Film

Richard Schickel is a film critic for Time. His latest book, Matinee Idylls, which was named a New York Times Notable Book, has recently been reprinted in paperback.

Todd McCarthy is the chief film critic for the Hollywood Reporter and for many years held the same position at Variety. His books include the biography Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood, and he is an award-winning writer and...

Phillip Lopate’s latest book is A Mother’s Tale. He has written extensively on the movies for the Criterion Collection, Film Comment, Cineaste, and the New York Times and is a professor at Columbia University.

Chris Fujiwara is the author or editor of several books on film, including Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall, The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger, and Jerry Lewis.

Armond White’s film criticism has been published internationally. His collected pop culture criticism appears in the book The Resistance: Ten Years of Pop Culture That Shook the World.

Michael Atkinson writes regularly for the Village Voice and Sight and Sound, and teaches at Long Island University. His books include Exile Cinema (SUNY Press) and Blue Velvet (British Film Institute), which was reissued in a new edition in 2021.

One of the first feminist film theorists, Claire Johnston (1940–1987) was the author of Notes on Women's Cinema (1973).

Geoffrey Nowell-Smith is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History at Queen Mary, University of London, where he directs a research project on the history of the British Film Institute. He is the editor of The Oxford History of...

Molly Haskell is a critic and author whose books include From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies; Love and Other Infectious Diseases; Frankly, My Dear: “Gone with the Wind” Revisited; and Steven Spielberg: A Life in...

Rick Preligner is an archivist and filmmaker living in San Francisco. He is currently directing Danger Lurks, an all-archival narrative feature film.