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Queer & Now & Then

Queer & Now & Then: 1982

By Michael Koresky
May 23, 2018
No place like home: Robert Altman’s Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean centers on a vibrantly portrayed transgender character

Queer & Now & Then: 1947

By Michael Koresky
May 9, 2018
Not up to code: in Edward Dmytryk’s Crossfire, the unspoken motivations for murder loom large

Queer & Now & Then: 1996

By Michael Koresky
April 25, 2018
Dream a little dream: Hettie Macdonald’s quiet landmark Beautiful Thing offers a non-miserable look at marginalized Londoners

Queer & Now & Then: 1992

By Michael Koresky
April 11, 2018
No fear, no die: Sally Potter’s classic New Queer Cinema adaptation of Virginia Woolf emphasizes freedom from everything—except the past

Queer & Now & Then: 2018

By Michael Koresky
March 28, 2018
The new normal: Love, Simon plays to its imaginary audience—but also plays it safe

Queer & Now & Then: 1932

By Michael Koresky
March 14, 2018
Terrors of the flesh: in addition to racebending, The Mask of Fu Manchu builds its horrors from homoerotic torture

Queer & Now & Then: 1968

By Michael Koresky
February 28, 2018
Sitting on the sidelines: Paul Newman’s 1968 film about a small-town schoolteacher’s sexual awakening dared to make its lesbian character sympathetic

Queer & Now & Then: Introduction/1979

By Michael Koresky
February 14, 2018
Toward the lights on Broadway: in the inaugural edition of this new biweekly column, thoughts on the confusions and challenges of growing up a gay movie-watcher and Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz