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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 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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2000 Stories by J. Hoberman

• Leaps of Faith

  published January 4, 2000

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

• Yanks Tank, Imports Rank

  published December 26, 2000

  It could be a national emergency or maybe a constitutional crisis: Fifty-five film critics, mainly from the alternative press, mostly from the... More >>

• Blood Sports

  published December 26, 2000

  Premised on the notion that F.W. Murnau's silent horror classic Nosferatu was actually a documentary, Shadow of the Vampire manages... More >>

• 100 Years of Solitude

  published December 19, 2000

  The stylized silhouette of doomed soubrette Lily Bart emerges from the steam cloud produced by a train just about to leave the station: From its... More >>

• Stone Cold Warriors

  published December 12, 2000

  Galloping into the holiday season with a cloud of dust and a hearty "Hi-yo, Silver," Thirteen Days evokes a thrilling yesteryear of beehive... More >>

• The First Days of Disco

  published November 28, 2000

  A Hard Day's Night, rereleased this week at Film Forum, is hardly a great film. But as the movie that first projected the Beatles as... More >>

• Cruel and Unusual

  published November 21, 2000

  "Dear reader, I have a naughty little tale to tell. . . . " So begins Quills, Philip Kaufman's earnestly overblown celebration of the... More >>

• Antichrist Superstar

  published November 14, 2000

  Two-ton box office gorilla Adam Sandler doesn't do print interviews. So we can't ask him how he felt when a pair of national weeklies and the... More >>

• Imps of the Perverse

  published November 14, 2000

  I read someplace (it might even have been last week's Village Voice) that Korean food was the cuisine du jour. If so, it's appropriate that... More >>

• Eternal Return

  published November 7, 2000

  Home to the last great popular cinema of the 20th century, Hong Kong has proved a great source of inspiration. Syncretic by nature, Hong Kong... More >>

• Le Misérable

  published November 7, 2000

  In France, per The New York Times, Michel Houellebecq is considered the first novelist since Balzac to capture contemporary "social... More >>

• Veterans of Disorder

  published October 31, 2000

  Kippur, which—with sobering timeliness—has its theatrical premiere this week, confirms Amos Gitai's earnest claim to be the most... More >>

• The Children's Hour

  published October 24, 2000

  George Washington, the first feature by 25-year-old David Gordon Green, is the year's most fascinating American indie precisely because... More >>

• Totò Recall

  published October 17, 2000

  Someday, perhaps, some bold internationalist will consecrate an alley off Hollywood Boulevard to those other superstars of world cinema—the... More >>

• A Conspiracy So Vast

  published October 10, 2000

  The Contender will be no one's idea of an October surprise, although, barring some late-breaking revelation of George Bush fratboy... More >>

• It's All Relative

  published October 3, 2000

  Edward Yang's Yi Yi, which screens tonight at the New York Film Festival and opens Friday at Film Forum, is a wonderfully engrossing... More >>

• Contact Sports

  published September 26, 2000

  Taboo, which has its premiere at the New York Film Festival this weekend, could be considered an event within the event. Nagisa Oshima is... More >>

• Trailer Flash and Female Trouble

  published September 19, 2000

  Twenty-five this year, the Toronto Film Festival has managed to integrate its various identities—Hollywood junket, Perspective Canada, Cannes... More >>

• Generational Tastes

  published September 12, 2000

  A historical marker in more ways than one, American Graffiti perfected a near Pavlovian formula for manufacturing the myth of a... More >>

• Picture This

  published September 5, 2000

  The fall fanfare has begun: Ready to rock your world, DreamWorks is positioning Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous—the... More >>

• Desperate Remedies

  published September 5, 2000

  Neither genius nor poseur, the aging enfant terrible who calls himself Leos Carax can be seen to best advantage in Pola X. This moody,... More >>

• Multiple Maniacs

  published August 15, 2000

  The much maligned "Sixties" refer less to a precise decade than to a chunk of time lasting a dozen years or so when, for a host of reasons ranging... More >>

• Men Will Be Boys

  published August 8, 2000

  A spasm of annoyance convulsed the normally placid world of film crit last week. Yes, of course, bad boy Paul Verhoeven had released a new... More >>

• Wander Land

  published July 25, 2000

  "We're heading nowhere," a disembodied voice complains as a battered jeep crawls up a winding road through harsh, scrubby terrain. So begins... More >>

• Bands of Outsiders

  published July 18, 2000

  Pop culture is often a matter of instant tradition. Take the once famous Rififi. A low-budget thriller that became an international success... More >>