Joseph McBride The novelist Jonathan Lethem, in his Foreword to I Loved Movies, But…, calls Joseph McBride “an example to me, of discipline, versatility, and abiding with one’s obsessions against all odds.… What animates my desire to follow Joe to any lengths, on any subject he engages, whether I already agree with him (Welles! Ford!…
Gerald Peary A sharp, funny, and deeply engaging memoir, A Reluctant Film Critic traces Gerald Peary’s unlikely journey from a bookish, movie-obsessed boy in small-town America to one of the country’s most distinctive critical voices. Told in vivid, fast-moving vignettes, it’s a story of curiosity, rebellion, and discovery—of a life spent both inside and outside…
David Sterritt For more than half a century, David Sterritt has been one of America’s most distinctive and trusted critical voices, championing both the avant-garde and the mainstream with equal curiosity, rigor, and generosity. In this wide-ranging book-length conversation with cultural critic Mikita Brottman, Sterritt revisits a lifetime at the movies: from his early years…
Michael Haneke Over the course of extensive conversations with French film critics Michel Cieutat and Philippe Rouyer, Austrian director Michael Haneke reflects on his five decades of work across film, theatre and television. Avoiding interpretation and resisting moral conclusions, Haneke instead offers a precise and revealing account of his creative practice: from the structure of…
Pierre Rissient Mister Everywhere is a vivid, globe-spanning portrait of Pierre Rissient—filmmaker, producer, talent scout, and cinephile nonpareil—told in his own words. In these wide-ranging conversations with Le Monde critic Samuel Blumenfeld, Rissient reflects on a life lived entirely for cinema: from his days with the Mac-Mahon group in 1950s Paris to his rediscovery of…
Leonard Maltin and Nat Segaloff They say that everybody has two professions: whatever they do for a living, plus being a film critic. For sixty years, Leonard Maltin has happily combined both. Starting when he was 13, Maltin turned a childhood love of movies into a career as a film historian, writer, interviewer, teacher, and…
James Naremore Part memoir, part critical inquiry, Cinema Then and Now is a wide-ranging conversation with distinguished film scholar and critic James Naremore, in conversation with Craig S. Simpson. In this book-length interview, he reflects on his youth, education, and decades as a writer and teacher, before turning to questions that have shaped his career…
Jonathan Rosenbaum Jonathan Rosenbaum stands as one of the most eminent film critics in the English-speaking world. After working for Sight and Sound and Monthly Film Bulletin in London in the 1970s, he served for two decades as chief film critic for the Chicago Reader. Hailed as “one of the best” by Jean-Luc Godard, who…
Patrick McGilligan Still Film Crazy (After All These Years) is an informal sequel to Film Crazy, his earlier collection of interviews featuring some of the most famous names of the Golden Age. Spanning fifty years of reportage, these conversations date back to the 1970s, and include Ken Russell, Ralph Bakshi, Peter Weir and Oliver Stone,…
Nathan Réra Expertly steered by Nathan Réra, these conversations showcase Chazelle’s deep and wide-ranging knowledge of cinema history and his mastery of film-making technique. They guide the reader from Chazelle’s little-seen debut, the student feature film Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (featuring music by his Harvard roommate-turned regular composer, Justin Hurwitz), through his…