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Jun 17, 2013 — The author recounts the story of his friendship with the great filmmaker.

Mar 27, 2012 — Written in five or six days in 1941, in a seaside hotel where he had gone to get away from the Blitz, and by all accounts scarcely revised before being mounted some six weeks later, Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit became...

Dec 14, 2009 — Almost sixty years ago, George Bernard Shaw died at age ninety-four, leaving behind an unfinished play. Tonight, in New York, that final work from the Pygmalion writer, Why She Would Not, will be presented in a reading by the Gingold...

Feb 22, 2011 — This week, Time is all too happy to judge a movie by its cover. Gilbert Cruz, an editor at the magazine, has compiled a list called “Top 10 Cool Criterion Collection Covers.” Cruz’s taste in design tends toward illustration over...

Jan 8, 2016 — In March of 1967, Bosley Crowther, then the film critic for the New York Times, wrote about Orson Welles’s Chimes at Midnight, penning what is now considered one of his most famously wrong-headed reviews.

Aug 12, 2009 — Nathan Lee is a critic, curator, and unrepentant champion of Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. A former film critic for the New York Times, the Village Voice, and NPR, he is a contributing editor of Film Comment and member of the...

Jamelle Bouie is a columnist for the New York Times Opinion section and the cohost of the podcast Unclear and Present Danger. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Sarah Weinman is the author of The Real Lolita, Scoundrel, and Without Consent, and the editor of Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning and Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & ’50s....

Chris Vognar is a culture journalist. He writes for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications. He is a former Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard University.

Julian Kimble has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, GQ, the Ringer, and other publications.