Onathanrosenbaum

Love and Politics [THE RUSSIA HOUSE & HAVANA]

From the Chicago Reader (December 14, 1990). Note: Twilight Time has recently re...

Circle of Pain: The Cinema of Nicholas Ray

From the Autumn 1973 issue of Sight and Sound. — J.R. Surfacing in Cannes in th...

*CORPUS CALLOSUM

A short review commissioned by Film Comment (July-August 2002), which left out t...

The Screed We Need [FAHRENHEIT 9/11]

From the Chicago Reader (June 24, 2004). — J.R. Fahrenheit 9/11 *** (A must-see)...

The Woman Who Isn’t There [WAKING THE DEAD]

From the Chicago Reader (March 24, 2000). — J.R. Waking the Dead Rating ** Wort...

My Favorite Films/Texts/Things (1976) (further upgraded...

From the November-December 1976 Film Comment and exhumed now mainly as a telling...

Saying It With Stars

From the Chicago Reader (May 13, 2005). — J.R. Crash *** (A must see) Direc...

Lost in THE FOG OF WAR

From the Chicago Reader (January 23, 2004). Although I don’t want to begrudge Er...

LA SAGA: CINÉASTES, DE NOTRE TEMPS: UNE HISTOIRE DU CIN...

Some of the most successful and fruitful ongoing enterprises related to film h...

True Romances [HAV PLENTY & MR. JEALOUSY]

From the Chicago Reader (June 19, 1998). — J.R. Hav Plenty Rating *** A must see...

Hook and Crook [HOOK & BUGSY]

From the Chicago Reader (December 20, 1991). — J.R. HOOK ** (Worth seeing) Di...

Too Horrible [LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN]

From the Chicago Reader (May 11, 1990). — J.R. LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN * (Has re...

True Grit [ROSETTA]

From the Chicago Reader (January 14, 2000); also reprinted in my collection Esse...

The Silence Before Bach

Though Pere Portabella is a major talent in experimental narrative film, worki...

Good as Gold?

From the Soho News (September 17, 1980). The owners of this newspaper at the tim...

A Place In The Sun

George Stevens’s overblown, Oscar-laden adaption of An American Tragedy (1951, ...

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