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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2011 Stories by J. Hoberman

• The Long Journey to Goodbye in Silent Souls

  published September 14, 2011

  Russian director Aleksei Fedorchenko surfaced here back in 2005 with First on the Moon, an eccentric, wistful mockumentary inventing a... More >>

• Ryan Gosling at the Wheel in the Retro Thrill Ride Drive

  published September 14, 2011

  As stripped-down and propulsive as its robotic title, Drive is the most "American" movie yet by Danish genre director Nicolas Winding... More >>

• George Kuchar 1942-2011

  published Sep 08, 2011

  George Kuchar, the Bronx-raised filmmaker who began his career, along with twin brother Mike, at age 12, died this week in San Francisco after a long battle with prostate cancer. Beginning with The W... More >>

• The Struggle: Black Power Mixtape and Bobby Fischer

  published September 7, 2011

  "The revolution will not be televised." So Gil Scott-Heron asserted in 1970, and so it was not—at least not on American TV. As... More >>

• On Fire: Tsui Hark Back in Action with Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

  published August 31, 2011

  Tsui Hark's visually sumptuous Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame is a strong comeback for the veteran Hong Kong... More >>

• Serge Gainsbourg Boxed into a Biopic in Heroic Life

  published August 31, 2011

  Sometimes it's easier for life to imitate art than vice versa—witness French cartoonist Joann Sfar's first feature, an ambitious attempt... More >>

• The Good Old Days: Tales From the Golden Age and "Ostalgia"

  published August 24, 2011

  The 1990s coinage ostalgie, which combines the German words for "east" and "nostalgia," describes a particular sort of longing.... More >>

• Raul Ruiz, 1941-2011

  published Aug 19, 2011

  One of the most innovative and prolific narrative filmmakers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Chilean-born, Paris-based director Raul Ruiz died today in Paris of a pulmonary infection. Ruiz... More >>

• Robert Breer, 1926-2011

  published Aug 18, 2011

  A pioneering kinetic sculptor, a key member of the great generation of American avant-garde filmmakers, and one of the most influential animators in cinema history, Robert Breer died last Thursday at ... More >>

• With Friends Like These: John Sayles on the Philippine-American War in Amigo

  published August 17, 2011

  John Sayles's Amigo aspires more to educate than entertain, but it's no less engrossing for that. Torn from the pages of history, if not... More >>

• Acid Flashback: On the Road with Ken Kesey's Magic Trip

  published August 3, 2011

  The subject of Magic Trip is the LSD-powered, cross-country road movie orchestrated by novelist Ken Kesey in the summer of '64. More... More >>

• On the Long and Winding Road of Raul Ruiz's Epic Mysteries of Lisbon

  published August 3, 2011

  Say what you will about 19th-century literature—they had stories in those days (and stories within stories). None of the 260 books... More >>

• Shooting to Kill and Kill Again in French Adrenaline Pumper Point Blank

  published July 27, 2011

  Point Blank, a French action film that has nothing to do with the 1967 (and highly Frenchified) John Boorman flick of the same name,... More >>

• In The Future, Miranda July Grows Up

  published July 27, 2011

  Is there such thing as a sincerely calculated naïveté? Or put another way, does Miranda July have any idea of how annoying she... More >>

• Warren William: As Titan of Industry, King of Pre-Code

  published July 20, 2011

  The talkies came, the stock market crashed, and Hollywood ran a race against hysteria. For those who like their movies short, snappy, and... More >>

• Back to the Future: World on a Wire Is Just in Time

  published July 20, 2011

  A virtually unknown, newly restored 1973 two-part telefilm directed by long-gone wunderkind R.W. Fassbinder at the height of his powers,... More >>

• Scandal and Subjective Reality in Errol Morris's Tabloid

  published July 13, 2011

  As a documentarian, Errol Morris is less a humanist than a connoisseur of “human interest,” and Tabloid, his ecstatically... More >>

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  Robert Sklar, 1936-2011

  published Jul 05, 2011

  The New York film community was shocked and saddened this past weekend upon receiving news that Robert Sklar, longtime pillar of NYU's Department of Cinema Studies, had died of injuries suffered in a ... More >>

• Ghetto Bards: Romeo & Juliet in Yiddish and Sholem Aleichem

  published July 6, 2011

  Where once there were millions, there are now, at best, a few hundred thousand Yiddish speakers—mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews, klezmer... More >>

• Mystery Killer on the Loose, Observed, in Aurora

  published June 29, 2011

  Romanian director Cristi Puiu’s follow-up to The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, a bleak comedy following a dying man from hospital to... More >>

• High School Outcast Finds His Place in Terri

  published June 29, 2011

  A genially despised genre appealing to a constant and constantly expanding demographic, the high school movie has for years provided ambitious... More >>

• Apichatpong Weerasethakul Recalls Past Lives; Car 54 Answers the Call

  published June 22, 2011

  To experience Thai film artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s current installation “Primitive,” at the New Museum through July 3,... More >>

• As the Industry Panics, the Times Gets Its Own Reality Show in Page One

  published June 15, 2011

  Nobody cries, “Stop the presses!” in Andrew Rossi’s Page One: Inside the New York Times; no one would dare. There’s... More >>

• Men v. Food: On the Road With Steve and Rob in The Trip

  published June 8, 2011

  Cobbled together from a six-part BBC2 miniseries telecast last fall, The Trip is a talkative faux-reality road film largely improvised... More >>

• Super Fun, Super Loud, Super 8

  published June 8, 2011

  A big-bang demolition derby, J.J. Abrams’s much-anticipated, greatly enjoyable Super 8 seems bound for box-office glory. Opening... More >>