Jonathan Rosenbaum
Deaths of Cinema: Andrew Sarris, 1928-2012
By Jonathan Rosenbaum | 06/22/2012 | Cinema Scope Online
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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By Jonathan Rosenbaum | 09/28/2011 | Columns, CS48, From Cinema Scope Magazine
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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By Jonathan Rosenbaum | 06/29/2011 | Columns, CS47, From Cinema Scope Magazine
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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By Jonathan Rosenbaum | 03/16/2011 | Cinema Scope Online, News
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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