Jonathan Rosenbaum

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Jonathan Rosenbaum, 2013

Jonathan Rosenbaum (born February 27, 1943 in Florence , Alabama ) is an American film critic .

life and career

Jonathan Rosenbaum grew up in Florence, Alabama, and his grandfather owned a small cinema chain. He studied at The Putney School . He then attended Bard College , where he studied literature. From 1969 to 1977 he lived in Europe. There he began working as a film and literary critic for The Village Voice , Sight & Sound and Film Comment . Rosenbaum was the chief film critic for the Chicago Reader weekly from 1987 to 2008 when he retired at the age of 65. He has published numerous books as editor and author and has contributed to well-known publications on film, including the Cahiers du cinéma and Film Comment .

Rosenbaum promotes the distribution of foreign films in the USA and the discussion about them. He believes that a wider range of films should be shown to US cinema audiences. When the American Film Institute (AFI) first published a list of the 100 best American films in 1998, Rosenbaum published its own list that contained less established and more diverse films, such as films by American directors John Cassavetes and Jim Jarmusch , which did not include were on the AFI list. Five titles from Rosenbaum's list were then included in the second AFI list. Jonathan Rosenbaum appeared in the 2009 documentary For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism .

Books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Playing Oneself. In: The Soho News. October 27, 1981. Published on: jonathanrosenbaum.net.
  2. ^ They Drive by Night: The Criticism of Manny Farber. jonathanrosenbaum.net, June 24, 1993.
  3. ^ Something to Talk About. Chicago Reader , January 3, 2008.