The Criterion Collection
Tom Gunning is Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. He is the author of D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film (University of Illinois Press, 1991) and The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and...
David Sterritt is a contributing writer at Cineaste, a film professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art, the former film critic of the Christian Science Monitor, and past chair of the National Society of Film Critics. His books include...
Fred Camper is an artist who makes digital prints, mostly photo-based, and has for many decades been a writer and lecturer on film and art. He lives in Chicago, where he teaches at Columbia College Chicago and the School of...
Michael Atkinson writes regularly for the Village Voice and Sight and Sound, and teaches at Long Island University. His books include Exile Cinema (SUNY Press) and Blue Velvet (British Film Institute), which was reissued in a new edition in 2021.
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History at Queen Mary, University of London, where he directs a research project on the history of the British Film Institute. He is the editor of The Oxford History of...
Jeanine Basinger is the Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, the founder and curator of the Wesleyan Cinema Archives, and the founding chair of the Film Studies Department at Wesleyan University. She is the author of eleven books on film, as...
Barbara Scharres is the director of the Film Center at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Short Takes
May 16, 2017 — Two decades after its premiere, the groundbreaking IFC Channel show Split Screen celebrated its anniversary with a Criterion Live! event, presented last Wednesday in partnership with the Film Society of Lincoln Center and FilmStruck. Series creator and host John Pierson...