Jonathan Rosenbaum on "Crash" and How He Rates Movies
Today, Jonathan Rosenbaum zeroes in on what drove me crazy about Crash. (Warning: Spoilers!!) Following the template of films such as Short Cuts and Magnolia, Crash tells several independent stories...
View ArticleSpecials: Lizz Wright! Rosenbaum on Last Days
Today’s specials: I’ve just discovered an album that’s definitely going to be on my year-end favorites list. Lizz Wright’s Dreaming Wide Awake is a revelation (at least to me, I didn’t hear her...
View ArticleSpecials: Dead Can Dance. B&C on Grimm Brothers and Donnie Darko. Dead Can...
Today’s specials: Peter T. Chattaway talks with writer/director Scott Derrickson about The Exorcism of Emily Rose. My own interview will be published at SPU’s Response soon. Favorite line from a film...
View ArticleSpecials: Rosenbaum on "Three Burials." Walter on "Crash." And the sequel...
Monday specials: “A QUIRKY COWBOY MASTERPIECE” Jonathan Rosenbaum raves about Tommy Lee Jones’ directorial debut: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. There are elements in The Three Burials of...
View ArticleRosenbaum Reviews "Three Times"
Sure to be one of the year’s best, Three Times is the latest from Hou Hsiao-hsien, whose film Cafe Lumiere is one of the best I’ve seen in the past few years. Here’s a review by Jonathan Rosenbaum.
View ArticleRosenbaum on "World Trade Center"
At The Chicago Reader, Jonathan Rosenbaum weighs in on World Trade Center: “THE HOLOCAUST IS ABOUT six million people who get killed,” Stanley Kubrick reportedly said to screenwriter Frederic Raphael...
View ArticleSpecials: Lynch, Chaucer, and Branagh
It’s a bright sunny day in Seattle, and it’ll be a bright sunny evening in the theater, as I head out to feast my eyes on Danny Boyle’s Sunshine for the first time. I’ve heard all kinds of things —...
View ArticleMore 2007 Lists Worth Noting
My Netflix queue just went into cardiac arrest as I read about all kinds of new movies on the 2007-Best lists from Doug Cummings and Robert Koehler. What would I do without tour guides like them? Nate...
View ArticleCharlton Heston dead at 84
“Charlton Heston might be said to achieve his apotheosis as Moses … unless one decides that it’s Moses who’s achieving his apotheosis as Heston.” - Jonathan Rosenbaum Here’s the MSNBC story. LOS...
View ArticleFor the Love of Movies That Never Played at the Mall…
In my experience of discussing movies online, few people have challenged me to dig deeper and look closer at movies than Ken Morefield. That’s why I’m enthusiastic about having his as a “guest...
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