Max Alvarez is a film historian and public speaker on world cinema. He has developed presentation partnerships with such organizations as the Smithsonian Institution and is the former film programmer for National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. His essay on Thornton Wilder's "Shadow of a Doubt" screenplay appears in the book "Thornton Wilder: New Perspectives" from Northwestern University Press. He has also written for "Film History: An International Journal" and "Chicago Tribune". The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley have both sh...