In his new book Films of Endearment, filmmaker and critic Michael Koresky revisits the important and popular female-driven films of the 1980s he grew up watching with his mother—9 to 5, Terms of Endearment, The Color Purple, and Aliens, to name a few—to trace out a poignant personal history of family, grief, and resilience. Mark Harris (Pictures at a Revolution) joined Koresky at Greenlight for a conversation that spanned women in film, queerness, the art of criticism, and the enigma of how we form our tastes and identities in relation to the characters we love on- and offscreen. (Recorded May 18, 2021)
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