Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons - Jonathan Rosenbaum - Google Books

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In his astute and deeply informed film reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum regularly provides new and brilliant insights into the cinema as art, entertainment, and commerce. Guided by a personal canon of great films, Rosenbaum sees, in the ongoing…