The Criterion Collection
May 29, 2014 — Christopher Hobbs is a production designer whose work includes Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane (1976), Caravaggio (1986), and Edward II (1991); Terence Davies’s The Long Day Closes (1992) and The Neon Bible (1995); and Todd Haynes’s Velvet Goldmine (1998). He says that...
FYI
Jan 1, 2014 — This January 1, we present a red and black sketch to keep you guessing for the year ahead.
Murtada Elfadl is a culture writer, critic, and film curator. Born and raised in Khartoum, Sudan he currently resides in New York. His work has appeared in Variety, SEEN , and the A.V. Club, among other publications. He is a...
Grace Byron is a writer from the Midwest based in Queens, New York, whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Bookforum, Granta, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, Herculine, is out now.
Joseph Fahim is a film critic, curator, and lecturer. His writing has appeared in Sight and Sound, MUBI’s Notebook, BBC Culture, and Middle East Eye, and has been translated into eight languages. He has curated film programs in the U.S.,...
Shannon J. Effinger has been a freelance arts journalist and cultural critic for over a decade. Her work regularly appears in publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, AFAR magazine, W magazine, Pitchfork, Jazziz, and...
Daniel Kremer has provided commentary tracks and video essays for physical-media releases from over a dozen labels, including Kino Lorber, Imprint Films, Milestone, and Severin. His book Sidney J. Furie: Life and Films (2015) was the first to cover its...
Yolanda Machado is a Los Angeles–based first-generation Peruvian Mexican American entertainment writer, editor, and critic. She is a digital editor for Entertainment Weekly. Before her time at EW, she was a film critic for the Wrap, and she has also...
John Wray is a regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. His novels include Lowboy, Godsend, and The Lost Time Accidents.
Barry Michael Cooper is an award-winning journalist and screenwriter. He wrote the films New Jack City, Sugar Hill, and Above the Rim. Cooper also worked as a writer and supervising producer on Spike Lee’s Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It....