The Criterion Collection
Filmmaker Richard Linklater originally presented this tribute at the 2000 South by Southwest in Austin, TX, as an introduction to a special screening of Two-Lane Blacktop, part of a retrospective of Hellman's work that Linklater helped coordinate. It also appeared...
Ian Buruma writes about a broad range of political and cultural subjects for major publications, most frequently the New York Review of Books. He teaches at Bard College. His books include Behind the Mask, God’s Dust, Playing the Game, The...
Joan Acocella is the dance critic of the New Yorker. Among her books are Mark Morris and Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints, a collection of essays.
Guy Maddin is a filmmaker who has made ten features, including Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1989), Brand upon the Brain! (2006), and My Winnipeg (2007), as well as many shorts. He holds the position of Distinguished Filmmaker in Residence...
Dina Iordanova directs the Institute for Global Cinema and Creative Cultures at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Her most recent books are Film Festivals and the Middle East (2014) and The Cinemas of Paris (2015).
Nick James is the former editor of Sight and Sound magazine. His book on Michael Mann’s Heat was published in 2002. He has written for many publications and is a frequent contributor to Sight and Sound and the Observer.
Audie Bock is the author of Japanese Film Directors and Mikio Naruse: A Master of the Japanese Cinema, as well as the translator of Akira Kurosawa’s memoir, Something Like an Autobiography. She has taught Japanese cinema at colleges and universities...
Bernard Eisenschitz is a film historian and translator who lives in Paris. He is the author of Nicholas Ray: An American Journey and Fritz Lang au travail. He has written, and occasionally made film essays, about Soviet and German cinema,...
Dore Ashton is an author and critic. Her books include The Delicate Thread: Teshigahara’s Life in Art; Noguchi East and West; About Rothko; A Critical Study of Philip Guston; A Fable of Modern Art; and The New York School: A...
Marsha Kinder, professor emerita of critical studies at the University of Southern California, is the author of Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain and the editor of Refiguring Spain, Luis Buñuel’s “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,”...