Michael Chaiken
Film curator and editor; interviewed Mailer about his films (including at Mailer's last public appearance, July 2007) and later edited collections of Mailer's film writing.
Michael Chaiken is a film curator and editor. He was one of the interviewers at Mailer’s last public appearance (the 22 July 2007 Maidstone screening at Lincoln Center; see 07.37) and conducted the film conversation “Author, Auteur” (08.5) printed in The Mailer Review.
In The Mailer Review
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Vol. 2 (2008)
- “Author, Auteur: A Conversation with Norman Mailer,” 2 (2008): 407 — 2008 bibliography · article
Michael Chaiken is a regular contributor to Film Comment magazine. He has organized touring retrospectives of the work of Luc Moullet, Peter Whitehead and Norman Mailer and is the editor of ‘Arthur Penn: Interviews’ (University Press of Mississippi, 2008) with Paul Cronin and ‘Albert Maysles: Photographs/Cinemagraphs/Documents’ (Steidl, 2007) with Steven Kasher. He lives in Brooklyn.
Vol. 3 (2009)
- “Editing Mailer: A Conversation with Jan Welt and Lana Jokel,” 3 (2009): 506 — 2009 bibliography · article
Michael Chaiken is a regular contributor to Film Comment magazine and the editor, along with Paul Cronin, of Arthur Penn: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi, 2008) and Albert Maysles: Photographs / Cinemagraphs / Documents (Steidl, 2007). He is currently assisting Criterion on a DVD boxed set of Norman Mailer’s Wild 90 (1967), Beyond the Law (1968) and Maidstone (1968–70).
Vol. 16 (2026) — forthcoming
- “Author/Auteur: An Interview with Norman Mailer,” 16.1 (2026): 165 — forthcoming
Michael Chaiken is a Brooklyn based archivist and an associate producer for the Criterion Collection. His archival work includes The Films of Norman Mailer, the Bob Dylan Archive and Isabella Rossellini.
Related pages
- Author, Auteur: A Conversation with Norman Mailer | Mailer Gets Hammered
- The Fight (Taschen edition) (16.1)