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Peter von Bagh is a Finnish film historian, author, television and radio director and producer, book publisher, and film director. From 1970 to 1985, he was curator and program director of the Finnish Film Archive. Since 1971, he has been...
Jim DeRogatis is the cohost of Sound Opinions, “the world’s only rock-and-roll talk show,” originating from WBEZ Chicago and distributed nationally on public radio via PRX; a full-time lecturer in the Professional Writing Program at Columbia College in Chicago; and...
Deborah Young is a film critic and journalist living in Rome. She has written extensively about Italian cinema and is the international film editor of the Hollywood Reporter.
Andrew Moor is a reader in film history and theory at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of Powell and Pressburger: A Cinema of Magic Spaces and coedited, with Ian Christie, The Cinema of Michael Powell: International Perspectives on...
Dennis Lehane is the author of many novels, including Gone, Baby, Gone (1998); Mystic River (2001); and Small Mercies (2023).
Patrick Macias is the author of TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion and the writer of the Paranoia Girls web comic.
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...
Joan Mellen is the author of several books about Japanese cinema, including Voices from the Japanese Cinema and The Waves at Genji’s Door as well as monographs for the BFI on Seven Samurai and In the Realm of the Senses....
Peter Brunette is Reynolds Professor of Film Studies at Wake Forest University and the author of books on Rossellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and, most recently, the Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai.
Michael Raine teaches Japanese cinema and other courses in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and in the Program in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. He has published on various aspects of Japanese cinema...