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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...
Chris Darke is a writer and film critic based in London. His work has appeared in Film Comment, Sight & Sound, Trafic, and the Independent. He is also the author of Light Readings: Film Criticism and Screen Arts, a monograph...
Michael Koresky is the senior curator of film at Museum of the Moving Image; cofounder and editor of the online film magazine Reverse Shot, a publication of MoMI; the author of Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the...
Writer-director Michael Lennick’s Discovery Channel series Rocket Science explores the real history of humanity’s first steps into space though he’s very fond of most of the fictional versions too. Find out more at foolishearthling.com.
Chris Morris is music editor of the Hollywood Reporter, columnist for Los Angeles CityBeat, and host of Watusi Rodeo on Indie 103.1 in Los Angeles. He received a Grammy Award nomination for his liner notes for Rhino Records’ 2003 box...
Michael Musto is the author of the popular, long-running "La Dolce Musto" column in the Village Voice. His compilation book, also called La Dolce Musto, is due out from Carroll Graf in January 2007.
Dana Polan teaches cinema studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is the author of eight books on film and cultural studies, including a volume on Jane Campion in the British Film Institute’s World Directors series,...
Sam Rohdie is professor of cinema studies at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of Montage, Promised Lands, Fellini Lexicon, Rocco and His Brothers, The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Antonioni. This piece originally appeared in...
Kenneth Turan is film critic for the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, as well as the director of the Times Book Prizes. His latest books are Never Coming to a Theater Near You and Now in...
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...