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Jonathan Rosenbaum
Readings: James Agee’s Complete Film Criticism: Reviews, Essays, and Manuscripts
By
Jonathan Rosenbaum
October 16, 2017
Be careful what you wish for: a comprehensive collection of the critic’s reviews for
Nation
and
Time
does not serve to burnish his legend
Festivals: Melbourne
By
Jonathan Rosenbaum
August 22, 2016
Cinephilia down under: the Australian festival celebrates its 65th edition in one of the cradles of online criticism
An Epic of Understanding: John Gianvito’s Wake (Subic)
By
Jonathan Rosenbaum
February 2, 2016
Damage report: on the filmmaker's steadfast cinematic scrutiny of U.S. colonialism and its legacy of destruction in the Philippines
Short and Sweet
By
Jonathan Rosenbaum
February 11, 2013
Kiarostami's experimental origins
Mark Cousins’s Excellent Adventure
By
Jonathan Rosenbaum
January 10, 2013
A friendly and innocent TV odyssey through film history
Festivals: Viennale
By
Jonathan Rosenbaum
November 16, 2012
Chris Marker lives!
Devotional Reading
By
Jonathan Rosenbaum
November 6, 2012
Two literary voyages into film analysis inspire a reflection on critical practice
Second Thoughts on Stroheim
By
Jonathan Rosenbaum
May 29, 2012
An attempt to isolate, but not dismantle, the legend
Meta Critic
By
Jonathan Rosenbaum
February 24, 2012
Novelist and film writer Gilbert Adair (1944-2011), an irreplaceable literary dandy
The Classical Modernist: Manoel de Oliveira
By
Jonathan Rosenbaum
May 27, 2011
Negotiating the singular career of Portuguese master Manoel de Oliveira on the eve of his 100th birthday
Dream Masters I: Walt Disney
By
Jonathan Rosenbaum
January 1, 1975
The Supreme Heart-crusher contains multitudes: Hugh Hefner, Leni Riefenstahl, John and Henry Ford
Journal: Cannes
By
Jonathan Rosenbaum
September 1, 1973
A dispatch from the the 1973 edition of the festival, featuring
The Mother and the Whore
and more