Cloud Like Pulse, the conceit imagines a nightmare scenario in which an aspect of technologically modulated human interaction breaches the borders of reality�here, online harassment.

For @reverseshot.bsky.social I talked about alienation, sigma cinema, and the master Kiyoshi Kurosawa's new movie Cloud reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

I’ve been an avid reader of Reverse Shot and its marvellous coterie of writers for years, so it’s a honest thrill to make my debut there, on Ari Aster’s prickly, perverse, brilliant EDDINGTON. (Thank you to Michael Koresky for being a dream editor.)

Pleased to have the estimable @guylodge.bsky.social‬ on Ari Aster's savage and brilliant doomscroll western EDDINGTON:‪
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Great talking to Nic!

Tonight!

Subtext and Text: On Michael Koresky’s Sick and Dirty — Crooked Marquee Michael Koresky’s new book chronicles how queernness slipped through the cracks of the Production Code.

At Crooked Marquee this week I wrote about Michael Koresky's fantastic new book SICK AND DIRTY: HOLLYWOOD'S GAY GOLDEN AGE AND THE MAKING OF MODERN QUEERNESS. This is what great critical writing is all about. (Not mine, his.)

📅 Tues. 6/10 @ 7PM: We are exicted to welcome Michael Koresky in store for a discussion of his new book "Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness". He will be joined in conversation by arts journalist Loren King. Learn more: buff.ly/ptCRQG9

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Publication day!

Caught by the Tides As the financial health of the film industry deteriorates, it will necessitate smaller crews, fewer shooting days, and various other constraints . . . Caught by the Tides represents a different kind o...

CAUGHT BY THE TIDES stands as a testament to the film medium’s long-term possibilities. Read @fcardamenis.bsky.social on Jia Zhangke's brilliant new song on 21st-century China.
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Come to the official SICK AND DIRTY bookstore launch event at Rizzoli Bookstore on June 4! Should be a fun discussion with the terrific @isaacbutler.bsky.social—and, of course, a great opportunity to grab a copy.
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I'm thrilled to share my @reverseshot.bsky.social debut, a review of Songs of Slow Burning Earth. A huge thanks to Michael for his wonderful edits and for the Reverse Shot Writers Workshop. It gave me a much needed injection of inspiration and motivation. t.co/4wB2fpZMsh

Here's all of our #FirstLook2025 writing in one place. Thanks to all the writers and filmmakers who made it such a special week.
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Philippe Lesage (Who by Fire) Lesage is not looking for easy answers in his work, and he is adamantly opposed to telling his audience who to root for. While his films are darkly funny, they are also the inheritors of a more seriou...

Philippe Lesage's terrific WHO BY FIRE explores the moribund passions of the middle-aged, contrasting them with the dizzying, uninitiated passions of youth.
Opens this week. Read our new interview with Lesage from Chris Shields:
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Carson Lund's EEPHUS is "ultimately about a space of ritual and community coming to a close."
Read @cadenmgardner.bsky.social's review:
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After many years in the making, I'm very excited to share the news that my book "SICK AND DIRTY: Hollywood's Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness" is coming from @BloomsburyPub in June. You can preorder now! geni.us/sickanddirty

Resurrection of the Little Match Girl This column focuses on the dynamic or below-the-surface nature of queer representation in international cinema.

We are pleased to present a new column on international queer cinema. The first is from @kimchimarx.bsky.social on RESURRECTION OF THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL and how its accidental queerness unlocks new possibilities for Korean cinema and language.
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Zeinabu irene Davis (Compensation) when I initially designed the sound, I wanted there to be a full expression of it for deaf and hard of hearing audiences to actually feel the sound design. Deaf people can experience sound. But they d...

For Reverse Shot, I spoke with Zeinabu irene Davis about the rejuvenation of her incredible classic COMPENSATION — a film I think is one of the great films about Chicago, deafness and Black life.

Presenting our Top Ten films of 2024. In honor of David Lynch, for whom words of analysis were somewhat inimical to cinema, we acknowledge that this magazine’s writing has only ever been an attempt at understanding that which we often cannot fully grasp.
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Flow (Gints Zilbalodis Interview) The silent approach makes the otherworldly encounters even more striking. The animals, of course, do not have the vocabulary for what they are seeing�thus it becomes a test for the audience in turn,...

breaking from album excitement to say that FLOW, one of the best animated films of the year, is hitting select US cinemas today (it goes nationwide from Dec 6).

I interviewed the director Gints Zilbalodis a couple months back in for Reverse Shot: reverseshot.org/interviews/e...

A Complete Unknown Its willingness to paint sixties establishment folkies as potentially just as extractive as their more legibly villainous record mogul counterparts would have meant something if the film had any inter...

"Mangold buys into and then repackages the hype of Bob Dylan without much care spent on what happens when we treat artists as prophets instead of observers or laborers."
@frankfalisi.bsky.social reviews A COMPLETE UNKNOWN:
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