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We were excited to welcome author and TCM host Alicia Malone into the closet, where she offered up quick takes on Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru, Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout, and David Lynch’s Eraserhead.

Oct 12, 1998 — Inspired by the stranger-than-fiction true story of identical twin gynecologists, David Cronenberg’s psychological thriller is a melancholic meditation on our very existence.

Lisa Morton is a screenwriter and author whose books include The Cinema of Tsui Hark (2001), Savage Detours: The Life and Work of Ann Savage (2010), and The Art of the Zombie Movie (2023). Her film writing includes articles about...

Bruce Wagner is a screenwriter and novelist. At the Cannes Film Festival, Julianne Moore won the Best Actress award for her portrayal of Havana Segrand in Maps to the Stars (2014), written by Wagner and directed by David Cronenberg.

Author Ed Lin’s latest book is David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets into an Ivy League College (2020, Kaya Press).

Violet Lucca is the author of David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials. She intermittently updates her newsletter, A Closer Lucca, and is working on her audacious return to podcasting.

Carol Cooper is a New York City–based arts and culture critic who teaches as adjunct faculty at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music. She has published a book of critical essays titled Pop Culture Considered as an Uphill Bicycle...

Kevin Brownlow was a film collector at eleven and a filmmaker at fourteen. He became fascinated with the silent era and interviewed many of the pioneers, writing The Parade’s Gone By in 1968 and making the miniseries Hollywood in 1980...

Stephen Winer was one of the original writers for Late Night with David Letterman. He has also written for comedians Robert Klein and Dick Van Dyke and the Disney Channel’s The All New Mickey Mouse Club.

Melissa Anderson is the film editor of 4Columns and the author of a monograph on David Lynch’s Inland Empire from Fireflies Press.