The Criterion Collection
Alexandra Hidalgo is an award-winning Venezuelan filmmaker, theorist, and editor whose documentaries have been official selections for film festivals in fourteen countries and screened at universities around the United States. Her videos and writing have been featured by the Hollywood...
So Mayer is the author of Truth & Dare (2023), A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing (2020), Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema (2015), and The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Love (2009), and the coeditor of...
Valzhyna Mort is a poet and translator whose third book of poetry, Music for the Dead and Resurrected, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Born in Minsk, Belarus, she teaches at Cornell University and writes in English and Belarusian.
Ela Bittencourt works as a critic and curator in the U.S. and Brazil and consults for a number of international film festivals. She also runs the film site Lyssaria.
Lauren Groff is the author of five books. Her two most recent, the story collection Florida and the novel Fates and Furies, were both finalists for the National Book Award.
Moeko Fujii is a scholar and critic whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Aperture, the New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. She writes a regular column on film for Orion magazine.
Carol Cooper is a New York City–based arts and culture critic who teaches as adjunct faculty at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music. She has published a book of critical essays titled Pop Culture Considered as an Uphill Bicycle...
Michelle Parkerson is an award-winning filmmaker based in Washington, D.C., whose work has screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, and the American Film Institute. She has documented the lives of LGBTQ icon Audre Lorde (A Litany...
Emily Nussbaum is the Pulitzer Prize–winning television critic for the New Yorker. She is the author of I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution.
Steve Massa is the author of Slapstick Divas: The Women of Silent Comedy and Lame Brains and Lunatics: The Good, The Bad, and The Forgotten of Silent Comedy. He has organized and curated comedy film programs for the Museum of...