The Criterion Collection
Wayne Koestenbaum, a poet and cultural critic, has published sixteen books, whose subjects include opera, Jackie Onassis, Andy Warhol, hotels, humiliation, and Harpo Marx. His most recent book is My 1980s & Other Essays. He is a Distinguished Professor of...
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.
Andrew Horton is the Jeanne H. Smith Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Oklahoma, an award-winning screenwriter, and the author of thirty books on film, screenwriting, and cultural studies.
Kristin Ross is a professor of comparative literature at New York University. She is the author of numerous books, including Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (1995) and Communal Luxury.
David Jenkins worked on the film desk at Time Out London and is now editor of the film magazine Little White Lies. He is coeditor and author of the book What I Love About Movies and contributed chapters to the...
Charles Taylor writes about movies for the Yale Review and teaches creative writing and journalism at New York University. He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles...
Anne E. Duggan is an associate professor of French at Wayne State University, a coeditor of Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies, and the author of Queer Enchantments: Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy.
Jim Ridley (1965–2016) wrote about movies for the Nashville Scene, an alternative newsweekly in Nashville, as well as Cinema Scope, the Village Voice, and LA Weekly.
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...
Nico Baumbach is an assistant professor of film studies at Columbia University. He writes on film, philosophy, and the intersection of aesthetics and politics.