Josie Riesman

Josie Riesman

NYT-bestselling authoress of RINGMASTER and TRUE BELIEVER.

Favorite films

  • Children of Men
  • Paris Is Burning
  • Akira
  • Yentl

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  • Ponyo

    ★★★★

  • Howl's Moving Castle

    ★★★

  • Yentl

    ★★★★★

  • Policeman

    ★★★★★

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  • Yentl

    Yentl

    ★★★★★

    My only demand: a Yentl Cinematic Universe that explores The American Adventures of Yentl and Hadass’s lesbian awakening

  • The Long Goodbye

    The Long Goodbye

    ★★★

    Oh, what a repugnant creature, the male of the species. Matches lit in our loins, but a little too shaggy to really shag. “Harry — your father was a mohel...”

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  • Another Country

    Another Country

    ★★★★★

    Mao said politics emanates from the barrel of a gun, but you could just as easily say the same about a switch used to thwack the bottom of an English schoolboy. Genius in its understatement, torture in its implications. Last-line hall of famer.

  • Starship Troopers

    Starship Troopers

    ★★★★

    I mean, I get it.

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