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On the Channel
Sep 24, 2018 — Professor David Bordwell breaks down the stunningly innovative thirteen-minute prologue of Alain Resnais’s debut feature in this excerpt from a program on the Criterion Channel.
On the Channel
Mar 26, 2018 — In a new episode of Observations on Film Art, now streaming on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck, professor David Bordwell talks about Wong Kar-wai’s innovative use of narrative structure in Chungking Express.
J. J. Murphy is a professor emeritus of film at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of four major books on independent cinema, including Rewriting Indie Cinema: Improvisation, Psychodrama, and the Screenplay (Columbia University Press, 2019) and The...
Markus Nornes is professor of Asian cinema at the University of Michigan, where he specializes in Japanese film, documentary, and translation theory. He is also a filmmaker and film-festival programmer. His most recent book, the open-access Brushed in Light, is...
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Glen Helfand is an independent writer, curator, and educator. He is an associate professor at California College of the Arts.
Charles Ramírez Berg is a professor of film studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written extensively on film history, Latinos in U.S. film, Mexican cinema, and narratology. His most recent book is The Classical Mexican Cinema:...
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,...
Sam Rohdie is professor of cinema studies at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of Montage, Promised Lands, Fellini Lexicon, Rocco and His Brothers, The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Antonioni. This piece originally appeared in...