Posts by Michael Koresky
Excerpt
Back to Black
By Michael Koresky
On Karen Black’s landmark performance in Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean.
First Exposure
Free Spirits
By Michael Koresky
Poltergeist is the subject of the inaugural edition of a column in which writers and filmmakers are invited to share the viewing experiences that shaped their early movie love into life-defining passions.
Essay
PG and the Power of Nightmares
By Michael Koresky
An appreciation of a particular brand of youth-aimed terror that the PG-13 rating helped eliminate.
Interview
Terence Davies
By Michael Koresky
The preeminent British auteur discusses his progression as a cinephile and filmmaker, from earliest moviegoing experience to his most recent disappointments in the theater.
Essay
Just One Look
By Michael Koresky
The imprint from a mere glimpse of Terence Davies’s The Long Day Closes lingers for years.