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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2007 Stories by J. Hoberman

• J. Hoberman's Top 10 Films of 2007

  published December 25, 2007

  It was a good year—a very good American year, at least as far as movies go. I don't think I've ever compiled a list with as few as three... More >>

• The 2007 Village Voice/LA Weekly Film Poll: There Will Be Consensus

  published December 25, 2007

  Hey, we're back. After seven editions, the almost-traditional Village Voice poll of alt-press (and now other) film critics took a hiatus... More >>

• Holiday Lights

  published December 18, 2007

  It's been my experience that the classic movie figure to whom small children respond most immediately is not Buster, Groucho, or Betty Boop but... More >>

• California Burning

  published December 18, 2007

  A great brooding thundercloud of a movie, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood arrives as if from nowhere on a gust of critical... More >>

• Bah, Humbug!

  published December 11, 2007

  Terry Zwigoff's Bad Santa is a one-joke movie, albeit a joke that professional reprobates like W.C. Fields or the young John Waters might... More >>

• Prime Cut

  published December 11, 2007

  Several seasons into the post-2001 millennium, it's apparent that the long-moribund Hollywood musical returns to life each December in the form of... More >>

• Christmastime for Hitler

  published December 4, 2007

  Perhaps not seasonally appropriate but a gift all the same, Facets' 30th- anniversary release of Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's phantasmagoric,... More >>

• Factory Worker

  published December 4, 2007

  Danny Williams, subject of Esther Robinson's documentary portrait A Walk Into the Sea, was a '60s casualty. His brief life derives cultural... More >>

• Fiddle Tricks

  published November 27, 2007

  Much appreciated by Mexican cineasts, writer-director Francisco Vargas's accomplished first feature The Violin is a solemn, suspenseful,... More >>

• Senegal's Son

  published November 20, 2007

  Ousmane Sembène, the Senegalese filmmaker who died last spring at age 84, was African cinema's founding father. More than that,... More >>

• Like a Complete Unknown: I'm Not There and the Changing Face of Bob Dylan on Film

  published November 13, 2007

  I'm Not There is the movie of the year—but to whom does Todd Haynes's Bob Dylan biopic actually belong, and when was it really... More >>

• Oh, the Humanity

  published November 6, 2007

  Hardly a collection of Harry Smith outtakes—although a number of his favorite songsters are represented—the 70 blood-chilling,... More >>

• Bergman's Bad Girl

  published November 6, 2007

  Already the subject of considerable ink, Swedish master Ingmar Bergman's posthumous reputation—or "overrated career," as Jonathan Rosenbaum... More >>

• Mission: Impossible (Again)

  published November 6, 2007

  Acid flashback or déjà vu? Who, having lived through the late '60s, would have anticipated re-experiencing the spectacle of an... More >>

• Panoramas at MOMA

  published October 30, 2007

  Downstairs at the Museum of Modern Art, avant-garde filmmaker Ernie Gehr has put together a five-screen installation bringing the 19th-century... More >>

• It Takes a Village

  published October 23, 2007

  The most plastic-fantastic of Soviet new-wave movies, set among the colorful Gutsul people of the remote eastern Carpathians, Sergei Parajanov's... More >>

• DVD edition!

  published October 16, 2007

  Was there really a Mexican cinema before Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo Del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Carlos... More >>

• Wide World of Warhol

  published October 9, 2007

  For the next four weekends, the Museum of the Moving Image will be screening vintage Warhol in what may be the largest such event since Warhol's... More >>

• Social Suicide

  published October 9, 2007

  Wristcutters: A Love Story, a well-wrought indie written and directed by Goran Dukic, has to be the kewpie doll of current zombie flicks:... More >>

• Blow It Up

  published October 2, 2007

  There's a cineaste myth that Jean-Luc Godard's La Chinoise, which opened in New York on April 3, 1968, at the out-of-the-way Kip's Bay... More >>

• MOMI Does Desplechin

  published September 25, 2007

  The least predictable and most interesting of younger French directors, Arnaud Desplechin may also be the most film-intoxicated. Desplechin's... More >>

• Fight Them Over There

  published September 18, 2007

  Concluding a month that brought the sixth commemoration of 9/11, a video missive from Osama bin Laden, and a surge endorsement by General David... More >>

• Endgame

  published September 18, 2007

  Exit Ghost is the start, or possibly the end, of Philip Roth's long goodbye. It identifies itself as the last of the Zuckerman novels,... More >>

• The Slums of Park Slope

  published September 11, 2007

  Materializing during the Kent State spring of 1970, with M*A*S*H in release and The Angel Levine, not to mention Where's... More >>

• Celebrity Justice

  published September 11, 2007

  Calling all pundits. It's a baffling caprice of the zeitgeist to have two studio westerns released in the same month, 30-odd years after the genre... More >>