Queer & Now & Then

Queer & Now & Then

Identity, history, cinema: Melissa Anderson, Mark Harris, Michael Koresky, Wesley Morris, and Farihah Zaman on queerness in cinema and film criticism

A big part of Film Comment’s mission is to bring well informed insights and original voices to the rich heritage of movies. One beautiful example of this is our regular column, Queer & Now & Then, written by Michael Koresky. With every column, Michael picks a single movie from a specific year for a discussion in terms of queerness, as part of what he calls, “a conversation with himself and the movies.” For our latest Film Comment roundtable talk at Film at Lincoln Center, we invited several critics to join Michael for a talk about the interconnections between their experiences and memories of movies and their sense of identity. This podcast is record of this insightful, funny, and candid conversation between Koresky, Melissa Anderson of 4Columns, best-selling author and critic Mark Harris, Wesley Morris of The New York Times, and filmmaker and critic Farihah Zaman.

This story is part of the July-August 2019 issue of Film Comment.

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