Author Donald Brackett

Donald Brackett

Donald Brackett is a film critic/curator and author based in Vancouver Canada. In addition to writing numerous articles for Critics At Large, Offscreen, Xibit, Arcade Projects, Found Footage, and Embodied Meanings, he is the author of the recent books Yoko Ono: An Artful Life, 2022, which focused on the conceptual artist’s experimental films; and Double Solitaire: The Films of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, 2024, examining their unique creative partnership during the golden age of Hollywood. He has curated several programs for Cinematheue, among them Strange Magic: The Films of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, 2013. He recently curated a Film Studies program for the Vancouver International Film Festival called Hollywood Through the Looking Glass, and he is currently curating a follow up program of Wilder’s independent films with IAL Diamond, Go Your Own Way, as well as working on a new book about Billy Wilder’s contributions to independent cinema.

Go Your Own Way: Billy Wilder and the Fine Art of Independent Cinema

Donald Brackett

November 2024

Feature Articles

“If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny, or else they’ll kill you.” – Billy Wilder Billy Wilder was an amazingly versatile cinematic artist of the highest order, and one somehow capable of making ...