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David Cairns is a critic and filmmaker. He blogs at Shadowplay and teaches in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Mark Rappaport is a filmmaker and writer. His films include Rock Hudson’s Home Movies and From the Journals of Jean Seberg. He is a regular contributor to the French film magazine Trafic, edited by Raymond Bellour. A collection of his...
Filmmaker Richard Linklater originally presented this tribute at the 2000 South by Southwest in Austin, TX, as an introduction to a special screening of Two-Lane Blacktop, part of a retrospective of Hellman's work that Linklater helped coordinate. It also appeared...
Guy Maddin is a filmmaker who has made ten features, including Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1989), Brand upon the Brain! (2006), and My Winnipeg (2007), as well as many shorts. He holds the position of Distinguished Filmmaker in Residence...
Writer, filmmaker, and broadcaster Kevin Jackson (1955–2021) was the author or editor of more than thirty books. He contributed regularly to Sight and Sound, the Guardian, and BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Review, and his documentary work included coproducing Humphrey Jennings:...
Kent Jones is a filmmaker and writer. His films include the documentary Hitchcock/Truffaut and the fiction features Diane and Late Fame. He is the author of several books of criticism.
Rick Preligner is an archivist and filmmaker living in San Francisco. He is currently directing Danger Lurks, an all-archival narrative feature film.
Filmmaker and theorist Laura Mulvey is the author of the groundbreaking 1975 essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." A Collection of her more recent writings has been published by the BFI as Fetishism and Curiosity (1996).
Godfrey Cheshire, a New York–based filmmaker and critic, is the author of Conversations with Kiarostami and In the Time of Kiarostami: Writings on Iranian Cinema (forthcoming).