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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

• Lee Tracy and 'The Newspaper Picture' Series at Film Forum

  published April 6, 2010

  An extra folded into Film Forum's all-35mm, month-long celebration of "The Newspaper Picture" (April 9 through May 6) celebrates the brashest,... More >>

• Becoming a Couple in Everyone Else

  published April 6, 2010

  An exercise in voyeurism, Maren Ade's provocatively titled, superbly performed, emotionally graphic Everyone Else is more fascinating... More >>

• My Favorite Things

  published Apr 01, 2010

  Hollywood's voyage to the Third Dimension is continuing apace with announced plans to re-release newly 3-D-ized versions of 2001, Star Wars, and The Passion of the Christ, but the first 3-D musical --... More >>

• Film Note: 'Leaves of Grass' Pulled from April 2 Release at Last Moment

  published Mar 31, 2010

  Oops! Too late for us to make changes to this morning's Voice, we learned about a last-minute change in this week's film releases. Reviewed and advertised in this week's newspaper, Tim Blake Nelson'... More >>

• Hound of the Baskervilles and Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on DVD

  published March 30, 2010

  Robert Downey Jr.'s two-fisted boho Sherlock Holmes, newly out on DVD, is likely to last a couple of rounds, but the definitive embodiment of... More >>

• Mario Montez Tribute, Black Cinema Tribute, and More Film Happenings

  published Mar 25, 2010

  Spring break for some, but film school ain't entirely out -- academic symposia are picking up the slack. Wednesday, March 31, Columbia University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race holds a d... More >>

• NYU Wants Spacer Here's How to Win Our Approval

  published Mar 24, 2010

  NYU has money, NYU needs space, NYU says it wants to work with the community. OK, so here are five things NYU can do, only two of which require new construction: 1. Relocate nursing school to St Vi... More >>

• Atom Egoyan's Chloe Is Posh, Cool, and Never Less Than Obvious

  published March 24, 2010

  A sort of adult fairy tale, in which the real trouble starts after 20 years of marriage, Atom Egoyan's Chloe is posh, cool, and never... More >>

• After the Wedding Bells Comes the Drama for the Wife of Bluebeard

  published March 24, 2010

  Psychologically rich, unobtrusively minimalist, at once admirably straightforward and slyly comic, Catherine Breillat's Bluebeard is a... More >>

• Fess Parker (1925-2010)

  published Mar 18, 2010

  The teenagers had Elvis but, for a brief moment a bit more than half a century ago this spring, Fess Parker's King of the Wild Frontier was the idol of every American six-year-old within range of a TV... More >>

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  If Armond White Only Knew What a Monster J. Hoberman Really Is...

  published Mar 17, 2010

  Armond White is miffed that last week I verified what some thought an urban myth by retrieving his 1997 review of Noah Baumbach's Mr. Jealousy from the public library and posting on line it in its ent... More >>

• The Prowler at Film Forum

  published March 16, 2010

  Revived for a week at Film Forum in an excellent restored print, The Prowler (1951) may be the creepiest of classic noirs. Joseph... More >>

• Noah Baumbach Heads to L.A. for Greenberg

  published March 16, 2010

  Sad, funny, and acutely self-conscious, Noah Baumbach's Greenberg is unafraid to project a downbeat worldview or feature an impossible... More >>

• 'Alice in Wonderland' And Photo Cut-Ups at the Met

  published Mar 15, 2010

  I look at "Playing with Pictures," the small exhibition of Victorian photo-collage tucked in the recesses of the Metropolitan Museum, and I see the participatory future... as well as the remote past, ... More >>

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  Proof That Critic Armond White Did Call for Noah Baumbach's Abortion

  published Mar 10, 2010

  The New York film world was all a twitter yesterday, when an anonymous e-mail went out announcing that New York Press critic Armond White had been disinvited from a critics screening for Greenberg, th... More >>

• Bong Joon-ho's Mother Instinct

  published March 9, 2010

  Mother, Bong Joon-ho's follow-up to The Host—the killer killer-tadpole allegory that was an international gross-out... More >>

• Matt Damon's WMD of a Movie, Green Zone

  published March 9, 2010

  Better late than never—a bang-bang pulse-pounder predicated on the Bush administration's deliberate fabrication of WMD in Iraq. Paul... More >>

• The Best Movie Actually Won, But Couldn't Save the Evening

  published Mar 08, 2010

  That distant thunder rumbling throughout last night's Oscar broadcast was not the noise of explosions in Baghdad but the sound of channels turning to reruns of Boston Legal or Bad Boys II, amplified b... More >>

• Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

  published March 2, 2010

  Walt Disney mulled an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland for decades before producing an animated feature in 1951, although by all... More >>

• Avatar at the Oscars: What are the Oddsr

  published Mar 01, 2010

  The whole Avatarization meme, with Photoshop-savvy fans recruiting icons (Hugh Laurie, Lil Wayne, Angelina Jolie, John Goodman, Sasha Grey, Mr. Bean et al) into the Na'vi tribe -- peaked around Valent... More >>

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  Martin Scorsese and Leo DiCaprio: Today's Astaire and Rogers!

  published Feb 22, 2010

  The people have spoken: Shutter Island grossed $40.2 million this weekend. Olympic ice-dancing aside, the movie didn't face much competition (no other newbies in the top ten) but, hey, the numbers are... More >>