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Jonathan Romney

Jonathan Romney is a journalist and critic based in London. He writes regularly for Sight & Sound, The Observer, The Financial Times, and Screen; he is also a contributing editor at Film Comment. His short films as writer-director are Man goes to the doctor and the doctor says… (2001); A Social Call (2002); and L’Assenza, which was programmed in Morelia in 2013. He is also co-writer of the feature History’s Future (2016), directed by Fiona Tan.

His books are: Celluloid Jukebox: Popular Music and the Movies Since the 50's (edited with Adrian Wootton, BFI, 1995); Short Orders: Film Writing (Serpents Tail, 1997); and Atom Egoyan (BFI, 2003).