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Emily Nussbaum is the Pulitzer Prize–winning television critic for the New Yorker. She is the author of I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution.

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...

Wayne Koestenbaum, a poet and cultural critic, has published sixteen books, whose subjects include opera, Jackie Onassis, Andy Warhol, hotels, humiliation, and Harpo Marx. His most recent book is My 1980s & Other Essays. He is a Distinguished Professor of...

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...

Director and writer Bertrand Tavernier (1941–2021) made films including The Clockmaker (1974), ’Round Midnight (1986), and My Journey Through French Cinema (2016). He was the author of 50 ans de cinéma américain (with Jean-Pierre Coursodon); Amis américains, entretiens avec les...

Graham Fuller is film editor of the Arts Desk and an editorial associate at Cineaste. He has written about movies for Sight and Sound, Film Comment, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times. He has also contributed essays to the...

Geoffrey Macnab writes on film for the Independent, Sight & Sound, the Guardian, and Screen International. He is the author of The Making of “Taxi Driver,” Key Moments in Cinema, Searching for Stars: Stardom and Screen Acting in British Cinema,...

Jonathan Lethem is the author of thirteen novels, including Chronic City and Brooklyn Crime Novel. His writings and commentaries on film include the monograph They Live; liner notes for releases of Robert Siodmak’s The Killers, Thom Andersen’s Red Hollywood, Orson...

Lucy Sante’s books include Low Life, Evidence, Kill All Your Darlings, The Other Paris, Maybe the People Would Be the Times, and I Heard Her Call My Name.