The Criterion Collection
Cecilia Cenciarelli is in charge of the research and special projects department at the Cineteca di Bologna, where she has been working as an archivist since 2000. For several years, she has supervised the digitization, cataloguing, and research for Charles...
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...
David Forgacs is Professor of Contemporary Italian Studies at New York University. His recent publications include a history of violence in modern Italy. His other contributions for the Criterion Collection include a filmed interview on Miracle in Milan (Vittorio De...
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...
Gaetana Marrone is a professor of French and Italian at Princeton University and the author of The Gaze and the Labyrinth: The Cinema of Liliana Cavani.
Chandak Sengoopta, born and educated in Kolkata, is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. The author of many scholarly and popular essays on the cultural contexts of Satyajit Ray’s work and its reception, he was recently awarded...
Roberto Chiesi is cultural director of the Centro Studi—Archivio Pier Paolo Pasolini at the Cineteca di Bologna and a film critic for the Italian magazines Cineforum and Segnocinema. This piece originally appeared in the Criterion Collection’s 2008 DVD edition of...
Critic and author Maitland McDonagh writes and lectures on film and erotica. An editor at Riverdale Avenue Books, she founded its 120 Days Books imprint to republish vintage gay adult novels.
Irene Bignardi was the film critic for the Italian daily La repubblica for fifteen years and later the director of the Locarno Film Festival. She is now critic at large for La repubblica and the author of Memorie estorte a...
Deborah Young is a film critic and journalist living in Rome. She has written extensively about Italian cinema and is the international film editor of the Hollywood Reporter.