The Hindenburg

Pico Iyer is the author of fifteen books, including The Lady and the Monk, about his first year in Japan, and twinned books, Autumn Light and A Beginner’s Guide to Japan, about his thirty-first.

Ivone Margulies is the author of In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema and Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday. She is the editor of Rites of Realism: Essays on Corporeal Cinema and the coeditor of On Women’s Films:...

David Schickler is the author of the novels Kissing in Manhattan and Sweet and Vicious. He lives in Rochester, New York, with his wife and children.

Scott MacDonald is the author of the series A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers, now in five volumes, as well as seven other books about independent cinema, including, most recently, Adventures of Perception: Cinema as Exploration (2009). He teaches...

George Plimpton, the co-founder of the Paris Review, a literary quarterly, is the author of a number of books, Paper Lion and Shadow Box among them, many with a sports background.

Enno Patalas founded Filmkritik magazine in 1957. From 1972 to 1994, he served as director of the Munich Filmmuseum, where he was instrumental in the reconstruction of several classic films. His most recent books are Alfred Hitchcock and Metropolis in...

Leonard Quart is Professor Emeritus of Cinema Studies at the College of Staten Island and the CUNY Graduate Center, as well as a contributing editor of Cineaste. His books include American Film and Society Since 1945 (coauthored with Albert Auster)...

Gilberto Perez, who died in January 2015, held the Noble Foundation Chair in Art and Cultural History at Sarah Lawrence College and was the author of The Material Ghost.

Monte Hellman, a protégé of legendary producer/director Roger Corman, is best known for a pair of Jack Nicholson Westerns, as well as the cult film favorites Two-Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter, and China 9 Liberty 37. He has also worked as a...

Michael Töteberg is the author of Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2002) and has edited, in Germany, three volumes of Fassbinder’s screenplays as well as Peter Märthesheimer and Pea Fröhlich’s scripts for Fassbinder’s BRD trilogy: The Marriage of Maria...