Michael Koresky
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Michael Koresky

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Michael Koresky is the author of Sick and Dirty: Hollywood's Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness (Bloomsbury), Films of Endearment (Hanover Square Press), and Terence Davies (University of Illinois Press, Contemporary Film Directors).

Koresky is the Senior Curator of Film at New York's Museum of the Moving Image. Previously he was Director of Editorial and Creative Strategy for Film at Lincoln Center; Director of Publications and Marketing for New York's Metrograph Theater; and Managing Editor and Staff Writer for The Criterion Collection. He continues to write for The Criterion Collection, and is the host and curator of the Criterion Channel series Queersighted. He has also written for Film Comment, Sight & Sound, Cinema Scope, The Village Voice, Film Quarterly, Cineaste, and Filmmaker, and he co-founded and edits Reverse Shot, a Museum of the Moving Image publication (“an online film journal whose continued existence asserts the vibrancy of both films and journals”—The Wall Street Journal). Koresky was named one of the "100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture" by Brooklyn Magazine in 2016.
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    • Release date: 2025-06-03
    • Language: English
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