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Dina Iordanova directs the Institute for Global Cinema and Creative Cultures at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Her most recent books are Film Festivals and the Middle East (2014) and The Cinemas of Paris (2015).
Michael Koresky is the senior curator of film at Museum of the Moving Image; cofounder and editor of the online film magazine Reverse Shot, a publication of MoMI; the author of Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the...
Dennis Lehane is the author of many novels, including Gone, Baby, Gone (1998); Mystic River (2001); and Small Mercies (2023).
Michael Wood teaches English and comparative literature at Princeton University. He is the author of America in the Movies and a study of Luis Buñuel’s Belle de jour. His most recent book is Marcel Proust (Oxford University Press, 2023).
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...
Carrie Rickey is the author of A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda (2024).
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.
Jul 22, 2026 — The filmmaker looks back on the experiences that have shaped his creative life, including his time in art school, his work as a graphic designer and music-video director, and his early interest in documentary cinema.
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Jul 21, 2026 — New restorations of the first three features premiere this weekend, followed by a retrospective next month.
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Jul 17, 2026 — Some early reviews raise a few objections, but for the most part, Nolan is wowing critics with his grandest vision yet.