all directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, the order depending, "almost entirely on which one I’ve seen most recently". Alternative Top 100 In response to the AFI list of 100 greatest American movies published in 1998, Rosenbaum published his own list, focusing on less well-established, more diverse films. It also includes works by important independent American directors (such as John Cassavetes and Jim Jarmusch) who were absent from the AFI list. A second list by the AFI incorporated five titles from Rosenbaum's list. In Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons (2004), he appended a more general list of his 1,000 favorite films from all nations; slightly more than half were American. He starred his 100 favorite films on the list, marking both traditionally canonical films such as Greed (silent -) and Citizen Kane, and harder-to-find films such as Michael Snow's La Région Centrale and Jacques Rivette's Out 1. Best films of the year Rosenbaum has compiled "best of the year" movie lists from 1972 to 1976, and from 1987 to 2022, thereby helping provide an overview of his critical preferences. His top choices were: Bibliography As authorMoving Places: A Life in the Movies (1980–1995) Midnight Movies (1983–1991) (with J. Hoberman) Film: The Front Line 1983 (1983) Greed (1993) Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism (1995) Movies as Politics (1997) Dead Man (2000) Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Films You See A Capella/Chicago Review Press (2000) Abbas Kiarostami (Contemporary Film Directors) (2003–2018) (with Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa) Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons (2004) Discovering Orson Welles (2007) The Unquiet American: Transgressive Comedies from the U.S. (2009) Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition (2010) Cinematic Encounters: Interviews and Dialogues (2018) Cinematic Encounters 2: Portraits and Polemics (2019) As editorThis is Orson Welles (1992–1998) Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia (2003) (with Adrian Martin) References External links Jonathan Rosenbaum Official Site Chicago Reader: Jonathan Rosenbaum bibliography Jonathan Rosenbaum's 1000 Essential Films Interview with Rosenbaum on Orson Welles CineScene interview Interview with: Jonathan Rosenbaum on The Oxford American 2007 video interview - Unseen Orson Welles - a Conversation With Jonathan Rosenbaum A conversation with Jonathan Rosenbaum on The Marketplace of Ideas'' 1943 births 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American expatriates in England American expatriates in France American film critics National Society of