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Some of the world’s great directors did their finest work during a time of terrible conflict and loss.

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...

Yolanda Machado is a Los Angeles–based first-generation Peruvian Mexican American entertainment writer, editor, and critic. She is a digital editor for Entertainment Weekly. Before her time at EW, she was a film critic for the Wrap, and she has also...

John Wray is a regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. His novels include Lowboy, Godsend, and The Lost Time Accidents.

D. A. Miller, who taught for many years at the University of California, Berkeley, is most recently the author of Hidden Hitchcock (University of Chicago Press) and Second Time Around: From Art House to DVD (Columbia University Press).

Roxane Gay is a writer of books, essays, short stories, comic books, graphic novels, film, and television. She splits her time between Los Angeles and New York, and that’s something she never thought she would say.

Amanda Lee Koe is the author of Ministry of Moral Panic and Delayed Rays of a Star. Born in Singapore, she has spent time in Beijing and Berlin. She now lives in New York.

Jean Ma is the author of Melancholy Drift: Marking Time in Chinese Cinema (2010), Sounding the Modern Woman: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema (2015), and At the Edges of Sleep (forthcoming). She teaches film and media studies at Stanford University.

John Pym, who edited sixteen annual editions of the Time Out Film Guide, is the author of a monograph on Preston Sturges’s The Palm Beach Story and two books on the Merchant Ivory partnership. He was educated in England and...

Stephanie Zacharek is the film critic at Time. She was a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist for her work at the Village Voice.