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Ti West is the writer and director of 2009’s The House of the Devil, among other critically acclaimed films. His latest, The Innkeepers, will be released in early 2012.

Graham Reznick is a director and sound designer based in Brooklyn. His hallucinatory 2008 horror feature I Can See You received rave reviews in the New York Times, Variety, and the Village Voice. Learn more about Reznick’s work at aphasiafilms.com.

Michael Almereyda’s most recent film, Tesla, was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. His previous films include Nadja, Hamlet, William Eggleston in the Real World, Experimenter, and Marjorie Prime.

Francis J. Murphy, a specialist in the history of modern France, taught at Boston College for more than thirty years. Among his many publications are several articles and two books concerning Père Jacques, including a biography, Père Jacques: Resplendent in...

Slavoj Žižek, philosopher and psychoanalyst, is codirector of the International Center for Humanities, Birkbeck College, London. Among his numerous publications are The Fright of Real Tears: Krzysztof Kieślowski Between Theory and Post-Theory and The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On...

James Naremore is author of An Invention Without a Future: Essays on Cinema (2014), Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge (2017), and Film Noir: A Very Short Introduction (2019). His website is JamesNaremore.net.

Peter Guralnick has written extensively on American music and musicians. His books include a prize-winning two-volume Elvis Presley biography, Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love, and Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke. He is currently at work on...

Cyril Neyrat has served on the editorial board of Cahiers du cinéma and as editor in chief of the film journal Vertigo. His film criticism has been published internationally in periodicals, in catalogs, in collected volumes, and on the website...

Pico Iyer is the author of fifteen books, including The Lady and the Monk, about his first year in Japan, and twinned books, Autumn Light and A Beginner’s Guide to Japan, about his thirty-first.

David Schickler is the author of the novels Kissing in Manhattan and Sweet and Vicious. He lives in Rochester, New York, with his wife and children.