Jonathan Rosenbaum
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
- Moving Places: A Life in the Movies. 1980.
- Midnight Movies. 1983. (with J. Hoberman )
- Movie: The Front Line 1983. 1983.
- Greed. 1993.
- Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism. 1995.
- Movies as Politics. 1997, ISBN 0-520-20615-0 .
- Dead Man. 2000, ISBN 0-85170-806-4 .
- Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Films You See. A Cappella / Chicago Review Press 2000.
- Abbas Kiarostami (Contemporary Film Directors). 2003. (with Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa )
- Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons. 2004, ISBN 0-8018-7840-3 .
- Discovering Orson Welles. 2007, ISBN 978-0-520-25123-6 .
- Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition. 2010, ISBN 978-0-226-72664-9 .
Web links
- Jonathan Rosenbaum in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- JonathanRosenbaum.net Official Blog
- Chicago Reader: Jonathan Rosenbaum bibliography
- Jonathan Rosenbaum's 1000 Important Films
- Interview with Rosenbaum of Orson Welles
- CineScene interview
- 2007 video interview - Unseen Orson Welles - a conversation with Jonathan Rosenbaum
- a conversation with Jonathan Rosenbaum
Individual evidence
- ↑ Playing Oneself. In: The Soho News. October 27, 1981. Published on: jonathanrosenbaum.net.
- ^ They Drive by Night: The Criticism of Manny Farber. jonathanrosenbaum.net, June 24, 1993.
- ^ Something to Talk About. Chicago Reader , January 3, 2008.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Rosenbaum, Jonathan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film critic |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1943 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence , Alabama |