Jonathan Rosenbaum

Deaths of Cinema: Andrew Sarris, 1928-2012

The American Cinema Revisited: Rosenbaum on Sarris (From Cinema Scope #6, January 2001) By Jonathan Rosenbaum Citizen Sarris, American Film Critic: Essays in Honor of Andrew Sarris Edited by Emanuel Levy The Scarecrow Press, 2001 Ironically, my enemies were the first to alert me to the fact that I had followers. — Andrew Sarris, Confessions…
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Global Discoveries on DVD | Subjects for Further Research

By Jonathan Rosenbaum 1. IL CINEMA RITROVATO DVD AWARDS 2011 Jurors: Lorenzo Codelli, Alexander Horwath, Mark McElhatten, Paolo Mereghetti, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Peter von Bagh. BEST DVD 2010 / 2011 Segundo de Chomón 1903-1912: El Cine de La Fantasia. (Filmoteca de Catalunya [ICIC]/Cameo Media s.l.) A production by Cameo and Filmoteca Catalunya. The first edition of…
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Global Discoveries on DVD: Auteurist and Non-Auteurist Shopping Tips

By Jonathan Rosenbaum If there’s any overarching lesson I learned from teaching film history to undergraduates over the past year in Richmond, Virginia (which, logistically speaking, is what obliged me to suspend this column for half a year), it’s that they know both less and more about history and film history than I did as…
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Jonathan Rosenbaum looks at The Hunter by Rafi Pitts

We’ve just added Jonathan’s piece to the web archive for issue 46. “Underneath the Persian credits, over heavy metal music, the camera roams around inside a colour photograph, grazing over pointillist surfaces and male faces—finally pulling back to reveal the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps in 1983, getting ready to drive their motorcycles over a huge…
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