Reverse Shot's Touching the Screen home page, highlighting two articles. On the left: Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding 1 & 2, by Dan Schindel On the right: Hideo Kojima's P.T. & Metal Gear Solid V by Esther Rosenfield

Reverse Shot screenshot of an article header. Hideo Kojima: Metal Gear Solid 3 & 4 By Juan Barquin Us and Them, Over and Over Again

Reverse Shot screenshot of an article header. Hideo Kojima: Metal Gear Solid 1 & 2 By Forrest Cardamenis Play's the Thing

Reverse Shot screenshot of an article header. Hideo Kojima: Metal Gear & Snatcher By Cole Kronman Setting Out

All five essays of the Reverse Shot mini-symposium on Hideo Kojima, his career, and his themes, have officially made it up. I encourage you to read through them if you ever want a journey through his work told by five unique writers.

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Adored Richard Linklater's BLUE MOON, playing this week at NYFF and releasing soon. The film uses the breakdown of Rodgers and Hart's creative partnership to tease out age-old paradoxes between art and commerce, hope and despair, commitment and compromise. My review:
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We're in the thick of our ongoing coverage of NYFF 2025. Check out our in-depth reviews with more titles added daily.
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One Battle After Another One Battle After Another unapologetically addresses the completely inexcusable injustices of contemporary American life while being incredibly funny, exciting, suspenseful, and poignant, particularly ...

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is a succinct description of organizing/activism, raising a kid, or just trying to exist in this fuckin’ country. I wrote about Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest for @reverseshot.bsky.social: reverseshot.org/reviews/entr...

The exquisite, deeply moving SUNSET SONG today at 4 p.m. at Museum of the Moving Image with star Agyness Deyn in person!
This big-screen must-see closes out the series Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past.
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Day 3 of MoMI's Terence Davies series features a triple dose of sublime cinema: his sole documentary OF TIME AND THE CITY, Gena Rowlands in THE NEON BIBLE (in 16mm, with costar Jacob Tierney in person), and Davies's devastating final film, BENEDICTION.
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If you don't know THE TERENCE DAVIES TRILOGY—his first 3 shorts—then you don't know Terence Davies. Some of the most indelible images you'll ever see.
Screening this Sat afternoon, once only, in imported 35mm prints at Museum of the Moving Image.
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Sick and Dirty A blazingly original history celebrating the persistence of queerness onscreen, behind the camera, and between the lines during the dark days of the Hollywood P…

We're talking ROPE tomorrow with Michael Koresky on our first ever Hitchcock pod! Michael wrote about the film extensively in his latest book—Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness—which you really REALLY should get your hands on soon

Julian Glander (Boys Go to Jupiter) One takeaway I hope people get from the movie is that through all of this rot and through everything, there are things that are worth paying attention to, and they're happening all around you. And I t...

BOYS GO TO JUPITER, with its timelessly melancholic portrait of youth situated in a ravaged economy, is one of my fave films of the year. I talked to Julian Glander about how Blender changed his life, eggs, and being on Jeopardy! for @reverseshot.bsky.social: reverseshot.org/interviews/e...

if you have not seen the House of Mirth, then you haven't seen one of the best movies of the last 25 years

Excited to announce in-person guests celebrating the great Terence Davies at MoMI in Sept: Cynthia Nixon (A QUIET PASSION), Agyness Deyn (SUNSET SONG), Jacob Tierney (THE NEON BIBLE), and Sony Pictures Classics' Michael Barker (THE HOUSE OF MIRTH). More info here:
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Taxi zum Klo This column focuses on the dynamic or below-the-surface nature of queer representation in international cinema.

I wrote about the classic queer film TAXI ZUM KLO for Reverse Shot ( @reverseshot.bsky.social ). It's currently playing at The Metrograph in NYC and you should definitely go watch it if you can.

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Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past – Museum of the Moving Image Join us in celebrating the life and career of Terence Davies with this complete retrospective, the first in the U.S. since his death. From the unfathomably moving, aesthetically revelatory autobiograp...

Come to Museum of the Moving Image in September to celebrate one of the greatest artists the cinema has ever known. Announcing the complete retrospective Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past:
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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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