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During one of his frequent visits to our office, the iconoclastic filmmaker shared memories of his talented friends, including Jack Nicholson, Rudy Wurlitzer, and John Cassavetes.
A voracious cinephile, the British director shared his thoughts on some of his favorite titles in the collection, noting his love for the camera movements in Grey Gardens and the terror he felt watching Things to Come as a child.
The Oscar-winning writer-director of Anora shares his father’s favorite film, pays tribute to Chantal Akerman, and looks forward to revisiting Yi Yi.
The artist, musician, and director of Heart of a Dog shouts out Guy Maddin as one of her favorite filmmakers, praises the first scene in Sunday Bloody Sunday, and can’t resist Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life.
Leo Goldsmith is an assistant professor of culture and media at the New School, a film critic, and a programming advisor for the New York Film Festival.
Adrian Jonathan Pasaribu is the chief editor and cofounder of Cinema Poetica, a collective of film critics, activists, and researchers in Indonesia. He lives in Jakarta and works as a freelance writer.
Durga Chew-Bose is a writer and editor based in Montreal. Her debut collection of essays,Too Much and Not the Mood (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), was published in 2017.
Alex Zucker’s translation of Jáchym Topol’s latest novel, The Devil’s Workshop, received an English PEN Award for Writing in Translation and will be published by Portobello Books in 2013. In 2012, he received a literature fellowship from the National Endowment...
The late Ronald Haver was a noted film historian and film curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Peter Cowie has been a specialist in Swedish cinema since the 1960s and has provided commentaries for numerous films in the Criterion Collection. His biography of Ingmar Bergman will appear in late 2023.