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David Thompson writes on film, coedited the book Scorsese on Scorsese, and directs arts documentaries, often on filmmakers, including Jean Renoir, Milos Forman, and Robert Altman.
Philip Kemp is a film critic and historian, and a regular contributor to Sight and Sound.
Tony Rayns is a London-based critic with a special interest in the film cultures of East Asia. He has been awarded the Kawakita Prize (2004) and the Foreign Ministry of Japan’s Commendation (2008) for services to Japanese cinema. His books...
Howard Hampton has written for Film Comment, Artforum, and many other publications. He is the author of Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses.
Ginette Vincendeau is a professor of film studies at King’s College London. She has written widely on popular French cinema and is co–chief general editor of French Screen Studies.
David Kalat is a film historian who has been in love with the fantastique since his misspent childhood. He has written several books, including The Strange Case of Dr. Mabuse and, most recently, Too Funny for Words: A Contrarian History...
Tim Lucas is a novelist, critic, biographer, monographer, and lyricist, as well as the former editor and copublisher of the influential Video Watchdog magazine. The only journalist granted full access to the set of Videodrome, he is now the audio...
Christopher Faulkner is a professor of film studies and the director of the interdisciplinary Cultural Mediations Ph.D. program at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He is the author of The Social Cinema of Jean Renoir and, with Olivier Curchod, La Règle...
Tom Gunning is Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. He is the author of D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film (University of Illinois Press, 1991) and The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and...
David Sterritt is a contributing writer at Cineaste, a film professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art, the former film critic of the Christian Science Monitor, and past chair of the National Society of Film Critics. His books include...