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 everevolving 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 Monroe8217s intelligence to a classic discussion on and with JeanLuc Godard, amply testify to his broad intellect and multifaceted talent Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia gathers together over fifty examples of Rosenbaum8217s 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 Rosenbaum8217s polemics concerning the digital age From the rediscovery and recirculation of classic films, to the social and aesthetic impact of technological changes, Rosenbaum doesn8217t disappoint in assembling a magisterial cast of littleknown 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 moviegoing8212one in which Hollywood will continue to feel the shockwaves of the digital age8212Jonathan Rosenbaum remainsa 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