Work

The Paris-based Argentine filmmaker selects a few films that align with his interest in cinematic provocation, including unsettling works by Shohei Imamura and Pier Paolo Pasolini

Sep 13, 2004 — Fifteen years ago I received a letter from a young film director in Texas, who enclosed a tape of his first film, with the unlikely title It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books. It might as well have...

Jesse Thorn is a podcaster, comedian, and culture critic in Los Angeles. He is the host of the NPR arts and culture program Bullseye and cohost of the comedy shows Jordan, Jesse, Go! and Judge John Hodgman. In 2024, he...

Daniel Kremer has provided commentary tracks and video essays for physical-media releases from over a dozen labels, including Kino Lorber, Imprint Films, Milestone, and Severin. His book Sidney J. Furie: Life and Films (2015) was the first to cover its...

Barry Michael Cooper is an award-winning journalist and screenwriter. He wrote the films New Jack City, Sugar Hill, and Above the Rim. Cooper also worked as a writer and supervising producer on Spike Lee’s Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It....

F. Ron Miller is a freelance graphic designer who lives and works in Los Angeles.

Lydia Ogwang is a writer, programmer, and cultural worker based in Toronto and New York.

Rachel Syme is a staff writer at the New Yorker and has also written for the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, GQ, and Bookforum. She is working on an upcoming book, entitled Magpie, for Alfred A. Knopf.

Gene Seymour worked for eighteen years as a film critic and jazz reviewer for Newsday in New York. He has contributed articles on politics, culture, science fiction, and (even) baseball to such publications as the New Republic, the Baffler, the...

Aaron E. Hunt is an organizer, a film worker, and a theatrical booker for Kani Releasing.