The Criterion Collection
Geoffrey Macnab writes on film for the Independent, Sight & Sound, the Guardian, and Screen International. He is the author of The Making of “Taxi Driver,” Key Moments in Cinema, Searching for Stars: Stardom and Screen Acting in British Cinema,...
William Paul, a professor of film and media studies at Washington University in St. Louis, is the author of Ernst Lubitsch’s American Comedy; Laughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy; and When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution...
James Quandt is a frequent contributor to Artforum and has published several articles in the New York Review of Books and essays in various anthologies, including on Andrei Tarkovsky, Jean-Luc Godard, Jia Zhangke, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Nagisa Oshima, New French Extremity,...
Paul Coates is a professor emeritus of film studies at Western University, Ontario. Previously, he taught at Georgia, McGill, and Aberdeen, and his books include The Story of the Lost Reflection (1985), The Gorgon’s Gaze (1991), Lucid Dreams: The Cinema...
John Simon has written for more than fifty years on theater, film, literature, music, and the fine arts for such publications as the Hudson Review, the New Leader, the New Criterion, the National Review, New York magazine, the New York...
David Thompson writes on film, coedited the book Scorsese on Scorsese, and directs arts documentaries, often on filmmakers, including Jean Renoir, Milos Forman, and Robert Altman.
Philip Kemp is a film critic and historian, and a regular contributor to Sight and Sound.