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by Jonathan Rosenbaum. Dwight Macdonald’s latest collection of articles is a sequel of sorts to his Politics Past — political-cultural and incidental literary criticism that composes a loose chronicle of the times, taking in a span of nearly five decades.
Jonathan Rosenbaum (born February 27, 1943) is an American film critic and author. Rosenbaum was the head film critic for The Chicago Reader from 1987 to 2008, when he retired. [1] He has published and edited numerous books about cinema [2] and has contributed to such notable film publications as Cahiers du cinéma and Film Comment .
Sep 11, 2023 · 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.
From the Chicago Reader (August 4, 1989). This was my second column about Do the Right Thing; my first one is here. — J.R. It’s readily apparent by now that Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing is something of a Rorschach test as well as an ideological litmus test, and not only for the critics.
Nov 17, 2020 · Jonathan Rosenbaum. Jonathan Rosenbaum’s books include Cinematic Encounters: Interviews and Dialogues (2018) and Cinematic Encounters 2: Portraits and Polemics (2019), both of which have chapters on director Jim Jarmusch, and the BFI monograph Dead Man (2000). 20 Results.
Oct 11, 2006 · So begins film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum’s essay for the Criterion Collection edition of Orson Welles’s playful masterpiece of trickery, F for Fake. This highly autobiographical insert accomplishes two things: First, it neatly leads into a compelling anecdote about how Rosenbaum wrote Welles a letter (the maestro had an easily accessible ...
Feb 29, 2008 · This week film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, 65, retires from a 20-year stint at the Chicago Reader. In this interview, posted at The Reader's site, Rosenbaum looks back at his career (writing, editing, blogging) and ruminates on what he'd like to do next, which includes the freedom to not have to see movies he has no interest in seeing.
Feb 27, 2013 · To celebrate, Fandor’s Ignatiy Vishnevetsky and Kevin B. Lee visited Rosenbaum at his home for a conversation, and turned the results into a film entitled “Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present.”
Jan 29, 2019 · In the summer of 1972, Jonathan Rosenbaum was a writer and film critic living in Paris who had begun researching an article on Orson Welles’s original Hollywood project, an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness.
Aug 8, 2019 · Read our interview with film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum about his new book Cinematic Encounters: Portraits and Polemics focused on 24 influential directors.
