The Criterion Collection
Roger Durling has been the executive director of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival for twenty-three years. He has been teaching film studies at Santa Barbara City College for just as long. He helped edit a book on Alfonso Cuarón’s...
Sue Harris is a UK film academic and the author of numerous articles, essays, and books on French films, filmmakers, and production practices. She is Professor Emerita of Film at Queen Mary University of London.
Leo Goldsmith is an assistant professor of culture and media at the New School, a film critic, and a programming advisor for the New York Film Festival.
Jim Cirronella is a science-fiction and horror film aficionado who has contributed to the Criterion Collection’s Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975 and Night of the Living Dead editions.
Originally from Mexico City, Carlos Aguilar is a Los Angeles–based film critic and journalist. Aguilar’s work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Variety, and IndieWire, among others. He is a member of...
Bruce Wagner is a screenwriter and novelist. At the Cannes Film Festival, Julianne Moore won the Best Actress award for her portrayal of Havana Segrand in Maps to the Stars (2014), written by Wagner and directed by David Cronenberg.
Samm Deighan is a film historian and programmer, the author of The Legacy of World War II in European Arthouse Cinema, and the editor of Revolution in 35 mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the...
Guy Lodge is the UK film critic for Variety, a weekly home-entertainment columnist for the Observer, and coeditor of Film of the Week. Born and raised in South Africa, he is now based in London.
Pauline Chen is the author of the novels The Red Chamber and Peiling and the Chicken-Fried Christmas. She has taught Chinese literature, language, and film at Oberlin College and the University of Minnesota.
McKenzie Wark is a professor of culture and media at the New School. She is the author of, among other things, Reverse Cowgirl (Semiotext(e)) and Raving (Duke University Press). Life Story, a short film she made in conversation with Jessica...