Tue, Mar 10 / 7:30 pm
Admission by Donation
One of the most influential writers on global cinema over the past thirty years—a champion of such directors as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Abbas Kiarostami, Pedro Costa, and Charles Burnett, among a host of experimentalists—the renowned American film critic
Jonathan Rosenbaum will dip into his own personal collection, and present a specially curated program of rarely seen short films and clips from around the world. His numerous books include Moving Places: A Life at the Movies; Midnight Movies (with J. Hoberman); Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism; Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Films You See.
Jonathan Rosenbaum was the head film critic for the Chicago Reader from 1987 until 2008, and has written for many publications, including Art Forum, Film Comment, and Cahiers du cinéma. French director Jean-Luc Godard has said: “He’s one of the best; we don’t have writers like him in France today.” Rosenbaum’s column “Global Discoveries on DVD” appears regularly in Cinemascope and in recent years he has taught at Béla Tarr’s film academy in Sarajevo.
