Film

Monte Hellman, a protégé of legendary producer/director Roger Corman, is best known for a pair of Jack Nicholson Westerns, as well as the cult film favorites Two-Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter, and China 9 Liberty 37. He has also worked as a...

Lisa Dombrowski is the author of The Films of Samuel Fuller: If You Die, I’ll Kill You! and the editor of Kazan Revisited. She has written for the New York Times, Film Comment, Film Quarterly, Film History, and the Velvet...

Colin MacCabe is Distinguished Professor of English and Film at the University of Pittsburgh. His most recent film production is The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (2015). His collection Perpetual Carnival: Essays on Film and Literature was...

Mark Rappaport is a filmmaker and writer. His films include Rock Hudson’s Home Movies and From the Journals of Jean Seberg. He is a regular contributor to the French film magazine Trafic, edited by Raymond Bellour. A collection of his...

Charles Musser is a professor of film and media studies at Yale University. His seventy-two-minute documentary Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch recently premiered at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.

Geoffrey O’Brien’s books include The Phantom Empire; Sonata for Jukebox; The Fall of the House of Walworth; Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film, 2002–2012; Where Did Poetry Come From: Some Early Encounters; and Arabian Nights of 1934.

Glenn Kenny writes film reviews for the New York Times and RogerEbert.com, and has contributed to the Criterion Collection website. He is the author of Made Men: The Story of “Goodfellas” (Hanover Square Press, 2020).

Nick Pinkerton is a Cincinnati-born, Brooklyn-based writer focused on moving-image-based art. His writing has appeared in Film Comment, Sight & Sound, Artforum, frieze, Reverse Shot, 4Columns, Harper’s, the Baffler, and the Village Voice, among other publications

Neil Sinyard is emeritus professor of film studies at the University of Hull in the UK. He has published twenty-five books on the cinema, including studies of such directors as Billy Wilder, William Wyler, Alfred Hitchcock, Fred Zinnemann, Steven Spielberg,...

Mark Polizzotti’s most recent books are Why Surrealism Matters and Jump Cuts: Essays on Surrealism, Film, Music, Culture, and Other Utopian Topics.