The Class

Nov 20, 2008 — In honor of his participation in our release of Louis Malle’s jazzy noir classic Elevator to the Gallows, we invited music critic Gary Giddins to contribute a list of his ten favorite Criterion films. Giddins: "Just ten? Obviously impossible, but...

Nov 19, 2008 — Allan Arkush is an Emmy-winning television director and executive producer of NBC’s hit series Heroes. Arkush's directing credits also include the Ramones’ cult classic Rock ’n’ Roll High School, which Rolling Stone magazine named as one of the top-10 rock...

The actor selects classic Hollywood favorites starring Cary Grant, reminisces about working at the Silent Movie Theater in Los Angeles and talks about idolizing Bette Davis’s iconic performances.

The singer-songwriter reminisces about the pleasure of discovering Czechoslovak New Wave films on trips to the video store, shares why Moonstruck ignited her Nicolas Cage fandom, and praises the use of classical music in The Piano Teacher.

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.

The legendary actor shares his love for the Akira Kurosawa classics Red Beard and Ikiru, recalls how Tatsuya Nakadai was his teacher when he first began acting, admires the visual storytelling of City Lights, and shouts out his latest collaborator,...

The writer-director talks about the Yasujiro Ozu classic that inspired his film Little Men, the underrated work of Francesco Rosi, the golden age of repertory cinema in New York City, and a college course in which he studied Shoah for...

Pamela Hutchinson is a freelance writer, critic, and film historian. She has written essays for several edited collections, and her publications include the BFI Film Classics volumes on Pandora’s Box and The Red Shoes. She writes about silent film at...

Greil Marcus is the author of Lipstick Traces, The Shape of Things to Come, and The Manchurian Candidate in the BFI Film Classics series. With Werner Sollors, he is the editor of A New Literary History of America (Harvard, 2009)....

Adam Nayman is a critic, lecturer, and author based in Toronto. He writes for the Ringer, Reverse Shot, the New Yorker, and Sight and Sound, and teaches cinema studies at the University of Toronto. He has written several books on...