Biography: Alissa grew up watching black-and-white movies with a lot of fedora-wearing charmers. Then she moved to New York City and started dating a filmmaker, and it was all over from there. An aficianado of the French New Wave, dark humor, and quiet, quirky drama, she loves anything made by David Fincher, Noah Baumbach, P.T. Anderson, Robert Altman, or Krzysztof Kielslowski, and thinks Stranger Than Fiction is the perfect film. Alissa is working on an M.A. in culture and media studies at New York University. She is editor-in-chief of The Curator, associate editor of Comment, and on staff at International Arts Movement, and her work regularly appears in Paste and Comment. In 2006, she married the filmmaker, and they are happy Brooklynites.