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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1999 Stories by J. Hoberman

• Finding Their Religion

  published August 24, 1999

  In the religion of the movies, Sergio Leone is a prime candidate for beatitude. Among his miracles, the Italian director— who is getting his... More >>

• Thank Goddess

  published August 31, 1999

  The Muse is light summer fare about a middle-aged Hollywood screenwriter so desperate to brainstorm a light summer fare he hires a Greek... More >>

• Boomer Bust

  published September 21, 1999

  Talkin' 'bout that generation, September brings two richly metaphoric songs of male Boomer pathos: the midlife-crisis dark comedy American... More >>

• Stocking up at the Toronto Film Festival

  published September 28, 1999

  It's customary by now to introduce any report on the Toronto International Film Festival with ritual acknowledgment of its ever-escalating... More >>

• Use Your Illusion

  published October 5, 1999

  Good-looking stranger moves to a small town, changing lives while harboring a secret past. Mumford and Boys Don't Cry—two hits... More >>

• Young Blood

  published October 12, 1999

  A jaggedly impressionistic reverie, Steven Soderbergh's The Limey works best as a brutal yet delicate gloss on the Orpheus myth. A man... More >>

• Time of his life

  published October 19, 1999

  A 73-year-old man who needs two canes to walk, and whose dimmed vision precludes driving a car, stubbornly pilots his 1966 John Deere lawn mower... More >>

• A bunch of slugs

  published October 26, 1999

  Let us triangulate. David Fincher's Fight Club is not a brainless mosh pit. Nor is it a transgressive masterpiece. As provocations go, this... More >>

• Metaphysical therapy

  published November 2, 1999

  Directed by MTV whiz Spike Jonze from Charlie Kaufman's highly original script, Being John Malkovich is the sort of prize head-scratcher... More >>

• Crisis modes

  published November 9, 1999

  Lights, camera, agitation: Two current portraits of left-wing heroism and victimhood-the scrappy Belgian import Rosetta and Hollywood's... More >>

• Redeeming features

  published November 16, 1999

  Dogma, as you may have heard, is an armageddon caper with a cast of characters that includes a pro-choice world savior, a divine messenger... More >>

• The parent trap

  published November 23, 1999

  Long-established, if not altogether consistent, pillars of the European art film, the Spaniard Pedro Almodóvar and the Frenchman Jacques... More >>

• Head or Tales

  published November 30, 1999

  Tim Burton has yet to tackle an "adult" theme but there isn't a bankable Hollywood director with a flintier sense of aestheic integrity. More... More >>

• That's the Spirit

  published December 7, 1999

  I don't know if anyone has ever named God as a divorce-case third party, but it's a possibility the tormented male protagonists of Jane... More >>

• History Repeating

  published December 14, 1999

  There's a rush-hour sense of history to Tim Robbins's Cradle Will Rock. Historical forces and famous ghosts jostle past each other in this... More >>

• Your Show of Shows

  published December 21, 1999

  Christmas comes early--at least for this reviewer--with a pair of highly audacious, hugely enjoyable, exceptionally well-written,... More >>

• End Games

  published December 28, 1999

  This is the week of the new and improved: Man on the Moon resurrects Andy Kaufman in the form of superstar Jim Carrey, Julie Taymor turns... More >>

• The Big Picture

  published December 28, 1999

  Things to do before the millennium ends: Start an annual poll wherein 50 plus film critics salted with a few choice programmers can tell us just... More >>

• Personal Bests

  published December 28, 1999

  1 Flowers of Shanghai Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan Hou's third masterpiece of the decade—following The Puppetmaster and Goodbye... More >>

• Leaps of Faith

  published December 28, 1999

  No matter who Time sees fit to anoint Man of the Century, it's difficult not to view World War II--and specifically, the Holocaust--as the... More >>

• End Games

  published December 21, 1999

  This is the week of the new and improved: Man on the Moon resurrects Andy Kaufman in the form of superstar Jim Carrey, Julie Taymor turns... More >>

• Jews for Mr. Charlie

  published December 21, 1999

  Not a play to beat around the bush, Adam Baum and the Jew Movie opens—with a flourish of movie-credit music—on a... More >>

• Your Shows of Shows

  published December 14, 1999

  Christmas comes early—at least for this reviewer—with a pair of highly audacious, hugely enjoyable, exceptionally well-written,... More >>

• History Repeating

  published December 7, 1999

  There's a rush-hour sense of history to Tim Robbins's Cradle Will Rock. Historical forces and famous ghosts jostle past each other in this... More >>

• That's the Spirit

  published November 30, 1999

  I don't know if anyone has ever named God as a divorce-case third party, but it's a possibility the tormented male protagonists of Jane Campion's... More >>