Jonathan Rosenbaum
Actor
- Born
- February 27, 1943 (age 83) · Florence, Alabama, USA
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. He has published and edited numerous books about cinema and has contributed to such notable film publications as Cahiers du cinéma and Film Comment.
Regarding Rosenbaum, French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard said, "I think there is a very good film critic in the United States today, a successor of James Agee, and that is Jonathan Rosenbaum. He's one of the best; we don't have writers like him in France today. He's like André Bazin."
Known for
Life Itself
July 4, 2014
Four Nights of a Dreamer
February 2, 1972
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
June 20, 2006
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
December 12, 2014
Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown
September 2, 2016
Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream
March 22, 1998
Hotel New York
March 15, 1984
A House Is Not a Home: Wright or Wrong
January 18, 2020
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
May 29, 2016
Constel·lació Portabella
September 5, 2024
Acting12
- 2024Constel·lació Portabella as Self
- 2020A House Is Not a Home: Wright or Wrong as Self
- 2016Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown as Self
- 2016Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
- 2014Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles as Self - Film Critic
- 2014Life Itself as Self - Filmmaker
- 2013Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present as Self
- 2006Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream as Self
- 1998Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream as Self
- 1984