Goodbye cinema, hello cinephilia : film culture in transition / Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Goodbye cinema, hello cinephilia -- In defense of spoilers -- Potential perils of the director's cut -- Southern movies, actual and fanciful: a personal survey -- À la recherche de Luc Moullet: 25 propositions -- Bushwhacked cinema -- What dope does to movies -- Fever dreams in Bologna -- From playtime to the world: the expansion and depletion of space within global economies -- Kim Novak as midwestern independent -- Marilyn Monroe's brains -- A free man: white hunter, black heart -- Bit actors -- Rediscovering Charlie Chaplin -- Second thoughts on Stroheim -- Sweet and sour: Lubitsch and Wilder in old Hollywood -- Ritwik Ghatak: reinventing the cinema -- Introducing Pere Portabella -- Portabella and continuity -- Neglected filmmakers: Eduardo de Gregorio and Sara Driver -- Vietnam in fragments: William Klein in 1967-68: a radical reevaluation -- Movie heaven: defending your life -- The world as a circus: Tati's parade -- The sun also sets: the films of Nagisa Oshima -- Inside the vault [on Spione] -- Family plot -- "The doddering relics of a lost cause": John Ford's The sun shines bright -- Prisoners of war: Bitter victory -- Art of darkness: Wichita -- Cinema of the future: still lives: the films of Pedro Costa -- A few eruptions in The House of Lava -- Unsatisfied men: Beau travail -- Viridiana on DVD -- Doing the California split -- Mise en scène as miracle in Dreyer's Ordet -- David Holzman's Diary/My girlfriend's wedding: historical artifacts of the past and present -- Early long-take climaxes -- Wrinkles in time: Alone. Life wastes Andy Hardy -- Martha: Fassbinder's uneasy testament -- India Matri Buhmi -- Radical humanism and the coexistence of film and poetry in The house is black -- WR, sex, and the art of radical juxtaposition -- Revisiting The godfather -- Film writing on the web: some personal reflections -- Goodbye, Susan, goodbye: Sontag and movies -- Daney in English: a letter to Trafic -- Trailer for Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma -- Moullet retrouvé (2006/2009) -- The Farber mystery -- The American cinema revisited -- Raymond Durgnat -- Surviving the Sixties -- L.A. existential.

The esteemed film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has brought global cinema to American audiences for the last four decades. His incisive writings on individual filmmakers define film culture as a diverse and ever-evolving practice, unpredictable yet subject to analyses just as diversified as his own discriminating tastes. For Rosenbaum, there is no high or low cinema, only more interesting or less interesting films, and the pieces collected here, from an appreciation of Marilyn Monroe’s intelligence to a classic discussion on and with Jean-Luc Godard, amply testify to his broad intellect and multi-faceted talent. Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia gathers together over fifty examples of Rosenbaum’s criticism from the past four decades, each of which demonstrates his passion for the way we view movies, as well as how we write about them. Charting our changing concerns with the interconnected issues that surround video, DVDs, the Internet, and new media, the writings collected here also highlight Rosenbaum’s polemics concerning the digital age. From the rediscovery and recirculation of classic films, to the social and aesthetic impact of technological changes, Rosenbaum doesn’t disappoint in assembling a magisterial cast of little-known filmmakers as well as the familiar faces and iconic names that have helped to define our era.
As we move into this new decade of moviegoing—one in which Hollywood will continue to feel the shockwaves of the digital age—Jonathan Rosenbaum remains a valuable guide. Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia is a consummate collection of his work, not simply for fans of this seminal critic, but for all those open to the wide variety of films he embraces and helps us to elucidate.