Jonathan Rosenbaum: Going but not gone, baby
March 5th, 2008 by David Lee Simmons in Film, Media, Pop Culture, PrintOne of our new sister papers, Chicago Reader, today announced what most folks in the alt-weekly world already knew: Longtime film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum is officially retiring from the paper after 20 years. Rosenbaum is a certified giant in the world of film criticism even if mainstream readers are more familiar with his (overrated) Chicago counterpart, Roger Ebert. (Why Ebert won a Pulitzer Prize remains a mystery to me.) It should be noted that the alt-weekly world has sent its share of kick-ass film critics to the daily-newspaper world (the New York Times‘ excellent Manohla Dargis worked at the Village Voice and LA Weekly before jumping to the Los Angeles Times).
Rosenbaum, like J. Hoberman, has remained in the alt-weekly world, and has written several critically acclaimed books on film including 2000’s Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Movies We Can See. He won the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies’ award for arts criticism in 1997 and 2000.
According to the Reader, Rosenbaum will continue to write for the paper and its On Film blog, while the two will develop his own website. Check out this link, which includes Rosenbaum discussing his retirement.
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