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Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan is a New York–based film writer and curator, and U.S. programmer and selection committee member of the Venice Film Festival. From 2003 to 2006, she was the codirector of the Torino Film Festival. Among her books are...
Enno Patalas founded Filmkritik magazine in 1957. From 1972 to 1994, he served as director of the Munich Filmmuseum, where he was instrumental in the reconstruction of several classic films. His most recent books are Alfred Hitchcock and Metropolis in...
Peter von Bagh is a Finnish film historian, author, television and radio director and producer, book publisher, and film director. From 1970 to 1985, he was curator and program director of the Finnish Film Archive. Since 1971, he has been...
Stuart Klawans was the film critic for the Nation from 1988 to 2020. His books include Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order; Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges; and, most recently, My Strange Love: Selected Film...
James Harvey is a playwright, essayist and critic. He is the author of Movie Love in the Fifties and Romantic Comedy in Hollywood, from Lubitsch to Sturges. His work has appeared in the New York Review of Books and the...
Molly Haskell is a critic and author whose books include From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies; Love and Other Infectious Diseases; Frankly, My Dear: “Gone with the Wind” Revisited; and Steven Spielberg: A Life in...
Andrew Sarris (1928–2012) was a longtime critic at the Village Voice (from 1960 to 1989) and the New York Observer (from 1989 to 2009), and the author of numerous books, including The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929–1968 and “You...
Dec 2, 2025 — In a string of short films he made in the 1920s, Man Ray brought a restlessly inventive spirit to a young medium, pushing the boundaries of cinematic form with frenetic editing, abstract imagery, and surrealist camera tricks.
May 20, 2025 — A film about and against everything, this astonishingly original comedy attacks Big Brother, the bomb, and the incipient collapse of our planetary ecosystem, along with the lies that stop us from recognizing all of the above.
May 11, 2021 — Dorothy Arzner’s deeply cynical portrait of marriage exemplifies the director’s ambivalence toward the norms dictating female behavior, wielding ironic detachment to mask one woman’s simmering inner turmoil.