About

The Film Desk was founded by Jacob Perlin in 2008. The company’s mission is to introduce, or re-introduce, international classics to audiences, primarily in new 35mm prints. The Film Desk’s first theatrical release was the North American premiere of Philippe Garrel’s I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar. This was followed by the 2008 theatrical re-release of Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux, which had been long unavailable theatrically. Other films which received their official US theatrical premieres by The Film Desk include Michelangelo Antonioni’s Le Amiche and Alain Cavalier’s Le Combat dans L’île. The Film Desk has also released Resnais' Je t'aime, je t'aime, Pialat's We Will Not Grow Old Together, Sontag's Promised Lands and Denis' Trouble Every Day.

Film Desk Books has published Francois Truffaut: From the New Yorker, 1960-1976 by Lillian Ross, the interview collections Pasolini in New York and Duras/Godard Dialogues, The World of Jia Zhangke by Jean-Michel Frodon, a new edition of Film as a Subversive Art by Amos Vogel, the forthcoming new translation of Beauty and the Beast Diary by Jean Cocteau and new edition of Facing Blackness by Ashley Clark.

Jacob Perlin was Associate Curator at BAMcinématek through 2010, Programmer-at-Large for Film at Lincoln Center, and the founding Artistic Director and Director of Programming of Metrograph, and is currently the Creative Director of Cinema Conservancy.

Andrew Adair is currently Assistant Manager at The Film Desk.