The Criterion Collection
Megan Abbott is the award-winning author of twelve crime novels, including the New York Times best seller The Turnout. Her latest novel, the national best seller El Dorado Drive, was published in June 2025. Formerly a writer on HBO’s The...
Peter Tonguette has written on the arts for numerous publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, National Review, Sight & Sound, and Film Comment. He is currently writing a book about Peter Bogdanovich for...
Erica Wagner was born in New York and lives in London. Gravity, her collection of short stories, was published by Granta in 1997; Ariel’s Gift, a book about Ted Hughes’s “Birthday Letters,” was published by W. W. Norton in 2001;...
Lou Lumenick is the chief film critic of the New York Post. He has also written for Moving Image Source and been a guest programmer for Turner Classic Movies.
Richard Porton is one of the editors of Cineaste in New York. He is the author of Film and the Anarchist Imagination and the editor of Dekalog 3: On Film Festivals.
A. S. Hamrah’s work has appeared in a number of publications, including n+1, Bookforum, and Harper’s. A collection of his work, The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002–2018 (n+1 Books), was called “essential reading” by the Nation and “form-bending, disobedient”...
Sam Di Iorio has written about Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Jacques Rivette, François Truffaut, and Luc Moullet. He teaches French cinema and French literature in the Department of Romance Languages at Hunter College and at the Graduate Center of the...
Tony Pipolo writes extensively on film. He is the author of the award-winning Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film and is a practicing psychoanalyst in New York.
John Rockwell was a longtime arts critic and editor for the New York Times and the founding director of the Lincoln Center Festival. The author of four books (one about Lars von Trier), he is now a freelance writer and...
Farran Smith Nehme has written about film and film history for the New York Post, Barron’s, the Wall Street Journal, Film Comment, the Village Voice, and Sight and Sound as well as for her Substack, Self-Styled Siren.