Boks

Leonard Quart is Professor Emeritus of Cinema Studies at the College of Staten Island and the CUNY Graduate Center, as well as a contributing editor of Cineaste. His books include American Film and Society Since 1945 (coauthored with Albert Auster)...

Tag Gallagher has written books on John Ford and Roberto Rossellini, as well as numerous articles, and produced video analyses of Rossellini, Ford, Ophuls, Hawks, Preminger, Dreyer, and von Sternberg.

Geoffrey O’Brien’s books include The Phantom Empire; Sonata for Jukebox; The Fall of the House of Walworth; Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film, 2002–2012; Where Did Poetry Come From: Some Early Encounters; and Arabian Nights of 1934.

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,...

Ian Buruma writes about a broad range of political and cultural subjects for major publications, most frequently the New York Review of Books. He teaches at Bard College. His books include Behind the Mask, God’s Dust, Playing the Game, The...

Joan Acocella is the dance critic of the New Yorker. Among her books are Mark Morris and Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints, a collection of essays.

Mark Polizzotti’s most recent books are Why Surrealism Matters and Jump Cuts: Essays on Surrealism, Film, Music, Culture, and Other Utopian Topics.

Dina Iordanova directs the Institute for Global Cinema and Creative Cultures at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Her most recent books are Film Festivals and the Middle East (2014) and The Cinemas of Paris (2015).

Dore Ashton is an author and critic. Her books include The Delicate Thread: Teshigahara’s Life in Art; Noguchi East and West; About Rothko; A Critical Study of Philip Guston; A Fable of Modern Art; and The New York School: A...

Matt Zoller Seitz is the editor at large of RogerEbert.com, a staff writer for New York magazine, and the author or coauthor of best-selling books on film and television, including “Mad Men” Carousel, “The Sopranos” Sessions, the multivolume Wes Anderson...