The Criterion Collection
Angelica Jade Bastién is a critic for New York magazine’s Vulture site. She lives in Chicago with her boyfriend and four cats.
Scott Tobias is a freelance film and television writer from Chicago. He currently writes reviews for NPR and Variety, edits Oscilloscope Laboratories’ Musings blog, and contributes frequently to the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vulture, and other publications.
Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa is a filmmaker and film professor at Columbia College Chicago. Her book Abbas Kiarostami, cowritten with Jonathan Rosenbaum, was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2003.
Dave Kehr is a critic and curator based in New York City. His books include When Movies Mattered and Movies That Mattered, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
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...
Michael Raine teaches Japanese cinema and other courses in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and in the Program in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. He has published on various aspects of Japanese cinema...
Tom Gunning is Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. He is the author of D. W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film (University of Illinois Press, 1991) and The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and...
Fred Camper is an artist who makes digital prints, mostly photo-based, and has for many decades been a writer and lecturer on film and art. He lives in Chicago, where he teaches at Columbia College Chicago and the School of...
Barbara Scharres is the director of the Film Center at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.