Guides are the Foundation of CineJourneys
Every Journey/Online Class is led by a Guide. Each month we will host a Journey where CineJourney co-founders Jill Blake and Aaron West are the Guides. Those are among the free Journeys that are part of each membership tier.
We will also invite Guides to the platform to lead their own Journeys and teach Online Classes. You can find each Guide’s past and present Journeys/Classes listed on their Guide Page below.
Adrian Martin
Adrian Martin is a film & general arts critic and audiovisual essayist based in Malgrat de Mar (Spain), born in Australia. He is currently a freelance writer and speaker. He is the author of ten books, including The Mad Max Movies (Currency 2003, update forthcoming), Mise en …
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Chris Yogerst
Chris Yogerst is an author, columnist, professor, and media historian who focuses on the social and cultural impact of popular culture. His research shows that popular culture often mirrors society in ways that add important context towards understanding our modern world. Yogerst has been cited as an …
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Steven Bingen
Steven Bingen is an author, archivist, historian, filmmaker and contributor to dozens of books, articles, and documentaries regarding film history. For nearly two decades, Steven worked as an archivist/staff historian at Warner Bros. Studio. While there, he was responsible for evaluating, maintaining, and preserving that legendary company’s …
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Ty Burr
A film critic and pop culture columnist for The Boston Globe for two decades, from 2002 to 2021, Ty currently reviews movies for The Washington Post and writes “Ty Burr’s Watch List” (tyburrswatchlist.com), a subscription e-mail newsletter for streaming movie and TV recommendations and cultural commentary; he …
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Imogen Sara Smith
Imogen Sara Smith is a freelance writer and film historian based in New York City. She is the author of In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City and Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy, and her work has appeared in Film Comment, Sight and Sound, Reverse …
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David Blakeslee
David hosts the Criterion Reflections podcast, a series that reviews the films of the Criterion Collection in their chronological order of release. The series began in 2009 and those essays (covering the years 1921-1967) can be found via the website link provided below. In March 2016, the …
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Derek Smith
Derek Smith is a Los Angeles-based film critic with a Masters Degree in Film Studies from Chapman University and undergrad degree from Wake Forest University. He’s a member of the Online Film Critics Society and his writing can be found primarily at Slant Magazine, with other bylines …
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Matthew Ellis
Matthew Ellis is a writer, researcher, and artist based out of Portland, Oregon. Currently, he teaches film and media studies at Portland State University, and co-hosts the weekly cinema podcast The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast. Matt also writes and performs music in A Hope For …
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Jill Blake
Jill is a writer and researcher and has written about film for various outlets including Kanopy, Netflix Film, Turner Classic Movies, and FilmStruck. She has also written essays and provided on-camera commentary for Powerhouse Films and their Indicator home video label. Jill is currently writing a book …
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CineJourneys
This is the catch-all guide for community led Journeys. We have an active community in our Discord and periodically they will collectively "guide" a journey.
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Aaron West
Aaron West was a film critic in the early 2000s writing primarily for online film publications and providing film festival coverage. Aaron then finished his degree in History and Film Studies. Since then Aaron has been a hobbyist and has been blogging and podcasting for over a …
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