Onathanrosenbaum

Media’s and Scholarship’s Historical Abridgments

The Birth of a Nation (1915)Directed by D.W. GriffithShown: Walter Long (as Gus)...

IMITATION OF LIFE (1934)

Written for Il Cinema Ritrovato’s catalogue for June 2018. — J.R. Americans kno...

THE PRODUCERS

Written for Il Cinema Ritrovato’s catalogue in June 2018. — J.R.  “My movies ri...

The Sacrifice

Andrei Tarkovsky’s last film (1986, 145 min.) isn’t on the same level as his ex...

A Home Of Our Own

From the Chicago Reader (October 1, 1993). — J.R. Director Tony Bill (My Bodygu...

Critical Departures [in Tehran]

Written for the U.K. journal Underline in July 2018. — J.R. In mid-July 2018, I...

Muse Abuse [LIGHT SLEEPER]

From the Chicago Reader (September 4, 1992). In the interests of full disclosure...

Global Discoveries on DVD: Bologna’s Bounty

From the Fall 2022 Cinema Scope. There appears to be a consensus tha...

Cinephilia Down There: A Report on the 65th Melbourne I...

 Written for Film Comment‘s web site in mid-August 2016. — J.R.   Although it ...

Looking Back in Anger [STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH]

From the Chicago Reader (February 27, 2004). On February 12, 2018, Ken Jacobs s...

Review of AUTEUR THEORY AND MY SON JOHN

Written for Cineaste (Winter 2018). — J.R. Auteur Theory and My Son John   by J...

One man’s meat is another man’s Poisson (GRAVITY’S RAIN...

This is by far the most challenging book review I’ve ever had to write. I wrote ...

Women of Substance

From the Chicago Reader (August 10, 2001). — J.R. Under the Sand Rating *** A...

Crossing Kelly Reichardt’s Wilderness

Written for the Viennale in August 2020 for a late October publication called Te...

We Are What We Spend: Presence and Absence in VITALINA ...

An alternate version of my essay on the Costa film, written in May 2020 for Traf...

Orson Welles in the 21st Century

 Published in the Spanish newspaper El mundo as “El maverick impredecible” on Ma...

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