In 1995, Welcome II the Terrordome by Ngozi Onwurah became the first British film made by a Black woman to receive theatrical distribution. The film takes place in a dystopian world where Black people...

Back from vacation with our summer blockbuster episode: author, Reverse Shot co-founder and editor, and Editorial Director at Museum of the Moving Image Michael Koresky joins us to proselytize Steven ...

Just in my day-to-day life, if I am walking through the city at a very quick pace, I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of details. I might not notice that the flowers are blooming. Likewise, being in...

His films tend to observe this kind of context collapse as people, groups, communities, or even the entire world spiral. Think of the seeming imminent apocalypse of Cure, the suggested one of Charisma...

When it comes to cinematic technological advances, the question is always how we use the tools we've been gifted or cursed with.

When it comes to cinematic technological advances, the question is always how we use the tools we've been gifted or cursed with.

When it comes to cinematic technological advances, the question is always how we use the tools we've been gifted or cursed with.

When it comes to cinematic technological advances, the question is always how we use the tools we've been gifted or cursed with.

The most compelling throughline is that maybe it was absurd for brat to skyrocket in the first place, particularly in an entertainment ecosystem that requires its celebrities to be as mass market, pal...

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This is a very profoundly intimate, personal family story. So while certain dates are very important because of historical events, I wanted the 1970s to have less of that. I wanted for us to see a sen...

Zipping frenetically from one set piece to the next and incorporating a dizzying array of film types – from heist gone wrong to romantic melodrama to satirical comedy to chase thriller – Paul Thomas A...

An Esquire Best Book About Hollywood A USA TODAY Best Book of 2021 “A lovely and loving book.”—Will Schwalbe, New York Times bestselling author of The End of Your Life Book Club "I'm not sure I have...

Once we committed to the body camera footage, we were determined to live in it. We wanted to build and recreate the world that this community existed in, which you couldn't do otherwise. So, it was ch...

Looking past traditional cinema into avenues of visual media and other light-related phenomena across the online landscape�and beyond.

One Battle After Another unapologetically addresses the completely inexcusable injustices of contemporary American life while being incredibly funny, exciting, suspenseful, and poignant, particularly ...

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…

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...

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

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...

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.

Michael Koresky’s new book chronicles how queernness slipped through the cracks of the Production Code.

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...

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...