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Alan Williams is the author of Republic of Images: A History of French Filmmaking, and is a professor of French at Rutgers University.

Dennis Lim is the artistic director of the New York Film Festival and the author of David Lynch: The Man from Another Place (2015) and Tale of Cinema (2022).

Stuart Klawans was the film critic for the Nation from 1988 through 2020.

Ed Halter is a founder and director of Light Industry, a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn, and teaches as Critic in Residence at Bard College. His writing has appeared in 4Columns, Artforum, the Village Voice, and elsewhere.

Paul Arthur is the author of A Line of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965 (University of Minnesota Press). He is a regular contributor to Cineaste and Film Comment and is coeditor of Millennium Film Journal.

Noah Baumbach wrote and directed the films White Noise, Marriage Story, and The Squid and the Whale.

Born and raised in London, David Thomson is the author of A Biographical Dictionary of Film and, most recently, The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film, among many other books.

Jonathan Lethem is the author of thirteen novels, including Chronic City and Brooklyn Crime Novel. His writings and commentaries on film include the monograph They Live; liner notes for releases of Robert Siodmak’s The Killers, Thom Andersen’s Red Hollywood, Orson...

Donald Richie has written widely on Japanese film and is the author of the seminal book The Films of Akira Kurosawa (University of California, 1965; revised 1998).

The late Ronald Haver was a noted film historian and film curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.