at Lincoln Center

Michael Koresky

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

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