Eight

May 3, 2018 — Depth, beauty, curiosity—what gave luminous French star Danielle Darrieux staying power across eight decades? Critic Farran Smith Nehme looks for the answer in two films from opposite ends of her career.

Joseph Fahim is a film critic, curator, and lecturer. His writing has appeared in Sight and Sound, MUBI’s Notebook, BBC Culture, and Middle East Eye, and has been translated into eight languages. He has curated film programs in the U.S.,...

Sarah Weinman is the author of The Real Lolita, Scoundrel, and Without Consent, and the editor of Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning and Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & ’50s....

Judith Mayne is an emerita professor at Ohio State University whose areas of research interest are French cinema and feminist film studies. She is the author of eight books, including Directed by Dorothy Arzner (1994) and Framed: Lesbians, Feminists, and...

Steve Erickson is the author of Shadowbahn, Zeroville, and eight other novels that have been translated into a dozen languages. He is the chair of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, where he teaches literature and film.

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.

Dana Polan teaches cinema studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is the author of eight books on film and cultural studies, including a volume on Jane Campion in the British Film Institute’s World Directors series,...

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...

Jun 25, 2021 — 1. Visions of Eight (1973) was the brainchild of producer David L. Wolper, whose film The Hellstrom Chronicle won the Academy Award for best documentary in 1972. Other notable credits of his include Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)...

Jun 22, 2021 — This omnibus documentary captures the remarkable peculiarities of athletic striving in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.