Email Author J. Hoberman
Awards
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2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 13, 2009
"Let the Mild Rumpus Start!"
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2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 29, 2009
"Robert Frank's Real America"
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2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 4, 2009
"Why Hard Times Won't Mean Good Times"
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2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 12, 2008
"Deep Freeze"
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2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 18, 2008
"What We Learned About the Election in this Summer's Movies"
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2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published January 24, 2008
"Kill One for the Gipper"
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2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 5, 2006
"Mel Gibson is Responsible for All the Wars in the World"
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2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 16, 2006
"The New Disaster Movie"
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2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 14, 2006
"Anarchy in the UK"
2011 Stories by J. Hoberman
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Suze Rotolo, 1943-2011
published Feb 27, 2011
The Village lost a life-long partisan and a true voice last Friday, with the passing of Susan Rotolo after a long illness, at home in her Noho loft and the arms of her husband of 40 years, Enzo Bartoc... More >>
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Keeping the Faith in Of Gods and Men and Diary of a Country Priest
published February 23, 2011
We have our martyrs and they have theirs. The eight gentle Trappist monks depicted in Of Gods and Men uphold the faith that brought them... More >>
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MOMI Screens Markopoulos Rarity Eniaios: Cycle Five
published February 16, 2011
The pillars of the old New American Cinema have never lacked for ambition: In 1968, Andy Warhol showed a one- time-only 24-hour movie; a few... More >>
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Mexico City Cannibals Prowl for Snacks in We Are What We Are
published February 16, 2011
The tale of a disoriented cannibal family trying to survive in the lower depths of Mexico City, Jorge Michel Grau’s We Are What We... More >>
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Second-Century Derring-Do in The Eagle
published February 9, 2011
The Eagle, directed by Kevin Macdonald and adapted from Rosemary Sutcliff’s 1954 historical novel, The Eagle of the Ninth, a... More >>
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A Middle-Aged Sales Rep Goes Wild in Cedar Rapids
published February 9, 2011
Fresh from Sundance, Miguel Arteta’s amiable Cedar Rapids is a mild comedy of embarrassment, set in the dark heart of Middle... More >>
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Into Eternity: Where the Past Meets the Future in a Wintry Ground Zero
published February 2, 2011
Danish artist Michael Madsen’s Into Eternity, which had its local premiere at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, documents an... More >>
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Mysteries Abound in the Mumble-Noir Cold Weather
published February 2, 2011
Cheerfully diffident, garrulous yet uninflected, blithely self-absorbed, the mumblecore brand proliferates: Last year’s star vehicles... More >>
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The American Films of Mad Genius Fritz Lang Expand Genres
published January 26, 2011
Fritz Lang (1890–1976) may not be Hollywood’s greatest genre director—I’d nominate Don Siegel—but, as the mad genius... More >>
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Ambisexual Hotties Go Sky-High in Kaboom
published January 26, 2011
As spacey as its title suggests, Gregg Araki’s latest youth film is an occult mystery set in the ultimate SoCal college playpen.... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
J. Hoberman Responds to Armond White
published Jan 19, 2011
One would have to be as nutty as outgoing New York Film Critics Circle chairman and New York Press film critic Armond White to attempt to refute his lies, exaggerations, fantasies, smears and false as... More >>
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Photographer Francesca Woodman Gets Her Close-Up in a Haunting Family Study
published January 19, 2011
Francesca Woodman was not a survivor. Or, rather, the photographer who—along with her parents, Betty and George Woodman—is the... More >>
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The Way Back Is a Grueling Trip
published January 19, 2011
They call it “human interest.” There are few narratives more compelling than a survival story like Peter Weir’s adventure yarn... More >>
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Battleship Potemkin, a/k/a Cinema History's Third Greatest Game-Changer
published January 12, 2011
The Russian master’s 1925 bombshell Battleship Potemkin, showing for a week at Film Forum in its definitive restoration, was cinema... More >>
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Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet: Superhero Slob
published January 12, 2011
Only inertia will bring people to Michel Gondry’s 3-D spectacle, The Green Hornet. Opening amid persistent negative buzz in the... More >>
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Romania Goes to Juvie in If I Want to Whistle, I'll Whistle
published January 5, 2011
Youthful offender, two years in juvenile detention and only a week from release, gets a visit from his dysfunctional family and flips out... More >>
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Go Go Tales A Sweet Strip Tease
published January 5, 2011
As the man himself might say: Who da fuck is Abel Ferrara? The self-taught pioneer of post-porn punxploitation—The Driller... More >>
