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Thomas Rimer is a professor of Japanese Literature and Theater at the University of Pittsburgh and has been published widely on various aspects of Japanese theater, literature, and cultural history.
Nick Pinkerton is a Cincinnati-born, Brooklyn-based writer focused on moving-image-based art. His writing has appeared in Film Comment, Sight & Sound, Artforum, frieze, Reverse Shot, 4Columns, Harper’s, the Baffler, and the Village Voice, among other publications
Neil Sinyard is emeritus professor of film studies at the University of Hull in the UK. He has published twenty-five books on the cinema, including studies of such directors as Billy Wilder, William Wyler, Alfred Hitchcock, Fred Zinnemann, Steven Spielberg,...
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...
Ian Buruma writes about a broad range of political and cultural subjects for major publications, most frequently the New York Review of Books. He teaches at Bard College. His books include Behind the Mask, God’s Dust, Playing the Game, The...
Joan Acocella is the dance critic of the New Yorker. Among her books are Mark Morris and Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints, a collection of essays.
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...
Nick James is the former editor of Sight and Sound magazine. His book on Michael Mann’s Heat was published in 2002. He has written for many publications and is a frequent contributor to Sight and Sound and the Observer.
Audie Bock is the author of Japanese Film Directors and Mikio Naruse: A Master of the Japanese Cinema, as well as the translator of Akira Kurosawa’s memoir, Something Like an Autobiography. She has taught Japanese cinema at colleges and universities...