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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 6d

The best thriller of 2025 is Geeta Gandbhir's harrowing documentary THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR.

For @reverseshot.bsky.social, I spoke with Gandbhir during #NYFF63 about subverting the inherent dehumanizing of police bodycam videos to empathetically record a community.

Geeta Gandbhir

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...

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chloe lizotte @celizotte.bsky.social · 10d

happy to be back @reverseshot.bsky.social with a new installment of Event Horizon! i write on David Osit’s doc “Predators” and trace Chris Hansen’s influence on online predator hunters… reverseshot.org/features/338...

All the Predators

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

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juan barquin @woahitsjuanito.bsky.social · 13d

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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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

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Hideo Kojima: Metal Gear Solid 3 & 4
By Juan Barquin
Us and Them, Over and Over Again

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Hideo Kojima: Metal Gear Solid 1 & 2
By Forrest Cardamenis
Play's the Thing

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Hideo Kojima: Metal Gear & Snatcher
By Cole Kronman
Setting Out

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reverseshot.bsky.social @reverseshot.bsky.social · 21d

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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reverseshot.bsky.social @reverseshot.bsky.social · 23d

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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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social · 27d

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...

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 ...

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reverseshot.bsky.social @reverseshot.bsky.social · Sep 21

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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reverseshot.bsky.social @reverseshot.bsky.social · Sep 14

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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reverseshot.bsky.social @reverseshot.bsky.social · Sep 11

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.
movingimage.org/event/the-te...

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

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…

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kyle 中和 turner @tylekurner.bsky.social · Aug 22

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...

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...

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

reverseshot.bsky.social @reverseshot.bsky.social · Aug 18

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:
movingimage.org/series/teren...

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reverseshot.bsky.social @reverseshot.bsky.social · Aug 18

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:
movingimage.org/series/teren...

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · Aug 14

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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Taxi zum Klo

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

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reverseshot.bsky.social @reverseshot.bsky.social · Aug 4

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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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...

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Dan Schindel @danschindel.bsky.social · Jul 18

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

Cloud

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

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · Jul 17

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.)

reverseshot.bsky.social @reverseshot.bsky.social · Jul 17

Pleased to have the estimable @guylodge.bsky.social‬ on Ari Aster's savage and brilliant doomscroll western EDDINGTON:‪
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reverseshot.bsky.social @reverseshot.bsky.social · Jul 17

Pleased to have the estimable @guylodge.bsky.social‬ on Ari Aster's savage and brilliant doomscroll western EDDINGTON:‪
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reverseshot.bsky.social @reverseshot.bsky.social · Jul 3

Great talking to Nic!

Defector @defector.com · Jul 2

Two Steps Forward, Three Steps Back: Michael Koresky on Hollywood's queer history defector.com/two-steps-fo...

Two Steps Forward, Three Steps Back: Michael Koresky On Hollywood’s Queer History | Defector

The history of mainstream filmmaking is prone to whiggish readings. The story is that Hollywood, an industry of entertainment and representation, has moved forward in a pleasing, gradually…

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reverseshot.bsky.social @reverseshot.bsky.social · Jun 16

Tonight!

IFC Center @ifccenter.bsky.social · Jun 14

Patiently waiting for Monday's screening of SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER featuring post-screening book signing and Q&A with Michael Koresky, moderated by film critic Melissa Anderson.

Nominated for three Oscars. Arguably the best Tennessee Williams adaptation!
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Sean Burns @splicedpersonality.bsky.social · Jun 12

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.)

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.

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Harvard Book Store @harvardbookstore.bsky.social · Jun 9

📅 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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reverseshot.bsky.social @reverseshot.bsky.social · Jun 5

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reverseshot.bsky.social @reverseshot.bsky.social · Jun 3

what she said!

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reverseshot.bsky.social @reverseshot.bsky.social · Jun 3

Publication day!

reverseshot.bsky.social @reverseshot.bsky.social · Feb 25

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

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