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2012 Stories by Jim Hoberman

• La Ronde

  published January 4, 2012

  Dir. Max Ophuls (1950). Few movies are more “Viennese” than Ophuls’s ultra-civilized sex comedy. Following a particular erotic... More >>

• Au Hasard Balthasar

  published January 4, 2012

  Dir. Robert Bresson (1966). Bringing together all Bresson’s ideas about acting, sound, and editing, as well as grace, redemption, and human... More >>

• An Injury to One

  published January 4, 2012

  Dir. Travis Wilkerson (2002). Recalling the great strikes of the World War I period and explicates the death of an IWW organizer in Butte, Montana... More >>

• I Was Born, But...

  published January 4, 2012

  Dir. Yasujiro Ozu (1932). Class relations enter the family: Ozu called this silent comedy—one of the best movies about children ever... More >>

• Drive

  published January 4, 2012

  Dir. Nicholas Winding Refn (2011). As stripped-down and propulsive as its robotic title, Drive is the most “American” movie yet... More >>

• The Fall

  published January 4, 2012

  Dir. Peter Whitehead (1969). A British documentarian comes to New York and finds himself joining the Columbia students barricaded in Low Library.... More >>

• Sunrise

  published January 4, 2012

  Dir. F.W. Murnau (1927). Silent cinema reaches its acme with movement of Murnau’s camera through the vaporous fields of an invented America.... More >>

• The Vagabond

  published January 4, 2012

  Dir. Raj Kapoor (1951). Kapoor became India’s greatest star (as well as a Soviet icon) directing himself as Chaplinesque protagonist in this... More >>

• The Scarlet Letter

  published January 4, 2012

  Dir. Victor Sjostrom (1927). America’s greatest silent actress Lillian Gish is Hester Prynne in this surprisingly faithful, silent... More >>

• Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne

  published January 4, 2012

  Dir. Robert Bresson (1945). Bresson began to find his style in this fierce, strategically stilted tale of sexual revenge—a transposition of... More >>