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		<title>Entries in 1001 MOVIES YOU MUST SEE BEFORE YOU DIE (the second dozen)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These are expanded Chicago Reader capsules written for a 2003  collection edited by Steven Jay Schneider. I contributed 72 of these in  all; here are the second dozen, in alphabetical order. &#8212; J.R.
 

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Luis Buñuel&#8217;s 1972 comic masterpiece, about three well-to-do couples who try and fail to sit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=22257</link>
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		<title>Roberto Rossellini&#8217;s Belly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Chicago Reader (June 16, 2006). &#8212; J.R.

My Dad Is 100 Years Old
*** (A must see)
Directed by Guy Maddin
Written by and starring Isabella Rossellini
In May 1948 Ingrid Bergman wrote a letter to director Roberto Rossellini: &#8220;Dear Mr. Rossellini, I have seen your films Rome, Open City and Paisan and I enjoyed them very much. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=5853</link>
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		<title>Reinventing the Present [PUMP UP THE VOLUME]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Chicago Reader (August 17, 1990). &#8212; J.R.

PUMP UP THE VOLUME
**** (Masterpiece)
Directed and written by Allan Moyle
With Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Scott Paulin, Ellen Greene, Annie Ross, Cheryl Pollak, and Andy Romano.

It&#8217;s hard to talk seriously about the 60s today, because TV and a lot of assholes have almost ruined it. When I taught [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=7413</link>
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		<title>10 Key Moments in Films (4th Batch)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are ten more of the 40-odd short pieces I wrote for Chris Fujiwara&#8217;s excellent, 800-page volume Defining Moments in Movies (London: Cassell, 2007).  &#8211; J.R.


Scene

1990 / Close Up – The motorcycle ride of Makhmalbaf  and Sabzian.
Iran. Director: Abbas Kiarostami. Cast: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Hossein Sabzian. Original title: Nema-ye Nazdi.
Why It’s Key: A convicted imposter finally meets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=21297</link>
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		<title>Strangeness on a Train [on von Trier&#8217;s ZENTROPA/EUROPA]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Chicago Reader (July 3, 1992). This marks my first encounter with Lars von Trier. &#8212; J.R.

ZENTROPA 
*** (A must-see)
Directed by Lars von Trier
Written by von Trier and Niels Vorsel
With Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Ernst-Hugo Jaregard, Erik Mork, Jorgen Reenberg, Henning Jensen, Eddie Constantine, and the voice of Max von Sydow.
Lars von [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=7206</link>
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		<title>Good Clean Trash [SCANDAL]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Chicago Reader (May 5, 1989). &#8212; J.R.


SCANDAL 
*** (A must-see)
Directed by Michael Caton-Jones
Written by Michael Thomas
With John Hurt, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Bridget Fonda, Ian McKellen, Leslie Phillips, Britt Ekland, Daniel Massey, Roland Gift, and Jeroen Krabbe.

After applauding some of the forthright aspects of High Hopes and other recent English movies in this space two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=7561</link>
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		<title>Inside the Vault [on SPIONE]</title>
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An essay commissioned by Masters of Cinema in the U.K. for their DVD of Fritz Lang&#8217;s Spione, released in 2005. This is reprinted in my recent collection, Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition (University of Chicago, 2010). &#8212; J.R.




If Fritz Lang&#8217;s Die Nibelungen (1924) anticipates the pop mythologies of everything from Fantasia to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=22542</link>
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		<title>Art Film by Numbers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Chicago Reader (April 13, 1990). &#8212; J.R.


THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE &#38; HER LOVER 
* (Has redeeming facet)
Directed and written by Peter Greenaway
With Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, and Tim Roth.

On the face of it, this movie seems to have a good many things going for it. Although he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=7449</link>
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		<title>Trial and Error (on Jim McBride)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was written for Artforum&#8217;s web site, and appeared there April 3, 2009. &#8212; J.R.



A considerable part of what’s most fascinating and enjoyable about Jim McBride’s early films is also what’s most dated and therefore forgotten about them. So it seems pertinent that McBride’s first two films, David Holzman’s Diary (1967) and My Girlfriend’s Wedding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=22058</link>
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		<title>AN ALMOST PERFECT AFFAIR (1985 review)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the July 1985 Video Times. &#8212; J.R.

An Almost Perfect Affair
(1979), C, Director: Michael Ritchie. With Keith Carradine, Monica Vitti, Raf Vallone, and Dick Anthony Williams. 93 min. PG. Paramount, $59.95. 1 1/2 stars
The seventh and possibly the slightest of Michael Ritchie&#8217;s features, An Almost Perfect Affair is a mild romantic comedy that qualifies as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=22491</link>
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		<title>Tales of Ordinary Madness (on Yasuzo Masumura)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the May 1, 1998 issue of the Chicago Reader. This marks the very beginning, the first baby steps, of my fascinating with and research into the films of Yasuzo Masumura &#8212; an extended project that eventually culminated in a lengthy essay and a dialogue with Japanese critic Shigehiko Hasumi that&#8217;s included in a book [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=6560</link>
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		<title>The Pluck of BARRY LYNDON</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the March-April 1976 Film Comment. I&#8217;m somewhat irritated today by the hectoring tone of this, but I tend to think most of my arguments are sound &#8212; apart from my far-too-facile insistence that Barry Lyndon is a failure, which I would now dispute,&#8211; J.R.

So BARRY LYNDON is a failure. So what? How many &#8220;successes&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=22543</link>
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		<title>Recommended Reading: THE CROSS OF REDEMPTION</title>
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THE CROSS OF REDEMPTION: UNCOLLECTED WRITINGS by James Baldwin, edited and with an introduction by Randall Kenan, New York: Pant6heon Books, 2010, 307 pp.
I&#8217;ve only barely started to familiarize myself with this collection, but it&#8217;s already become apparent that this is far cry from what&#8217;s commonly known as &#8220;scraping the bottom of the barrel&#8221;. Indeed, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=22564</link>
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		<title>The Constant Compromise (GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK &#038; CAPOTE)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the October 21, 2005 Chicago Reader. &#8212; J.R.


Good Night, and Good Luck
** (Worth seeing)
Directed by George Clooney
Written by Clooney and Grant Heslov
With David Straithairn, Clooney, Robert Downey Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Frank Langella, Ray Wise, Heslov, Jeff Daniels, and Dianne Reeves
 Capote
*** (A must see)
Directed by Bennett Miller
Written by Dan Futterman
With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=5907</link>
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		<title>High and Low: Eisenstein&#8217;s IVAN THE TERRIBLE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Written for Criterion&#8217;s Current (web site), April 21, 2009. &#8212; J.R.

I recently had occasion to show Ivan the Terrible in a course on forties world cinema I’m teaching at Chicago’s School of the Art Institute, and found it more mind-boggling than ever. This has always been the Eisenstein feature that’s given me the most pleasure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=21914</link>
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