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Awards

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 13, 2009

  "Let the Mild Rumpus Start!"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 29, 2009

  "Robert Frank's Real America"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 4, 2009

  "Why Hard Times Won't Mean Good Times"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 12, 2008

  "Deep Freeze"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 18, 2008

  "What We Learned About the Election in this Summer's Movies"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published January 24, 2008

  "Kill One for the Gipper"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 16, 2006

  "The New Disaster Movie"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 14, 2006

  "Anarchy in the UK"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 5, 2006

  "Mel Gibson is Responsible for All the Wars in the World"

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2012 Stories by J. Hoberman

• American History, from the Mind of Ken Jacobs, in Seeking the Monkey King

  published January 4, 2012

  One of last year's best films, Ken Jacobs's Seeking the Monkey King is showing Saturday at Anthology as part of a program presented in... More >>

• A Search for a Corpse is So Much More in Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

  published January 4, 2012

  A few days into 2012, and we already have a favorite for the New Year's best movie: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Harvey Weinstein is Back -- NY Film Critics

  published Nov 30, 2011

  ​The big news to emerge from yesterday's New York Film Critics Circle voting--held early this year to scoop the other year end awards--is, of course, the second coming of homeboy Harvey Weinstei More >>

• George Kuchar 1942-2011

  published Sep 08, 2011

  ​George Kuchar, the Bronx-raised filmmaker who began his career, along with twin brother Mike, at age 12, died this week in San Francisco after a long battle with prostate cancer. Beginning wit More >>

• Raul Ruiz, 1941-2011

  published Aug 19, 2011

  ​One of the most innovative and prolific narrative filmmakers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Chilean-born, Paris-based director Raul Ruiz died today in Paris of a pulmonary infection More >>

• Robert Breer, 1926-2011

  published Aug 18, 2011

  ​A pioneering kinetic sculptor, a key member of the great generation of American avant-garde filmmakers, and one of the most influential animators in cinema history, Robert Breer died last Thurs More >>

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  Robert Sklar, 1936-2011

  published Jul 05, 2011

  ​The New York film community was shocked and saddened this past weekend upon receiving news that Robert Sklar, longtime pillar of NYU's Department of Cinema Studies, had died of injuries suffere More >>

• Donald Krim, Cinephile, Film Distributor (1945-2011)

  published May 25, 2011

  ​A discerning film distributor and a passionate cinephile, Kino International president Donald Krim died of cancer last Friday at the age 65. The news reached many who knew him during the award More >>

• Suze Rotolo, 1943-2011

  published Feb 27, 2011

  ​The Village lost a life-long partisan and a true voice last Friday, with the passing of Susan Rotolo after a long illness, at home in her Noho loft and the arms of her husband of 40 years, Enzo More >>

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  J. Hoberman Responds to Armond White

  published Jan 19, 2011

  ​One would have to be as nutty as outgoing New York Film Critics Circle chairman and New York Press film critic Armond White to attempt to refute his lies, exaggerations, fantasies, smears and f More >>

• Jafar Panahi, Iranian Director, Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison, Banned from Making Movies

  published Dec 20, 2010

  ​Ten months after his arrest last March, Jafar Panahi -- the most internationally acclaimed of Iranian directors as well as one of the most political in both his movies and his outspoken support More >>

• Claude Chabrol, 1930-2010

  published Sep 13, 2010

  ​One of the key members of French new wave, Claude Chabrol died this weekend at age 80, having made nearly as many movies -- almost all of them thrillers -- as years he lived. Like his colleag More >>

• The Venice Film Festival -- That's a Wrap

  published Sep 13, 2010

  ​Back from the Lido, I learned that Somewhere, Sofia Coppola's slight, stringent, not-quite sentimental tale of a movie star on the edge of a nervous breakdown and the 11-year-old daughter that More >>

• Venice Midpoint: Women Rule

  published Sep 07, 2010

  ​Midway through the Venice film festival, the competition is notable for a pair of features by American women: Sofia Coppola's Somewhere and Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff -- both minimalist, o More >>

• Wish You Were Here: Venice Film Festival Opens With "Mickey Rourke in a Tutu"

  published Sep 03, 2010

  ​The 67th Venice Film Festival, where I'm currently on jury duty (although not on the jury headed by Quentin Tarantino) opened majorly pop with Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky's warmly received and More >>

• New York Times Continues to Backpedal on 'Grimmest' NY Film Festival

  published Aug 09, 2010

  ​A few months back, we noted an interesting discrepancy in the New York Times coverage of the last New York Film Festival. While critics A.O. Scott and Stephen Holden were unusually harsh in th More >>

• 'Psycho' Is 50: Remembering Its Impact, and the Andrew Sarris Review

  published Jun 15, 2010

  ​It was 50 years ago this week, Alfred Hitchcock taught the world to shriek. Sunday morning June 16, 1960, Psycho opened at two midtown Manhattan theaters, with crowds already lined up on Broadw More >>

• Dennis Hopper, Lone Horseman of the Apocalypse

  published May 30, 2010

  ​As an actor-director-lone horseman of the apocalypse, Dennis Hopper's career suggests some druggy Dylan ballad with Marcel Duchamp and James Dean riding their motorcycles up Boot Hill to steal More >>

• Callie Angell (1948-2010)

  published May 10, 2010

  ​The film world last week lost a great historian, an irreplaceable resource, and, for many, a cherished colleague with the sudden, untimely passing of Callie Angell. A woman of considerable inte More >>

• 'Digital Playground' in Madison Square Park Going Soon -- Don't Miss It, Burger Lover!

  published May 04, 2010

  ​New York is a city of ephemeral monuments. There's only until next Friday, May 14, to see the four-channel "digital playground" that avant-garde filmmaker Ernie Gehr has fabricated in Madison S More >>

• Werner Schroeter (1945-2010)

  published Apr 23, 2010

  ​Avant-garde filmmaker Werner Schroeter died April 12 in Kassel, Germany -- although his death, of complications following an operation for cancer, was only reported here yesterday in Dave Kehr' More >>

• Times Critics to the NY Film Fest: Stop Picking Such Good Movies. It's Depressing!

  published Apr 15, 2010

  ​As film journalists gird for next week's Tribeca Film Festival, it's useful to recall the invective recently inspired by the city's other major film fest. The 2009 New York Film Festival, prese More >>

• Jafar Panahi, Director of 'The Circle,' Held in Iran

  published Apr 06, 2010

  ​Received yesterday from David Sterritt, Chairman of the National Society of Film Critics: In early March, Jafar Panahi was arrested at his home by Iranian security forces. He has since been he More >>

• My Favorite Things

  published Apr 01, 2010

  ​Hollywood's voyage to the Third Dimension is continuing apace with announced plans to re-release newly 3-D-ized versions of 2001, Star Wars, and The Passion of the Christ, but the first 3-D mus More >>

• Film Note: 'Leaves of Grass' Pulled from April 2 Release at Last Moment

  published Mar 31, 2010

  ​Oops! Too late for us to make changes to this morning's Voice, we learned about a last-minute change in this week's film releases. Reviewed and advertised in this week's newspaper, Tim Blake More >>