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A longtime critic for the late Village Voice, J. Hoberman is the author of books including a three-volume history of Cold War Hollywood (An Army of Phantoms, The Dream Life, and Make My Day) as well as monographs on Jack...

Danny Peary is the author of Cult Movies and has written film criticism for such publications as Focus on Film, the Velvet Light Trap, and Newsday.

Amy Taubin wrote regularly about movies for the Village Voice for fifteen years and for Artforum and Film Comment even longer. She lives and still writes a lot in New York City.

Carrie Rickey is the author of A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda (2024).

Peter Cowie has been a specialist in Swedish cinema since the 1960s and has provided commentaries for numerous films in the Criterion Collection. His biography of Ingmar Bergman will appear in late 2023.

Robin Wood is the author of numerous books and essays on cinema, including Hitchcock's Films and Hitchcock's Films Revisited. He is currently editor of the film journal Cineaction.

Mar 6, 2020 — Above photo: © Chuck Stewart Photography, LLCIn America, black musical genius has never been in short supply, though it hasn’t always been recognized or fairly compensated. Even a casual glance at the résumé of formally trained composer, producer, and arranger...

Sep 3, 2019 — The twenty-five-year-old Marco Bellocchio certainly didn’t pull any punches with his stylish, subversive debut feature. Following a young man (Lou Castel) in the provinces who sets out to do away with his own dysfunctional family, Fists in the Pocket (1965)...

Aug 30, 2019 — Abbas Kiarostami’s Koker Trilogy is a true marvel of narrative construction: the neorealist-like odyssey of Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987) gives way to the slippery intermingling of fact and fiction in And Life Goes On (1992), a road movie...

Apr 26, 2019 — In conceiving the journey of Lonesome Rhodes—the protagonist of the 1957 satire A Face in the Crowd, a southern drifter who rises to become a national TV celebrity and political power broker—director Elia Kazan and screenwriter Budd Schulberg went on...