The Criterion Collection
Paul Thomas is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory and American Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. A contributing editor of Film Quarterly, he is currently at work on a critical biography of Jean Renoir.
A. S. Hamrah’s work has appeared in a number of publications, including n+1, Bookforum, and Harper’s. A collection of his work, The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002–2018 (n+1 Books), was called “essential reading” by the Nation and “form-bending, disobedient”...
Chandak Sengoopta, born and educated in Kolkata, is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. The author of many scholarly and popular essays on the cultural contexts of Satyajit Ray’s work and its reception, he was recently awarded...
Mark Kermode is a film critic and broadcaster who works for the BBC, the Observer, and Sight & Sound.
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...