The Criterion Collection
A founder of Italian neorealism, this Italian master brought to filmmaking a documentary-like authenticity and philosophical stringency that came to define modern cinema.
Jun 30, 2008 — The novelist Mishima Yukio stepped behind the camera to adapt his own short story, which depicts the act of seppuku as a thing of beauty.
Harmony Holiday is the author of several collections of poetry and numerous essays on music and culture. Her collection Maafa came out in April 2022.
Odie Henderson is a film critic for RogerEbert.com and a member of the National Society of Film Critics. He has contributed essays to such publications as Slate, Vulture, the Village Voice, and Slant Magazine, and has appeared on NPR’s Pop...
Jeb Brody joined Amblin Partners in 2017 and is currently president of production. He and Holly Bario oversee films produced under the company’s Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures banners, where he recently executive produced the Academy Award-nominated 1917 and the...
Dan Callahan is the author of Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman (2012), Vanessa: The Life of Vanessa Redgrave (2014), two volumes of The Art of American Screen Acting (2018 and 2019), The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitchcock (2020), and the...
Mark Harris is a journalist and film historian, and the author of Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), and Mike Nichols: A Life (2021).
Emma Wilson teaches European cinema and literature at the University of Cambridge. She has written on Pedro Almodóvar’s films previously in her monographs Cinema’s Missing Children (2003) and Love, Mortality and the Moving Image (2012). Her latest book is The...
Georgina Evans lectures on European cinema at the University of Cambridge in England.
Dana Polan teaches cinema studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is the author of eight books on film and cultural studies, including a volume on Jane Campion in the British Film Institute’s World Directors series,...