Biography: Besides being a weekly film critic and contributing editor at Film.com, Peter Brunette is Professor of English and Film Studies at George Mason University. He has written or edited six books on film, including Roberto Rossellini, the definitive study in English of this director's films (Oxford University Press, 1987; republished University of California Press, 1996); Screen/Play: Derrida and Film Theory (Princeton University Press, 1990; co-authored with David Wills); a co-edited book (with David Wills) on visual theory published by Cambridge University Press in 1994, entitled Deconstruction and the Visual Arts: Art, Media, Architecture; and a book on Francois Truffaut's film "Shoot the Piano Player" (Rutgers, 1993). Cambridge University Press published his book The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni in 1998 and, in 1999, his edited book, Martin Scorsese: Interviews, was published by the University of Mississippi Press. He is also general editor of the Mississippi interview series; some seven books have already been published in this series, and twenty more are contracted for. He is also general editor of a film book series at Indiana University Press; two titles have been published in the last two years. He is currently working on books on Luchino Visconti and Wong Kar-Wai. During the past several years he has served on panels at the Palm Springs Film Festival in California, the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, and at the Rotterdam Film Festival in Holland. He is director of the Film and Media Studies program at George Mason University and is also active in the GMU Cultural Studies program. He was recently elected to membership in the National Society of Film Critics, one of the first two Internet critics to be so named. Brunette has also written for film periodicals like Film Quarterly and Sight & Sound, and is the U.S. correspondent for the Italian journal Filmcritica. He also writes regularly for The New York Times Arts & Leisure section and The Boston Globe. He is artistic director of the Key Sunday Cinema Club, which has branches in six cities.