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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2004 Stories by J. Hoberman

• The Reich Stuff

  published December 28, 2004

  The title Hitler's Hit Parade may sound flip but it's not exactly an oxymoron. For a dozen years, everyone—or almost everyone—in... More >>

• Whither underground: America's favorite gun-toting heiress

  published November 16, 2004

  The abduction of Patty Hearst was a fantastic pageant. The Symbionese Liberation Army—a gang of crazy, mixed-up, mainly privileged white kids... More >>

• Film

  published November 16, 2004

  Lou Ye's 2000 Suzhou River daringly transplanted Vertigo to Shanghai and transformed the city's canals into an urban stream of... More >>

• Two or Three Things He Knows

  published November 16, 2004

  Notre Musique is the latest, but scarcely the least, of Jean-Luc Godard's elegies for 20th-century Europe, the cinema, and himself.... More >>

• As Years Go By

  published November 9, 2004

  Days of Being Wild is the movie with which Wong Kar-wai became Wong Kar-wai—the most influential, passionate, and romantic of... More >>

• Film

  published November 2, 2004

  Blame Quentin: In 1997, a loudmouthed 28-year-old bartender named Troy Duffy sold his ultra-violent vigilante script The Boondock Saints... More >>

• The XXX Files

  published November 2, 2004

  The title of Bill Condon's previous film Gods and Monsters could work for his latest, Kinsey. For some, the zoologist turned sex... More >>

• Film

  published October 26, 2004

  Luis Buñuel was not only one of the world's great filmmakers, he had one of the great careers in movie history: Beginning as an avant-garde... More >>

• Still a Contender

  published October 26, 2004

  Re-released on the occasion of its golden anniversary, On the Waterfront is the supreme success story of '50s Hollywood—eighth on the... More >>

• Lone Star Fate: From Losing Side of Civil War to D.C. Shaker

  published October 19, 2004

  George W. Bush isn't our first Texas president or even our most Texas president. But he is certainly the most self-Texafied character to put up... More >>

• Film

  published October 12, 2004

  A codgery voice warns of "violence and bloodshed," an innocent teenage couple diffidently cuddle, a cute li'l fella explains that he's organizing... More >>

• Days of Wine and Neuroses: Bachelor Buddies Hit the Road

  published October 12, 2004

  Alternately irritable and irritating, the paunchy, balding Paul Giamatti is so spirited in his distress and so recognizably human in his... More >>

• Unstrung Heroes

  published October 12, 2004

  A would-be equal-opportunity offender, Team America: World Police sets out to skewer both hemispheres of the American brain—and mainly... More >>

• Film

  published October 5, 2004

  Straight to DVD, at least in the U.S., Brief Crossing demonstrates that Catherine Breillat is perfectly capable of directing a conventional... More >>

• Self-Referential Breillat in a Midwinter Night's Sex Comedy

  published October 5, 2004

  Here's a question for the ages (or at least for The New Yorker): Does Catherine Breillat have a sense of humor? Sex Is Comedy, which... More >>

• Gray Anatomy

  published October 5, 2004

  Anatomy of Hell has been reviled as misogynist, homophobic, sadistic (as opposed to Sadean), pretentious, embarrassing, and just plain... More >>

• Film

  published September 28, 2004

  In Macunaíma, cinema novo pioneer Joaquim Pedro de Andrade adapted a masterpiece of Brazilian modernism to reflect the simultaneous... More >>

• Labors of Love

  published September 28, 2004

  The New York Film Festival used to be defined by its poster; this year, it's the poster-rific films. The two punchiest movies in a generally... More >>

• Agitprop Filmmaker for Truth: Kerry as Warrior and Protester

  published September 21, 2004

  Are we sick of 'Nam yet? Or have we forgotten the depth of that calamity? George Butler's de facto campaign biography, detailing John Kerry's... More >>

• Festival Express

  published September 14, 2004

  A trailer for the New York Film Festival and the studios' fall prestige pix, Toronto also serves to amplify the buzz around the movies finished... More >>

• Preaching to the Perverted

  published September 14, 2004

  TORONTO—Thanks to a court ruling last spring, Ontario's once fearsome censor board seems poised to pass into history—and not a... More >>

• Film

  published September 7, 2004

  The legendary maestro of post-German-Expressionist grade-Z noir, ethnic indies, and cheap sci-fi flicks turns 100 this Friday (or maybe 104) and... More >>

• Anime Sequel Philosophizes Amid Shoot-Outs and Cyborgs

  published September 7, 2004

  As gloriously impenetrable as its title, and even more visually spectacular than its precursor, Mamoru Oshii's new anime—Ghost in the... More >>

• The Last Picture Show

  published September 7, 2004

  The poet and critic Parker Tyler once described the movie theater as the "psychoanalytic clinic of the average worker." Tsai Ming-liang's latest... More >>

• Film

  published August 31, 2004

  When Will I Be Loved is titled with an unanswerable question. Does it refer to the movie's eccentric macho-ist creator, James Toback, or... More >>