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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2001 Stories by J. Hoberman

• Fight Songs

  published December 25, 2001

  Now that the western is no longer with us, there are three basic modes with which Hollywood represents history. The first is the Great Man biopic,... More >>

• Plastic Fantastic

  published December 18, 2001

  "Much that once was is lost" is the poignant opening phrase in Peter Jackson's long-awaited, mega-million-dollar production of Lord of the... More >>

• Look Homeward, Angel

  published December 11, 2001

  The Royal Tenenbaums may not be the movie of the year, but it is a seasonal gift to us all. Sweet and funny, doggedly oddball if bordering... More >>

• Role Players and End Games

  published December 4, 2001

  Ocean's Eleven is just about the perfect project to remake—at least from a director's point of view. It must have been a relief for... More >>

• All as It Had Been

  published December 4, 2001

  Nearly three months have passed and we're still talking about Armageddon—the day the volcano erupted, the asteroid crashed, the Martians... More >>

• Ghost Worlds

  published November 20, 2001

  Working against generic convention, The Devil's Backbone and In the Bedroom—two offbeat movies with interchangeable... More >>

• Slack Magic

  published November 13, 2001

  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is less a $120 million movie than an expensive, elaborately planned military operation. Caution is... More >>

• Celestial Events

  published November 6, 2001

  From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari through the Andy Warhol factory to the various para-cinematic performances included in the current "Shadow... More >>

• Toy Stories

  published October 30, 2001

  There's a case to be made that the two poles of fin de siècle commercial movies are dehumanized live-action cartoons and their supposed... More >>

• Meet the Depressed

  published October 23, 2001

  Donnie Darko, the first feature by 26-year-old writer-director Richard Kelly, is a wondrous, moodily self-involved piece of work that... More >>

• Sleep With Me

  published October 16, 2001

  Patrice Chéreau's Intimacy may be the latest instance of the new sexual candor of the European art cinema, but there's a sly,... More >>

• The Flesh Is Bleak

  published October 9, 2001

  There are distractions and there are immersions. Possibly the most emotionally intense 83 minutes currently available to local moviegoers,... More >>

• Points of No Return

  published October 2, 2001

  Mulholland Drive parts the veil on a totally cracked, utterly convincing world with David Lynch its brooding demiurge. A Denny's-like... More >>

• Reversals of Fortune

  published September 25, 2001

  Our own mood swings notwithstanding, the 39th edition of the New York Film Festival is a stolid, respectable, forward-thinking affair. The main... More >>

• News of the World

  published September 18, 2001

  The terror attacks on the Trades and the Pentagon blew a hole in the Toronto International Film Festival as well. Hundreds of journalists emerged... More >>

• Fake It So Real

  published September 11, 2001

  To judge from the movies, the most common fantasy in our starstruck nation must be that of vaulting out of the mass audience and onto the spotlit... More >>

• Milk of Human Kindness

  published September 4, 2001

  Balanced on a knife-edge between the exotic and the familiar, Djomeh is among the most formally accomplished of new Iranian films. Hassan... More >>

• The Kapital Gang

  published August 21, 2001

  Forget those magazine offices, law firms, schoolrooms, and coffee shops. The great unexplored milieu for a TV sitcom is the hippie commune. It's a... More >>

• Fear Eats the Soul

  published July 31, 2001

  Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (no relation to Akira) has written and directed 14 genre movies since 1983. Those I've seen have been deftly... More >>

• Hell and High Water

  published July 24, 2001

  Tsai Ming-liang, subject of a recent retro at the Walter Reade, is the most extreme stylist in the new Taiwanese cinema, and The River,... More >>

• Lost in America

  published July 17, 2001

  Keep your Lara Croft and your Shrek: For me, the summer's reigning icons are Enid, Thora Birch's geek goddess in Ghost World, and her... More >>

• Kitty Lit

  published July 17, 2001

  Like a hard-eyed cop securing a midtown crosswalk for an adorable gaggle of ducklings, James Wolcott's killer reputation precedes his first novel,... More >>

• King Leer

  published July 10, 2001

  What is the object of Larry Clark's desire? Could it be the endlessly photographed array of buff young bodies, which, as Abercrombie & Fitch know,... More >>

• Conspirators of Pleasure

  published July 3, 2001

  Some movies frisk like pups, wagging their tails and begging for approval. Baise-Moi, however, doesn't mean to lick your face so much as... More >>

• The Mommy Returns

  published June 26, 2001

  Fairy tales can come true. Spielberg the historian is in remission; Steven the regressive has returned, with a vengeance. An occasionally... More >>