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Lesley Brill is the author of The Hitchcock Romance (Princeton, 1988) and John Huston's Filmmaking (Cambridge, 1997). He teaches film studies at Wayne State University, Detroit.

Lizzie Francke has written about film for Sight & Sound and the Guardian and is the author of Script Girls: Women Screenwriters in Hollywood. From 1997-2001, she was the Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. She now works...

Peter Matthews is a senior lecturer in film and television at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. He is also a regular contributor to Sight & Sound.

Vida T. Johnson is professor of Russian film and culture at Tufts University and the co-author, with Graham Petrie of The Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue, Indiana University Press, 1994.

Li Cheuk-to is General Manager of the Hong Kong International Film Festival and the author of Notes on Hong Kong Cinema of the Eighties and Gallery of Vivid Images.

Film music specialist Gillian B. Anderson has restored the original scores to over 30 films. She has recorded Nosferatu (Murnau) and Carmen (De Mille), and is the author of Music for Silent Films 1894-1929.

William Rothman is the author of the landmark study Hitchcock–The Murderous Gaze as well as three other books on film. He is Director of the Graduate Program in Film Studies at the University of Miami.

Richard Schickel is a film critic for Time. His latest book, Matinee Idylls, which was named a New York Times Notable Book, has recently been reprinted in paperback.

James Harvey is a playwright, essayist and critic. He is the author of Movie Love in the Fifties and Romantic Comedy in Hollywood, from Lubitsch to Sturges. His work has appeared in the New York Review of Books and the...

Todd McCarthy is the chief film critic for the Hollywood Reporter and for many years held the same position at Variety. His books include the biography Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood, and he is an award-winning writer and...