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

Rosenbaum promotes the dissemination of foreign films in the U.S. and the discussion about it. He believes that the cinema audience in the United States a wider range should be shown in films. When in 1998 by the American Film Institute (AFI ) list of the 100 best American films was first released, Rosenbaum published its own list, which contained less established and more diverse films such as films of American directors John Cassavetes and Jim Jarmusch that are not on the AFI list were. In the second AFI list then five titles were recorded by Rosenbaum's list. Jonathan Rosenbaum published in 2009 in the documentary For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism.

  • Moving Places: A Life in the Movies. In 1980.
  • Midnight Movies. In 1983. (With J. Hoberman )
  • Film. The Frontline 1983 1983.
  • Greed. In 1993.
  • Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism. In 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 Capella / 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.
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