Email Author J. Hoberman

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 December 5, 2006

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

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

  "The New Disaster Movie"

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

  "Anarchy in the UK"

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1998 Stories by J. Hoberman

• The Wars Within

  published December 29, 1998

  The year's most enigmatic studio release, written and directed by one of the most puzzling figures in Hollywood, The Thin Red Line projects... More >>

• Ancient Evenings

  published December 22, 1998

  Very nearly as solemn as a big-studio, megamillion-dollar Broadway musical cum animated cartoon about slavery, mass murder, and the word of God... More >>

• Taking Another Stab

  published December 15, 1998

  Just to liquidate all remaining suspense: For all intents and purposes, Gus Van Sant really does "recreate" Alfred Hitchcock's... More >>

• Desperate Measures

  published December 8, 1998

  White-water time: The holidays are upon us and the studio floodgates are open. You can try panning for gold (or even silver) in the new-release... More >>

• Double Trouble

  published December 1, 1998

  The title Very Bad Things not only refers to this week's movie but also brings to mind the past few months' plethora of nasty,... More >>

• Kiss-Kiss of Death

  published November 24, 1998

  As entertainment grows ever more self-reflexive, the burden of celebritude is presented as an acute social problem— at least from the supply... More >>

• Low and Behold

  published November 17, 1998

  Yes, Virginia, there is an Edgar G. Ulmer," Andrew Sarris chuckled in The American Cinema, as though the idea of this unique director—... More >>

• Drama Queens

  published November 10, 1998

  The epigram "Histories, like ancient ruins, are the fictions of empire" may seem more appropriate to Shekhar Kapur's 16th-century period drama... More >>

• Our Towns

  published November 3, 1998

  At once generous and authoritarian, outgoing and self-absorbed, eager-to-please and ruthless, American entertainment has a natural desire to be... More >>

• Nazi Business

  published October 27, 1998

  It wasn't Schindler's List that made the Holocaust safe for show business. But it was Steven Spielberg's successful rethinking of mass... More >>

• The Haunting

  published October 20, 1998

  Dutiful as it is, Jonathan Demme's Beloved doesn't succeed so much as it abides. Nearly three hours in length, this largely faithful... More >>

• Kin Flicks

  published October 13, 1998

  It's dysfunction at the junction. Having showcased twin girls whose home is their prison (The Apple) and presented another teenager whose... More >>

• Wheels of History

  published October 6, 1998

  The most influential movement in film history consisted of about 20 movies produced between 1944 and 1952. Italian neorealism was the original new... More >>

• Northern Lights

  published September 29, 1998

  They used to call it the "Festival of Festivals," and one great thing about the 300-movie Toronto Film Festival is that you get to survey all the... More >>

• Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)

  published September 22, 1998

  Another sort of pop culture prophet, Akira Kurosawa was more than the first Japanese director—or, indeed, the first Asian director—to... More >>

• Jokers Wild

  published September 15, 1998

  Touch of Evil, the project with which—some 16 years after Citizen Kane—the 42-year-old Orson Welles tried (and failed) to... More >>

• Behind the Music

  published September 8, 1998

  As medieval Christians had the lives of the saints, so we have the showbiz biopic. What was it the poet wrote? Hold infinit-E! in the palm of your... More >>

• Slippery Creatures

  published August 25, 1998

  Your Friends & Neighbors, Neil LaBute's follow-up to last summer's cleverest horror film, In the Company of Men, is comparably... More >>