Jonathan Rosenbaum

From 1987 until early 2008, Jonathan Rosenbaum was the principal film critic at the Chicago Reader. His books include Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephila; The Unquiet American; Discovering Orson Welles; Essential Cinema; Movie Wars; Abbas Kiarostami (with Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa); Movie Mutations (coedited with Adrian Martin); Dead Man; Movies as Politics; Greed; Film: The Front Line 1983; Midnight Movies (with J. Hoberman); Placing Movies; and Moving Places. He also translated and edited Andre Bazin’s Orson Welles: A Critical View and edited Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich’s This is Orson Welles.