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Allison Anders is an award-winning film and television writer and director who got her first professional break working for her mentor, Wim Wenders, on his movie Paris, Texas (1984). Her feature debut was Border Radio (1987), cowritten and codirected with...
David Jenkins worked on the film desk at Time Out London and is now editor of the film magazine Little White Lies. He is coeditor and author of the book What I Love About Movies and contributed chapters to the...
Charles Taylor writes about movies for the Yale Review and teaches creative writing and journalism at New York University. He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles...
Jim Ridley (1965–2016) wrote about movies for the Nashville Scene, an alternative newsweekly in Nashville, as well as Cinema Scope, the Village Voice, and LA Weekly.
Megan Abbott is the award-winning author of twelve crime novels, including the New York Times best seller The Turnout. Her latest novel, the national best seller El Dorado Drive, was published in June 2025. Formerly a writer on HBO’s The...
Lou Lumenick is the chief film critic of the New York Post. He has also written for Moving Image Source and been a guest programmer for Turner Classic Movies.
Annie Baker is a playwright living in Brooklyn. An anthology of her work, The Vermont Plays, is available from TCG. Her most recent play, The Flick, deals with movie love.
Steven Vineberg is the author of Method Actors: Three Generations of an American Acting Style; No Surprises, Please: Movies in the Reagan Decade; and High Comedy in American Movies. He teaches theater and film at College of the Holy Cross,...
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...
Leonard Quart is Professor Emeritus of Cinema Studies at the College of Staten Island and the CUNY Graduate Center, as well as a contributing editor of Cineaste. His books include American Film and Society Since 1945 (coauthored with Albert Auster)...