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Jake Wilson

Jake Wilson is a freelance writer who lives in Melbourne and reviews films regularly for The Age. Formerly the Melbourne correspondent for Urban Cinefile and a co-editor of Senses of Cinema, he has contributed to a range of print and online publications, including Kill Your Darlings, RealTime, Bright Lights Film Journal, and Meanjin. Some of his film writings are archived on his personal website.

Jake Wilson reviews 'Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film culture in transition' by Jonathan Rosenbaum

December 2010–January 2011, no. 327 07 December 2010
Jake Wilson reviews 'Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film culture in transition' by Jonathan Rosenbaum
As his title suggests, Jonathan Rosenbaum tackles two subjects in his latest collection of essays, neither of them easy to define. In an era when films are mostly viewed at home, not on the big screen, cinema can no longer mean what it once did. Cinephilia, too, is an alluring but indefinite concept – love of movies, yes, but not any old love, and probably not the devotion felt by your average f ... (read more)
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