La barracca/The Hut

Chris Darke is a writer and film critic based in London. His work has appeared in Film Comment, Sight & Sound, Trafic, and the Independent. He is also the author of Light Readings: Film Criticism and Screen Arts, a monograph...

Chris Morris is music editor of the Hollywood Reporter, columnist for Los Angeles CityBeat, and host of Watusi Rodeo on Indie 103.1 in Los Angeles. He received a Grammy Award nomination for his liner notes for Rhino Records’ 2003 box...

Michael Musto is the author of the popular, long-running "La Dolce Musto" column in the Village Voice. His compilation book, also called La Dolce Musto, is due out from Carroll Graf in January 2007.

Irene Bignardi was the film critic for the Italian daily La repubblica for fifteen years and later the director of the Locarno Film Festival. She is now critic at large for La repubblica and the author of Memorie estorte a...

Christopher Faulkner is a professor of film studies and the director of the interdisciplinary Cultural Mediations Ph.D. program at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He is the author of The Social Cinema of Jean Renoir and, with Olivier Curchod, La Règle...

Tullio Kezich wrote the biography Fellini and a diary of the shooting of La dolce vita. He also cowrote the screenplay for The Legend of the Holy Drinker with Ermanno Olmi. This piece previously appeared in the Criterion Collection’s 2001...

Manohla Dargis is the film director for the L.A. Weekly.

John Powers has been the film critic for LA Weekly, Vogue, and NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, where he is presently critic at large. He’s the cowriter (with Wong Kar Wai) of the 2016 book WKW: The Cinema of...

Jan 23, 2024 — In the first ten years of her extraordinary career, the Belgian filmmaker used the raw materials of quotidian, marginal lives to spark a radical reinvention of cinema.

Nov 21, 2023 — What stuck with me most after watching La cérémonie (1995) for the first time was the chewing gum.It’s not the scene most often cited in discussions of this late-career classic from French thriller master Claude Chabrol. Don’t get me wrong:...