Jonathan Rosenbaum
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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
Credits
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014)
as Self - Film Critic
Four Nights of a Dreamer (1972)
as Extra (uncredited)
Life Itself (2014)
as Self - Filmmaker
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2006)
as Self
Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown (2016)
as Self
Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (1998)
as Self
Hotel New York (1984)
Actor
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas (2016)
Actor
A House Is Not a Home: Wright or Wrong (2020)
as Self
Constel·lació Portabella (2024)
as Self
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present (2013)
as Self
The Two-Backed Beast, or The Critic Makes the Film (1978)
as Himself