The Criterion Collection
Jun 26, 2014 — “These are ten films that tickle me in the right places,” says Academy Award–nominated production designer K. K. Barrett, who’s helped visualize the worlds of such films as Being John Malkovich, Lost in Translation, Where the Wild Things Are, and...
The world’s most famous Finnish filmmaker excels at a distinctive and effortless mix of scalpel-sharp comedy and spare, pitch-perfect visual storytelling.
Jane Schoenbrun is a nonbinary filmmaker and writer whose first narrative feature, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, was released earlier this year. Jane is the cocreator of the ongoing touring variety series The Eyeslicer, the director of the...
Nicolas Rapold is a critic and programmer. He is the host of the podcast The Last Thing I Saw, author of the book The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki, and former editor in chief of Film Comment. His work appears in...
Bill McKibben wrote the first book on climate change for a general audience, The End of Nature, in 1989. The Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, he is also the founder of the worldwide grassroots climate campaign 350.org.
Chris Darke is a writer and film critic based in London. His work has appeared in Film Comment, Sight & Sound, Trafic, and the Independent. He is also the author of Light Readings: Film Criticism and Screen Arts, a monograph...
Jim DeRogatis is the cohost of Sound Opinions, “the world’s only rock-and-roll talk show,” originating from WBEZ Chicago and distributed nationally on public radio via PRX; a full-time lecturer in the Professional Writing Program at Columbia College in Chicago; and...
Stanley Booth traveled with the World’s Greatest Rock-and-Roll Band in 1969 while writing The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones, chapter 31 of which details the complete events of Altamont. The book was republished by A Cappella in 2000. This...
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