
Jonathan Rosenbaum
On the occasion of this great loss, Jonathan Rosenbaum and I discussed some aspects of Kiarostami’s world. Jonathan, the former chief film critic at Chicago Reader, is the co-author (with Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa) of a book on Kiarostam i, available from the University of Illinois Press.
About This Site - Jonathan Rosenbaum
2023年9月11日 · Jonathan Rosenbaum was film critic for the Chicago Reader from 1987 to 2008. Born in Alabama in 1943, the son and grandson of movie exhibitors, he grew up in a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
My 2022 Sight and Sound List - Jonathan Rosenbaum
Name: Jonathan Rosenbaum Job title: film critic, teacher Country: USA. Your votes. Greed Year: 1924 Director: Erich von Stroheim; M Year: 1931 Director: Fritz Lang; Spring in a Small Town Year: 1948 Director: Fei Mu Comment: The most neglected great film on my list, at least in the Western world. Ordet Year: 1955 Director: Carl Dreyer; A Man ...
Publications - Jonathan Rosenbaum
This is another unauthorized publication of mine in Farsi — a collection including 13 of my articles from the Chicago Reader; I’m told that its title translates as Jonathan Rosenbaum’s Reviews, and the last I heard, it could be bought in Tehran for roughly the equivalent of a dollar.
2025 - Jonathan Rosenbaum
Orphans. Alan J. Pakula’s spellbinding 1987 film of Lyle Kessler’s play, adapted by the playwright himself from a Steppenwolf production, focuses on three powerhouse performancesby Matthew Modine and Kevin Anderson as orphaned brothers holed up in a decrepit house in Newark, and Albert Finney as a big-time gangster who enters their world and transforms it.
1,000 Favorites (A Personal Canon), part one | Jonathan Rosenbaum
This is the first part of the Appendix of my 2004 collection Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons.. — J.R. 1000 Favorites (A Personal Canon), Part 1. The criteria I’ve used for inclusion on this list are pleasure and edification; I haven’t factored in any sense of historical importance that might exist independently of these factors.
Diminuendo and Crescendo in Film Criticism (interview by Ehsan ...
The needs-no-introduction film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum turns seventy this month, but that does not mean that he has grown out of touch. His latest book, Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia (University Of Chicago Press, 2010), displays Rosenbaum’s engagement with digital-era realities, and manages something few if any critics of his generation ...
Stalker | Jonathan Rosenbaum
Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 masterpiece, like his earlier Solaris, is a free and allegorical adaptation of an SF novel, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic.
Featured Texts | Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Hardly Working | Jonathan Rosenbaum
After a decade’s absence, Jerry Lewis made his comeback in 1981 with this movie, which represents a throwback in some respects to the conditions of his first film as a director, The Bellboy: a low budget, discontinuous gags, and Florida locations (in this case suburban).