Chris Fujiwara
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Chris Fujiwara is an Anglophone film critic, editor of cinema journal "Undercurrents" of the International Federation of Film Critics, contributor to publications such as Senses of Cinema. Fujiwara also wrote an early piece on nunsploitation film.
Fujiwara is the author of Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, with a foreword by Martin Scorsese.
A regular contributor to The Boston Phoenix, Fujiwara has also written for The Boston Globe, Film Comment, Cineaste, Film International, The Village Voice, Senses of Cinema, Hermenaut, and many other publications. He has written essays accompanying several Criterion Collection DVDs and has contributed to three anthologies, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (Cassell/Barron's), The Film Comedy Reader (Limelight Editions) and The Science Fiction Reader.
Fujiwara has served on juries at film festivals in Vienna, Brisbane, and elsewhere, and he has lectured widely and participated in numerous panel discussions on film around the world. He is a member of FIPRESCI (Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique), the National Society of Film Critics, and the Boston Society of Film Critics.
