Author Mark Hurne

Mark Hurne lives in Vermont and is bit of an obsessive Criterion completest and self-studying cinephile. His current film-related projects include: •Future local film podcast with a Criterion disc review and a spotlight on an aspect of film. Our first spotlight will be the early gangster films. •Filmspotting Chicago-based film podcast Quality Assurance/Social Media contributor: @filmspotting •Burlington Film Society Programming Committee member: @BTVFilmSociety •Podcasting as a guest with other podcasters whenever I can! Why write film reviews and produce film podcasts?  Film reviews and podcasting are an excuse to further my film knowledge with a specific focus that changes from month to month. My greatest Criterion passions include the directors Andrei Tarkovsky, Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Pierre Melville, Luis Bunuel, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Ingmar Bergman, and of course The French New Wave. My introduction to The Criterion Collection many years ago was with Seven Samurai, but it clicked four years ago when I saw Jules & Jim that The Criterion Collection included many films that are the best produced films outside of the United States.