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Durga Chew-Bose is a writer and editor based in Montreal. Her debut collection of essays,Too Much and Not the Mood (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), was published in 2017.
Having begun her career in radio journalism in 1981, at the age of nineteen, Elvira Lindo went on to become an acclaimed novelist as well as a writer for television and film. She is a weekly contributor to El País,...
Shonni Enelow is the author of Joanna Hogg (Contemporary Film Directors series, University of Illinois Press, 2024) and Method Acting and Its Discontents (Northwestern, 2015) and the coauthor of A Discourse on Method (53rd State, 2020). Her film writing has...
Ashley Clark is the curatorial director at the Criterion Collection. Previously, he worked as director of film programming at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and he has curated film series at BFI Southbank, the Museum of Modern Art, and TIFF...
David Forgacs is Professor of Contemporary Italian Studies at New York University. His recent publications include a history of violence in modern Italy. His other contributions for the Criterion Collection include a filmed interview on Miracle in Milan (Vittorio De...
Michael Anderegg’s books include Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture; Cinematic Shakespeare; and, published in 2015, Lincoln and Shakespeare.
Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, producer, and acquisitions executive for Severin Films. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022),...
Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa is a filmmaker and film professor at Columbia College Chicago. Her book Abbas Kiarostami, cowritten with Jonathan Rosenbaum, was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2003.
Michael Brooke is a freelance writer and multimedia producer specializing in British and central/eastern European cinema. A regular contributor to Sight & Sound, he has also produced acclaimed DVD and Blu-ray editions of the work of Walerian Borowczyk, the Quay...
James Robison has won a Whiting Award for his short fiction and a Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his first novel, The Illustrator. His work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, the New...