Peter Cowie was born on 24 December 1939 and is a British film historian and author of more than thirty books on film.
10 Facts About Peter Cowie
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Peter Cowie has contributed to many of the world's leading newspapers and periodicals, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Sunday Times, the Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, Expressen, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Sight and Sound, Variety and Film Comment.
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Peter Cowie launched annual publications on sport, classical music, television and the Nordic area.
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Peter Cowie has been on various juries, at the Cannes, Venice, Berlin, and Tampere festivals.
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Peter Cowie is interested in the work of American film directors as different as Francis Ford Coppola, Orson Welles, and John Ford.
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Peter Cowie has provided more than a dozen voice-over audio commentaries for DVD versions of classic films which form part of The Criterion Collection.
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Peter Cowie is a sometime visiting professor in film studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Peter Cowie has moderated panels and symposia at the Venice International Film Festival, and on behalf of the European Film Academy.
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In 2008, Peter Cowie co-edited Projections: The European Film Academy, and was a contributing editor to the Taschen volume, The Ingmar Bergman Archives.
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Peter Cowie has provided audio commentaries for the following films in The Criterion Collection:.