Episode 26 – Jonathan Rosenbaum - a podcast by Phi Phenonenon

Celebrated as one of Jean-Luc Godard’s favorite American film critics, Jonathan Rosenbaum has had an esteemed career as a writer of weekly film columns, books, academic analyses, and autobiography via film (an inspiration for this very podcast). On today’s episode we discuss why film culture is more connected now via the Internet than it ever was even in France in the 1970s, being an extra on a Robert Bresson film, his consulting contribution to Orson Welles’s posthumous output through his friendship with Oja Kadar, his continued belief in the importance of film lists, and his influential tenure at the Chicago Reader until leaving in 2008.

Rosenbaum still writes about film on his website, and his most recent book is Cinematic Encounters 2: Portraits and Polemics.

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