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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2006 Stories by J. Hoberman

• Hoberman's Top 10

  published December 26, 2006

  A curious form of journalism, film reviewing is highly topical yet essentially timeless. It consists of reporting week after week on out-of-body... More >>

• V For Violence

  published December 26, 2006

  We may be living in a national Green Zone, but for all the pious post–9-11 bushwa about kinder, gentler, more civil modes of entertainment,... More >>

• Method to Her Madness

  published December 19, 2006

  Revived for a week at the IFC, Jack Garfein's Something Wild, an independent production first released during the Kennedy administration,... More >>

• Magic Touch

  published December 19, 2006

  Written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth is something alchemical. To an astonishing degree, the 42-year-old Mexican... More >>

• Cat Power

  published December 12, 2006

  Approaching 85, cine-essayist Chris Marker remains as lively, engaged, and provocative as ever—and no less fond of indirection. (His La... More >>

• You Had to Be There . . .

  published December 5, 2006

  Repeat the mantra "far fucking out" all you like but to fully appreciate the thing that is El Topo you'd have to have been there 36 years... More >>

• Nostalgia Trip

  published December 5, 2006

  The Good German, directed by Steven Soderbergh from Joseph Kanon's bestseller, is as much simulation as movie. Specifically, it's the... More >>

• Film

  published November 28, 2006

  Explore the labyrinthian depths and secret alleys of the Walter Reade's annual survey "Spanish Cinema Now" (December 8 through 26), and you'll... More >>

• Mel Gibson Is Responsible for All the Wars in the World

  published November 28, 2006

  Apocalypto has a faux Greek title and an opening quote from historian Will Durant that ruminates on the decline of imperial Rome. It may... More >>

• Czech, Please

  published November 21, 2006

  Some of the best movies you've never heard of—produced in a nation that no longer exists—screen in Brooklyn this weekend and next. BAM's... More >>

• Celebrity Smackdown

  published November 14, 2006

  The 24-year-old French actress Isild Le Besco has one of the most exotic faces in movies. With long, pale eyes supported by high cheekbones, and a... More >>

• Fountain of Shame

  published November 14, 2006

  Solemn, flashy, and flabbergasting, The Fountain—adapted by Darren Aronofsky from his own graphic novel—should really be called... More >>

• Welcome to the Jungle

  published November 7, 2006

  Fast Food Nation, directed by Richard Linklater from Eric Schlosser's 2001 bestselling exposé of the McDonald's conspiracy, is an... More >>

• Meet Cute

  published October 31, 2006

  Martín Rejtman's 1999 Silvia Prieto fashioned a deadpan farce from the aimless circulation of objects and identities around its... More >>

• Freak, Out

  published October 31, 2006

  Do artists actually see more than ordinary people? That's what my high school art teacher thought. So, apparently, does Nicole Kidman—or at... More >>

• 'Commune'

  published October 24, 2006

  A case study in documentary dialectics: In opposition to the death cult of Stanley Nelson's sensational Jonestown, we have the positive vibes of... More >>

• Fallow Traveler

  published October 24, 2006

  Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is funnier than its malapropic title—the... More >>

• Heavy Weather

  published October 17, 2006

  A terrific movie in the Antonioni tradition, Climates confirms 47-year-old Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan as one of the world's most... More >>

• Jungle Fevers

  published October 10, 2006

  Werner Herzog was barely 30 when he made his defining work. Aguirre, Wrath of God is not just a great movie but an essential one. Herzog's... More >>

• Collision Course

  published October 3, 2006

  It hardly seems possible but Terry Gilliam's courageously repellent Tideland—the movie he reportedly abandoned The Brothers... More >>

• French Confection

  published October 3, 2006

  Drop-dead hip or cluelessly clueless? Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, a candy-colored portrait of France's infamous teen queen, screening... More >>

• Celebrating the Moment and the Epoch

  published September 26, 2006

  Wafting across the decades, Hou Hsiao-hsien's Three Times presents the same romantic couple, played by Shu Qi and Chang Chen, in a trio of... More >>

• 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'

  published September 26, 2006

  Luis Buñuel's 1972 film boasts one of the best titles in movie history and a cast to match. Three divas of the post–nouvelle vague... More >>

• Festival Express

  published September 26, 2006

  Belle Toujours The world's most active 97-year-old director, Manoel de Oliveira has been making his "last film" for decades. Belle... More >>

• An Ode to Mortality

  published September 19, 2006

  If there's a tougher sell than a Romanian movie by a hitherto unknown director, it's a Romanian movie by an unknown director that takes two and... More >>