The Man

"Life caught unawares," that's how Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov defined the principle and art of documentary in the thirties. Yet the documentary has taken so many forms over the past century that it is too simple to call it the...

Jan 4, 2007 — As we get back from vacation, the e-mail boxes are full. Kim, several of the other producers, and I have been doing our best to get to it all, but it’s beginning to pile up. We’ve been pretty good about...

D. A. Miller, who taught for many years at the University of California, Berkeley, is most recently the author of Hidden Hitchcock (University of Chicago Press) and Second Time Around: From Art House to DVD (Columbia University Press).

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, who has written on Cuban arts and history for many years, is the author of Island People: The Caribbean and the World. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and teaches at NYU.

Chandak Sengoopta, born and educated in Kolkata, is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. The author of many scholarly and popular essays on the cultural contexts of Satyajit Ray’s work and its reception, he was recently awarded...

Dennis Lehane is the author of many novels, including Gone, Baby, Gone (1998); Mystic River (2001); and Small Mercies (2023).

Toby Miller teaches Cinema Studies at New York University and is the author of many books on culture. He is the editor of Television & New Media.

Jan 23, 2024 — Close contenders include Poor Things, Killers of the Flower Moon, Barbie, and Maestro.

Dec 12, 2022 — Critics, the European Film Academy, and the International Documentary Association spent the weekend listing and awarding.

Nov 15, 2022 — An ongoing series spotlights films by women directors made in eastern Europe during the Soviet era.