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Kim Morgan is a film writer and screenwriter whose work has appeared in Sight and Sound, Filmmaker magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the New Beverly Cinema blog, as well as her own blog, Sunset Gun. She cowrote...
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...
Kenneth Turan is film critic for the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, as well as the director of the Times Book Prizes. His latest books are Never Coming to a Theater Near You and Now in...
David Chute is a Los Angeles-based writer with a special interest in Asian popular culture.
Barney Hoskyns is the author of Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes, and the Sound of Los Angeles. This piece originally appeared in the Criterion Collection’s 2002 DVD edition of Monterey Pop.
The late Ronald Haver was a noted film historian and film curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Chuck Stephens, a former contributing editor to Film Comment and columnist for Cinema Scope, lives and teaches in Los Angeles.
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Aug 3, 2026 — The American Cinematheque presents six of the eleven films Douglas Sirk and cinematographer Russell Metty made between 1952 and 1959.
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Jul 30, 2026 — Gene Tierney, Robert Kramer, Chantal Akerman, and Alfred Hitchcock are among the many personalities featured this month.
Jul 22, 2026 — The filmmaker looks back on the experiences that have shaped his creative life, including his time in art school, his work as a graphic designer and music-video director, and his early interest in documentary cinema.