Love

Dec 29, 2008 — If I had not seen The Lady Vanishes at the age of seven, I might never have become a film critic. I was the fifth child of parents well into middle age: clearly an “accident,” as I was ten-years-plus younger...

Nov 20, 2008 — Neil LaBute, director of In the Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors, and Nurse Betty, has contributed supplemental interviews to two Criterion DVD editions: Mike Leigh’s Naked and Eric Rohmer’s Love in the Afternoon, the latter available in our...

Aug 19, 2002 — René Clair’s musical comedy comprises a window on a particular lost black and white neverworld—bouncy with melody, soaked in spring light, wistful about the conflicted relationship between serendipity and love.

Mayukh Sen is the author of Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star (2025), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. He teaches film and television reporting and criticism at New York University and...

So Mayer is the author of Truth & Dare (2023), A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing (2020), Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema (2015), and The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Love (2009), and the coeditor of...

Russell Harbaugh is the writer-director of Love After Love and teaches screenwriting at Hofstra University.

Moira Weigel is an assistant professor of comparative literature at Harvard University. She is the author of Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating (2016) and editor, with Ben Tarnoff, of Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What...

Emma Wilson teaches European cinema and literature at the University of Cambridge. She has written on Pedro Almodóvar’s films previously in her monographs Cinema’s Missing Children (2003) and Love, Mortality and the Moving Image (2012). Her latest book is The...