As you have already guessed from the headline, this is not a queer reappraisal of Nora Ephron’s John Travolta-starring angel flick Michael. No: This is an exactly 100-year-old silent German expressionist romance between a painter and his model. “We’ll ooh and aah at the German Expressionism,” WLV writes in their event copy, “marvel at just how gay things were a century ago, and maybe cry a tiny bit about gay loneliness… together!” For all the streaming-pilled media babies in the audience who might quake when confronted with a silent film – buck up, baby. Few things stink as much as a queer philistine. – James Scott