Antony Rayns (born 1948) is a British writer, commentator, film festival programmer and screenwriter.
[citation needed] He has written for the British Film Institute's magazine Sight & Sound since the 1970s, and also contributed extensively to Time Out and to Melody Maker in the late 1970s.
He has also worked as a translator for English subtitles on films from Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.
[2] He wrote the screenplay for Away with Words, a feature film directed by cinematographer Christopher Doyle, starring Asano Tadanobu.
[3] In the 1970s, he began a book on Kenji Mizoguchi, which he had not completed at the time he recorded audio commentary for the Criterion Collection DVD release of Ugetsu in 2005.