The Criterion Collection
Antonio Monda teaches in the Film and Television Department at New York University. He is the director of several documentaries as well as the feature film Dicembre. He is the artistic director of the literary festival Le Conversazioni. A columnist...
Peter Guralnick has written extensively on American music and musicians. His books include a prize-winning two-volume Elvis Presley biography, Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love, and Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke. He is currently at work on...
David Cairns is a critic and filmmaker. He blogs at Shadowplay and teaches in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Paul Ryan (1952–2022) was a writer and singer whose books include Never Apologise: The Collected Writings of Lindsay Anderson.
Cyril Neyrat has served on the editorial board of Cahiers du cinéma and as editor in chief of the film journal Vertigo. His film criticism has been published internationally in periodicals, in catalogs, in collected volumes, and on the website...
Nick Roddick (1945–2019), a former editor at Screen International, taught film and theater at universities in the UK, Ireland, and the U.S. before becoming a journalist in the early 1980s. He contributed regularly to the London Evening Standard and Sight...
Pico Iyer is the author of fifteen books, including The Lady and the Monk, about his first year in Japan, and twinned books, Autumn Light and A Beginner’s Guide to Japan, about his thirty-first.
Francine Prose’s latest book is 1974: A Personal History. She is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.
Scott MacDonald is the author of the series A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers, now in five volumes, as well as seven other books about independent cinema, including, most recently, Adventures of Perception: Cinema as Exploration (2009). He teaches...