The Criterion Collection
Paul Ryan (1952–2022) was a writer and singer whose books include Never Apologise: The Collected Writings of Lindsay Anderson.
Sam Wasson is the best-selling author of many books on film, including Hollywood: The Oral History, cowritten with Jeanine Basinger and published in November 2022.
Cyril Neyrat has served on the editorial board of Cahiers du cinéma and as editor in chief of the film journal Vertigo. His film criticism has been published internationally in periodicals, in catalogs, in collected volumes, and on the website...
Nick Roddick (1945–2019), a former editor at Screen International, taught film and theater at universities in the UK, Ireland, and the U.S. before becoming a journalist in the early 1980s. He contributed regularly to the London Evening Standard and Sight...
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...