The Criterion Collection
William Rothman is the author of the landmark study Hitchcock–The Murderous Gaze as well as three other books on film. He is Director of the Graduate Program in Film Studies at the University of Miami.
Sandy Flitterman-Lewis is the author of To Desire Differently: Feminism and the French Cinema (1990), as well as numerous articles and anthology chapters on feminist theory, film, and cultural studies.
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).
Veteran music journalist Michael Azzerrad is the author of Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana (Doubleday, 1993) and the upcoming Just Gimme Indie Rock: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 (Little, Brown). He once caught a sunfish...
Jeanine Basinger is the Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, the founder and curator of the Wesleyan Cinema Archives, and the founding chair of the Film Studies Department at Wesleyan University. She is the author of eleven books on film, as...
A longtime critic for the late Village Voice, J. Hoberman is the author of books including a three-volume history of Cold War Hollywood (An Army of Phantoms, The Dream Life, and Make My Day) as well as monographs on Jack...
David Ehrenstein has been writing about film since 1965, for such publications as Film Culture, Film Quarterly, Film Comment, Cahiers du cinéma, and Positif. His books include The Scorsese Picture: The Art and Life of Martin Scorsese and Open Secret:...
Danny Peary is the author of Cult Movies and has written film criticism for such publications as Focus on Film, the Velvet Light Trap, and Newsday.
Mar 23, 2021 — “Pleasure,” wrote Samuel Butler in The Way of All Flesh, “is a safer guide than either right or duty.” Surely this is true when it comes to watching films. While cinema can be edifying, most of us go to the...
In Theaters
Feb 16, 2017 — Repertory PicksTomorrow, the International House Philadelphia salutes French actor-director Pierre Etaix with a double dose of his unique brand of physical comedy. The screening kicks off with As Long as You’ve Got Your Health (1966), a compendium of four hilarious...