Biography: Phil Hall is a contributing editor for Film Threat and the author of the books "The Encyclopedia of Underground Movies," "Independent Film Distribution" and "The History of Independent Cinema." His film journalism has appeared in the New York Times, New York Daily News, Wired Magazine, HotWired.com, American Movie Classics Magazine, Video Librarian, Tower Records Pulse! Magazine and the Organica Quarterly.

Favorites: Favorite films: "Rashomon," "Open City," "Casablanca," "Fantasia," "Gone with the Wind," "Hiroshima, Mon Amour," "The Producers," "Yellow Submarine," "The Third Man," "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World."