The Criterion Collection
Originally from Mexico City, Carlos Aguilar is a Los Angeles–based film critic and journalist. Aguilar’s work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Variety, and IndieWire, among others. He is a member of...
Bruce Wagner is a screenwriter and novelist. At the Cannes Film Festival, Julianne Moore won the Best Actress award for her portrayal of Havana Segrand in Maps to the Stars (2014), written by Wagner and directed by David Cronenberg.
Samm Deighan is a film historian and programmer, the author of The Legacy of World War II in European Arthouse Cinema, and the editor of Revolution in 35 mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the...
Guy Lodge is the UK film critic for Variety, a weekly home-entertainment columnist for the Observer, and coeditor of Film of the Week. Born and raised in South Africa, he is now based in London.
Pauline Chen is the author of the novels The Red Chamber and Peiling and the Chicken-Fried Christmas. She has taught Chinese literature, language, and film at Oberlin College and the University of Minnesota.
Danz CM, formerly known as Computer Magic, is a musician, producer, and composer. She is the founder, curator, and editor in chief of Synth History, an annual, independently published printed magazine, limited narrative podcast series, and website dedicated to synthesizers.
McKenzie Wark is a professor of culture and media at the New School. She is the author of, among other things, Reverse Cowgirl (Semiotext(e)) and Raving (Duke University Press). Life Story, a short film she made in conversation with Jessica...
Jacqueline Avila is an associate professor of musicology at the University of Texas, Austin, specializing in film-music studies, sound studies, and the intersections of identity, tradition, and modernity in the musical cultures and new media of Mexico, Latin America, and...
Alexandra Schwartz is a staff writer at the New Yorker and a cohost of the magazine’s culture podcast Critics at Large.
Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the best-selling memoir In the Dream House and the short-story collection Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for a National Book Award. Her essays, fiction, poetry, and criticism have appeared...