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Nov 19, 2024 | 
criterion.com | Michael Koresky
Essays— Nov 19, 2024 Barbra Streisand’s embodiment of vaudeville legend Fanny Brice in Funny Girl (1968) is more than iconic—it’s hardwired into American culture. When we think about William Wyler’s adaptation of the 1964 Broadway musical, what initially comes to mind is Fanny’s indomitability.
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May 31, 2024 | 
filmcomment.com | J. HOBERMAN |Michael Koresky |Clinton Krute |Ela Bittencourt
From the March-April 2020 IssueAlso in this issueSubscribe to the magazineIf Heimat Is a Space in Time were a fiction film like A Hidden Life or Jojo Rabbit (to name two recent features glossing over the worst episode of Germany’s recent past), it would be an avant-garde masterpiece—a narrative interweaving multiple voices, including that of the state, eschewing transitions, and alternately doubling back on itself or jumping unexpectedly into the future.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
bloodvine.com | Laura Wynne |Tom Phelan |Michael Koresky |Ann Olsson
Mario Bava was a living embodiment of Italian genre cinema, working credited and uncredited on nearly a hundred films. He was a cinematographer, a special-effects artist, and a gifted visual stylist. He shot and, by some accounts, ghost-directed much of Ricardo Freda’s I Vampiri (1957), the first Italian horror film produced after Mussolini’s ban on the genre. Bava got around set-decoration issues by taping postcards to the camera. He made rubber monsters in the ’50s.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
reverseshot.org | Michael Koresky |Chloe Lizotte |Mark Asch |Chris Wisniewski
By Michael Koresky
| November 15, 2023
Haynes is doing something extraordinarily delicate and difficult in May December, reminding viewers, with the lightest of touches, that we are all implicated and indulgent in the processes of social, cultural, and sexual exploitation that define the modern consciousness.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
reverseshot.org | Michael Koresky
The Face of Another By Michael Koresky May December Dir. Todd Haynes, U.S., Netflix Do you want to know what happened? In the early nineties, Gracie Atherton, a thirty-something woman working at a pet shop in Savannah, was caught having sex with junior high-schooler Joe Yoo. The dalliance with the underage boy led to Gracie’s arrest and, after a lengthy, public, and highly sensationalized trial, imprisonment for statutory rape.
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Nov 3, 2023 | 
reverseshot.org | Michael Koresky
I Can’t Make You Love Me Michael Koresky Revisits Southland Tales If I’ve learned anything from the last 15 or so years of social media–degenerated film criticism, it’s that it’s a waste of time fretting over differences of opinion.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Michael Koresky
The new fund seeks UK partners to deliver targeted project development labs, awarding up to £150,000 per programme. The new BFI National Lottery Creative Challenge Fund opens today seeking applications from UK screen organisations and production companies to create and run targeted project development labs for features or immersive projects. Awarding up to £150,000 to each development programme, this is the first of five rounds of the fund, which will have a different ‘challenge’ set each time.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Michael Koresky
The films will be released alongside January’s Werner Herzog retrospective at BFI Southbank. BFI Distribution announces today the forthcoming UK-wide theatrical release of the new feature documentary Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (2022) directed by Thomas von Steinaecker. This comprehensive portrait of the iconic German filmmaker opens in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on 19 January 2024.
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Oct 15, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Michael Koresky
The BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express today announces the winners of this year’s LFF Awards. The competition sections are a celebration of the most exciting, innovative new films and cinematic storytelling; creative, beautiful and often provocative, the films showcase an incredible range of talent from across the world.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Kieron Corless |Ben Walters |Michael Koresky |Sam Wigley
In tribute to the late Terence Davies, Kieron Corless recalls the overwhelming experience of watching Davies’ 2008 film Of Time and the City, his witty and opinionated ode to Liverpool. 9 October 2023By Kieron CorlessWhen was it? 2006? 2007? Memory lane is full of cracks and potholes nowadays. The tube pulls up. I step in, sit down. I’m soon aware there’s no-one else in the carriage apart from a bespectacled white-haired man sitting right opposite. “You’re Terence Davies!” I blurt it out involuntarily.
