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  • Features
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    • American Utopia: Socio-economic Critique and Utopia in American Honey and The Florida Project

      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      October 2019
      Issue 92
    • Intimate Terrains: Contemporary German Cinema, Migration, and the Films of Aysun Bademsoy

      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      October 2019
      Issue 92
    • Cinema Never Dies: Abbas Kiarostami’s 24 Frames and The Ontology of the Digital Image

      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      October 2019
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      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      October 2019
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      Jonathan Rosenbaum
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    • Of liberation, and of states of undress and redress both: The 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      October 2019
      Issue 92
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      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      October 2019
      Issue 92
    • 22nd Revelation Perth Film Festival

      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      October 2019
      Issue 92
    • Sharing My Journey: Women and the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival

      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      October 2019
      Issue 92
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      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      December 2009
      Festival Reports
      Issue 53
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    • This Is Not Another Reading of a Master: The Invention of Robert Bresson: the Auteur and his Market, by Colin Burnett

      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      October 2019
      Issue 92
    • From April! April! to Imitation of Life: The Films of Douglas Sirk, by Tom Ryan

      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      October 2019
      Issue 92
    • “Mesdames, mesdemoiselles, messieurs: un classique!”: Eric Rohmer’s Film Theory (1948-1953) – From ‘École Scherer’ to ‘Politique des Auteurs’ by Marco Grosoli

      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      October 2019
      Issue 92
    • Political Gestures: Cinema/Politics/Philosophy, by Nico Baumbach

      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      July 2019
      Issue 91
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    • Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema by Allan Cameron

      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      July 2010
      Book Reviews
      Issue 55
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    • Intimate Interiors: The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, 1992)

      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      October 2019
      Issue 92
    • “Judge Tenderly of Me!”: Terence Davies’ Letter to Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion (2016)

      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      October 2019
      Issue 92
    • Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard (Lynn-Maree Milburn & Richard Lowenstein, 2011)

      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      October 2019
      Issue 92
    • Hear That Lonesome Whippoorwill: Terence Davies’ The Neon Bible (1995)

      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      October 2019
      Issue 92
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      Miklós Jancsó’s The Confrontation (1969)

      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      September 2015
      Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
      Issue 76
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    • Fei Mu

      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      October 2019
      Issue 92
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      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      July 2019
      Issue 91
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      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      July 2019
      Issue 91
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      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      March 2019
      Issue 90
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      Jonathan Rosenbaum
      July 2006
      Great Directors
      Issue 40
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Author Jonathan Rosenbaum

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Jonathan Rosenbaum is the film critic for the Chicago Reader, and is the author of numerous books, most recently Movie Wars: How Hollywood And The Media Conspire To Limit What Films We Can See (A Cappella, 2001). His aim is to include all, provoke all, and encourage all to enter into the critical discourse on the state of cinema.

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A Few Underpinnings of the New Iranian Cinema

Jonathan Rosenbaum
July 2002
Feature Articles
Issue 21
Raising key social observations, Rosenbaum throws a new perspective on this national cinema.
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Ray, Nicholas

Jonathan Rosenbaum
July 2002
Great Directors
Issue 21
b. Raymond Nicholas Kienzle b. August 7, 1911, Galesville, Wisconsin, USA. d. June 16, 1979, New York City, USA. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources That Nicholas Ray's...
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Prologue – Movie Mutations, Spanish, 2002

Jonathan Rosenbaum
May 2002
Feature Articles
Issue 20 Issue 20
An introduction to the Spanish publication of the Movie Mutations letters 1997-2002.
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Reflections on September 11 and its Aftermath

Jonathan Rosenbaum
November 2001
Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium
Issue 17
Like many other Americans lately, I've been scared – but like only some Americans, I've been scared both of Middle Eastern terrorists and those whom I regard as American terrorists, almost in equal measure....
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Abbas Kiarostami: A Dialogue Between the Authors

Jonathan Rosenbaum
November 2001
Abbas Kiarostami
Issue 17
Saeed-Vafa and Rosenbaum discuss the singularity of Kiarostami and general problems of cross-cultural criticism and interpretation.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum on Serge Daney

Jonathan Rosenbaum
April 2001
Film Critics
Issue 13
In this insightful essay, Rosenbaum pays tribute to the late, great Serge Daney.
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Intense Materialism: Too Soon, Too Late

Jonathan Rosenbaum
May 2000
Retrospective: Jeune, dure et pure !
Issue 6
This essay is included in the catalogue for Jeune, dure et pure ! Une histoire du cinéma d'avant-garde et expérimental en France, sous la direction de Nicole Brenez et Christian Lebrat, Paris-Milan,...
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Is Ozu Slow?

Jonathan Rosenbaum
March 2000
Feature Articles
Issue 4
American critic Jonathan Rosenbaum examines what it means to describe a film as "slow", particularly in relation to Japanese culture and the films of Ozu.

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