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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2010 Stories by J. Hoberman

• Old Souls Get a Second Life in True Grit and The Illusionist

  published December 22, 2010

  Can these dry bones live? Each in its way, the Coen brothers’ True Grit and Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist breathes... More >>

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  Year in Film: Hoberman's Top 10

  published December 22, 2010

  My favorite movie of 2010 sneaks into town three days before the year ends: The Strange Case of Angelica is a strange case to be sure.... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Year in Film: The 2010 Voice Film Critics' Poll

  published December 22, 2010

  And the winner of the 11th annual Village Voice Film Critics’ Poll is . . . More >>

• Jafar Panahi, Iranian Director, Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison, Banned from Making Movies

  published Dec 20, 2010

  Ten months after his arrest last March, Jafar Panahi -- the most internationally acclaimed of Iranian directors as well as one of the most political in both his movies and his outspoken support for op... More >>

• Casino Jack Gambles Little on the Lobbyist or His Livelihood

  published December 15, 2010

  Returning to the thrilling days of yesteryear, namely the benighted reign of George W. Bush, the late George Hickenlooper’s Casino... More >>

• Tron: Legacy and the Joys of the 3-D CGI Head Trip

  published December 15, 2010

  Jeff Bridges is God and, as image-captured from the original 1982 Tron, he’s also the devil in Disney’s mega-million-dollar reboot,... More >>

• The Fighter Feels Rigged

  published December 8, 2010

  The Fighter is based on the true story of Lowell, Massachusetts, light welterweight champ “Irish” Micky Ward, but, starring... More >>

• Romanian Film Fest Celebrates the Best of the New Wave

  published December 1, 2010

  For one weekend only, a second chance to see the three remarkable Romanian films featured in the last New York Film Festival. Radu... More >>

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  Natalie Portman Goes Batshit in a Tutu in Black Swan

  published December 1, 2010

  A near-irresistible exercise in bravura absurdity, Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan deserves to become a minor classic of heterosexual... More >>

• What to Buy the Movie Buff Who Has Everything?

  published December 1, 2010

  The old year ends and, repackaged for holiday gifting, some things seem absolutely new. The fruit of an eight-year, international restoration... More >>

• The Nutcracker in 3D: Nathan Lane and Nazi Rats!

  published November 24, 2010

  Announced at Cannes in 2007 and scheduled to shoot that summer, Andrei Konchalovsky’s version of The Nutcracker arrives several... More >>

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  The King's Speech: How Therapy Saved Monarchy

  published November 24, 2010

  A picnic for Anglophiles, not to mention a prospective Oscar bonanza for the brothers Weinstein, The King’s Speech is a... More >>

• 'Weimar Cinema' at MOMA: The New German Problem? Too Many Great Films.

  published November 17, 2010

  A few times each decade, the Museum of Modern Art mounts a film retrospective so focused, inclusive, and downright eye-opening, that it begs to... More >>

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  White Material and The Cry of Jazz: Races Clash, Revolutions Ignite

  published November 17, 2010

  Claire Denis’s strongest movie in the decade since Beau Travail, her tense, convulsive White Material is a portrait of... More >>

• Tuli Kupferberg Is God, and a Shoulda-Been Cult Hit Finally Gets Its NY Premiere

  published November 10, 2010

  Voulez-vous coucher avec God?, directed and written by Michael Hirsh and Jack Christie and produced with assistance of the Ontario Arts... More >>

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  Before There Was MTV, There Was Bruce Conner

  published November 10, 2010

  Bruce Conner (1933–2008) was a film artist who changed the game with his first movie, titled A Movie (1958). Every image in this... More >>

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  You Can Go Home Again in Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture

  published November 10, 2010

  Winner of last spring's SXSW festival and current indie darling, Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture is a comedy of youthful confusion that... More >>

• Great Cinema, For a Song, in Guy and Madeline and Ne change rien

  published November 3, 2010

  No sort of motion picture is more stylized, utopian, or fun to theorize than the musical. As an exercise in orchestrated time, each and every... More >>

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  Milestones for the Masters of Suspense: Psycho's 50th, Inspector Bellamy

  published October 27, 2010

  Inspector Bellamy, the last movie Claude Chabrol finished before his death last month at 80, may only occupy a high middling position in... More >>

• Frederick Wiseman's Knockout Boxing Gym

  published October 20, 2010

  “I was recently sitting with a group of French directors, and at a certain point the conversation turned to Fred Wiseman,” critic... More >>

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  Saint Clint's Hereafter Meets Timothy Carey's Greatest Sinner

  published October 13, 2010

  Is America’s last cowboy icon prospecting for more Oscar gold? Taking for his map an original screenplay by British docu-dramatist Peter... More >>

• 'To Save and Project': MOMA's International Orgy of the Newly Preserved

  published October 13, 2010

  The New York Film Festival ends and the city’s most hardcore cinephile celebration opens: Now in its eighth year, “To Save and... More >>

• Tamara Drewe and the Comedy of Going Plastic in a Rustic World

  published October 6, 2010

  Comely, independent, willful young lass returns to collect family inheritance in rural England, drives the local men wild, makes several... More >>

• Feel the Rage All Over Again With Financial Disaster Doc Inside Job

  published October 6, 2010

  Inside Job, Charles Ferguson’s follow-up to his Iraq War gut-twister No End in Sight, is a documentary that inspires less... More >>

• According to The Social Network, You Are Definitely Not the Only Asshole on Facebook

  published September 29, 2010

  The Social Network is a wonderful title, at once Olympian in its detachment and self-descriptive in its buzz. Everyone will opine (and... More >>