The Criterion Collection
Peter Guralnick has written extensively on American music and musicians. His books include a prize-winning two-volume Elvis Presley biography, Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love, and Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke. He is currently at work on...
Peter von Bagh is a Finnish film historian, author, television and radio director and producer, book publisher, and film director. From 1970 to 1985, he was curator and program director of the Finnish Film Archive. Since 1971, he has been...
Peter Brunette is Reynolds Professor of Film Studies at Wake Forest University and the author of books on Rossellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and, most recently, the Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai.
Peter Matthews is a senior lecturer in film and television at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. He is also a regular contributor to Sight & Sound.
Peter Occhiogrosso's authorized book, Inside Spinal Tap, was republished by Little, Brown in London after being out of print for many years. It has just been remaindered.
Peter Bondanella is the chairman of West European Studies at the University of Indiana at Bloomington, and is the author of The Cinema of Federico Fellini (Princeton).
Peter Cowie has been a specialist in Swedish cinema since the 1960s and has provided commentaries for numerous films in the Criterion Collection. His biography of Ingmar Bergman will appear in late 2023.
The musician selects classic love stories like I Know Where I’m Going! and The Earrings of Madame de . . ., talks about the dramatic suspense of Elevator to the Gallows, and reenacts a favorite moment from Band of Outsiders.
Starting out as a leading figure in Australia’s 1970s film renaissance, this acclaimed director went on to achieve critical and commercial success in Hollywood.
During a trip to what he calls our “city of movies,” the director of Afire talked about the jazzy qualities of Steven Soderbergh’s films, the inspiration he has taken from Preston Sturges, and an overpoweringly erotic moment in Stromboli.