The Criterion Collection
Having begun her career in radio journalism in 1981, at the age of nineteen, Elvira Lindo went on to become an acclaimed novelist as well as a writer for television and film. She is a weekly contributor to El País,...
Shonni Enelow is the author of Joanna Hogg (Contemporary Film Directors series, University of Illinois Press, 2024) and Method Acting and Its Discontents (Northwestern, 2015) and the coauthor of A Discourse on Method (53rd State, 2020). Her film writing has...
Ashley Clark is the curatorial director at the Criterion Collection. Previously, he worked as director of film programming at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and he has curated film series at BFI Southbank, the Museum of Modern Art, and TIFF...
Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, producer, and acquisitions executive for Severin Films. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022),...
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.
David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. He has written on film for the New York Review of Books, the Threepenny Review, and other journals. His most recent book is Moral Imagination, a collection of essays.
Allison Anders is an award-winning film and television writer and director who got her first professional break working for her mentor, Wim Wenders, on his movie Paris, Texas (1984). Her feature debut was Border Radio (1987), cowritten and codirected with...
Alexander Stille is a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the author of several books, three of them on Italian subjects: Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism; Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the...
Sheila O’Malley writes weekly film reviews for RogerEbert.com, and has also written for Liberties Journal, Film Comment, and the New York Times, among other outlets. In 2025, she wrote The Art and Making of “Frankenstein,” the official companion book to...
Girish Shambu teaches at Canisius College, in Buffalo, New York, and writes about film culture. He is the author of The New Cinephilia and the editor of Film Quarterly’s online column Quorum.