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...
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...
Writer, filmmaker, and broadcaster Kevin Jackson (1955–2021) was the author or editor of more than thirty books. He contributed regularly to Sight and Sound, the Guardian, and BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Review, and his documentary work included coproducing Humphrey Jennings:...
James Quandt is a frequent contributor to Artforum and has published several articles in the New York Review of Books and essays in various anthologies, including on Andrei Tarkovsky, Jean-Luc Godard, Jia Zhangke, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Nagisa Oshima, New French Extremity,...
Tim Lucas is a novelist, critic, biographer, monographer, and lyricist, as well as the former editor and copublisher of the influential Video Watchdog magazine. The only journalist granted full access to the set of Videodrome, he is now the audio...
Alan Williams is the author of Republic of Images: A History of French Filmmaking, and is a professor of French at Rutgers University.
Noah Baumbach wrote and directed the films White Noise, Marriage Story, and The Squid and the Whale.
Kent Jones is a filmmaker and writer. His films include the documentary Hitchcock/Truffaut and the fiction features Diane and Late Fame. He is the author of several books of criticism.
George Perry is the films editor for the Sunday Times, London, and the author of two books on Monty Python, among many others.
Filmmaker and theorist Laura Mulvey is the author of the groundbreaking 1975 essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." A Collection of her more recent writings has been published by the BFI as Fetishism and Curiosity (1996).