Thora Siemsen

Thora Siemsen is a writer and library worker living in Colorado. She contributed an essay on Kim Novak to the inaugural issue of The Metrograph. Her other recent writing on film has been featured in 4Columns and Interview, as well as in the collection DO NOT DETONATE Without Presidential Approval: A Portfolio on the Subjects of Mid-Century Cinema, the Broadway Stage and the American West (Pushkin Press, 2023), edited by Jake Perlin.

Interview

Haley Mlotek

by Thora Siemsen

The writer on the movies, places, and people that helped shape her new book.

Interview

Gregg Araki

by Thora Siemsen

New Queer Cinema pioneer Gregg Araki speaks to Thora Siemsen about road movies, mortality, and why there’s no sex in cinema anymore.