Jonathan Romney is chief film critic for the Independent on Sunday, and a regular contributor to Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Screen International and more.
He is the author of Atom Egoyan (BFI) and Short Orders, and the editor of Celluloid Jukebox: Popular Music and the Movies Since the 1950s.
He tweets @JonathanRomney.
Articles by Jonathan Romney
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Fire Will Come review: Oliver Laxe poses burning questions in the Galician hills
A man returns home to his mother’s farm after serving time for setting a local fire – but is he a pyromanic or simply a scapegoat, asks Jonathan Romney.
Friday, March 20, 2020
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Brazilian films may have had a triumphant 2019, but the assault on filmmaking by right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro is threatening the very fabric of the country’s cinema. By Jonathan Romney.
Monday, March 9, 2020
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Vitalina Varela review: Pedro Costa’s operatic poem of a widow in memory’s underworld
The Portuguese master continues his serenely singular filmmaking project, turning his mytho-poetic powers to reincarnate the experiences of the Cape Verdean widow first encountered in his previous film Horse Money, writes Jonathan Romney.
Friday, March 6, 2020
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A Paris Education review: ardent young film lovers test their dreams in black and white
Parisian students earnestly debate their theories of the cinema but struggle with life and the realities of movie production in Jean Paul Civeyrac’s bittersweet drama about youth and hope, writes Jonathan Romney.
Thursday, February 13, 2020
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Anna Karina obituary: the French New Wave in the flesh
The winking, weeping, vital co-conspirator on seven of Jean-Luc Godard’s trailblazing nouvelle vague classics, Danish-born Karina also worked with an eclectic array of other filmmakers in France and beyond, but rarely with such alchemy, writes Jonathan Romney.
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
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So Long, My Son review: this Chinese family saga counts the emotional cost of the one-child policy
Wang Xiaoshuai traces a story of love, loss and isolation across multiple generations and a tricky time structure in this eloquent film that combines intimate melodrama with social critique, writes Jonathan Romney.
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
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Missing People review: Béla Tarr shines a light for the homeless in Vienna
Presented for a limited time only as part of the Wiener Festwochen festival, Tarr’s latest work blends film, performance and visual art into an empathetic event that bridges the physical and political space between communities. Jonathan Romney shares his experience.
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
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What should have won the 2019 Cannes Palme d’Or?
It wasn’t to be the second year a female director won Cannes’s top prize, but our contributors certainly fancied it as much as Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite. Isabel Stevens introduces thoughts from ten of our contributors.
Saturday, May 25, 2019
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The Cordillera of Dreams first look: a portrait of Chile carved in rock
In this poetic documentary, filmmaker Patricio Guzmán mediates on the past and future of his home country via the mountains that close it off from the rest of the world, writes Jonathan Romney.
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
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The Lighthouse first look: Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson raise their own tempest at sea
Robert Eggers follows his New England ghost story The Witch with a superbly sulphurous maritime two-hander that channels the word and spirit of Herman Melville, says Jonathan Romney.
Sunday, May 19, 2019
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