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Allison Anders is an award-winning film and television writer and director who got her first professional break working for her mentor, Wim Wenders, on his movie Paris, Texas (1984). Her feature debut was Border Radio (1987), cowritten and codirected with...
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...
Sheila O’Malley writes weekly film reviews for RogerEbert.com, and has also written for Liberties Journal, Film Comment, and the New York Times, among other outlets. In 2025, she wrote The Art and Making of “Frankenstein,” the official companion book to...
Glen Helfand is an independent writer, curator, and educator. He is an associate professor at California College of the Arts.
Hillary Weston is staff writer and social media director at the Criterion Collection. Her work has appeared in Film Quarterly, BOMB, Interview, and BlackBook.
John Pym, who edited sixteen annual editions of the Time Out Film Guide, is the author of a monograph on Preston Sturges’s The Palm Beach Story and two books on the Merchant Ivory partnership. He was educated in England and...
Girish Shambu teaches at Canisius College, in Buffalo, New York, and writes about film culture. He is the author of The New Cinephilia and the editor of Film Quarterly’s online column Quorum.
Lucy Bolton is a lecturer in film studies at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of Film and Female Consciousness: Irigaray, Cinema and Thinking Women.
Jana Prikryl is a senior editor at the New York Review of Books. Her essays on film and photography appear in the New York Review and The Nation, and her poems have been published in the New Yorker, the London...
Mark Danner has reported on war and politics for three decades, from Central America to Bosnia to Iraq. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and Bard College and is the author of The Massacre at El Mozote, Torture...