1. Jonathan Rosenbaum was born on February 27,1943 and is an American film critic and author.
21 Facts About Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Jonathan Rosenbaum has published and edited numerous books about cinema and has contributed to such notable film publications as Cahiers du cinema and Film Comment.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum grew up in Florence, Alabama, where his grandfather had owned a small chain of movie theaters.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum lived with his father Stanley and mother Mildred in the Rosenbaum House, designed by notable architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum attended The Putney School in Putney, Vermont, where his classmates included actor Wallace Shawn.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum developed a lifelong interest in jazz as a teenager.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum frequently refers to it in his film criticism.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum attended Bard College, where he played piano in an amateur jazz ensemble that included future actors Chevy Chase as a drummer and Blythe Danner as a vocalist.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum studied literature at Bard with the intention of becoming a writer.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum moved to Paris, France, in 1969, working briefly as an assistant to director Jacques Tati and appearing as an extra in Robert Bresson's Four Nights of a Dreamer.
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In 1987, Jonathan Rosenbaum was hired to succeed Dave Kehr as the film critic for The Chicago Reader; he retired from that position in 2008.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote an analysis of Jim Jarmusch's film Dead Man ; the book includes recorded interviews with Jarmusch.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum edited This Is Orson Welles, by Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, a collection of interviews and other materials relating to Welles.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum consulted on both the 1998 re-editing of Welles's Touch of Evil and the 2018 posthumous completion of Welles's The Other Side of the Wind, produced by Peter Bogdanovich and Frank Marshall.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum was a frequent contributor to the DVDBeaver website prior to the site's repurposing as a DVD producer.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum writes the "Global Discovery Column" in the film journal Cinema Scope, where he reviews international DVD releases of films that are not widely available.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum writes a column called En Movimiento for the Spanish magazine Caiman Cuadernos De Cine.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum was a visiting professor of film at Virginia Commonwealth University's art history department in Richmond, Virginia from 2010 to 2011.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum appears in the 2009 documentary For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism, where he discusses the film criticism of Manny Farber.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum starred his 100 favorite films on the list, marking both traditionally canonical films such as Greed and Citizen Kane, and harder-to-find films such as Michael Snow's La Region Centrale and Jacques Rivette's Out 1.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum has compiled "best of the year" movie lists from 1972 to 1976 and 1987 to 2022, helping to provide an overview of his critical preferences.