Email Author Jim Hoberman

2010 Stories by Jim Hoberman

• From Here to Eternity

  published March 9, 2010

  Dir. Fred Zinnemann (1953). This quintessential service drama, set on an Oahu army base in late 1941, exemplifies something that ended with The... More >>

• Native Land

  published March 9, 2010

  Dir. Leo Hurwitz & Paul Strand (1942) The Pop Front equivalent of Gone With the Wind is a heartfelt, heavy-handed docu-dramatic... More >>

• The Brain from Planet Arous

  published March 9, 2010

  Dir. Nathan Juran (1958). Programmed by Tim Burton as part of his “Lurid Beauty of Monsters” series, this enjoyably idiotic cheapster... More >>

• Test Pilot

  published March 9, 2010

  Dir. Victor Fleming (1938). Exemplifying the MGM house style, this vintage hokum has everything—romance, adventure, comedy, pathos, and even... More >>

• Pickpocket

  published March 2, 2010

  Dir. Jia Zhangke (1997). The other Pickpocket, titled in tribute to Robert Bresson, is Jia Zhangke’s first feature; known in Chinese... More >>

• Red Dust

  published March 2, 2010

  Dir. Victor Fleming (1932). Pre-code and hopelessly un-PC, this bit of Indochinese erotic intrigue projects MGM star power at its finest—with... More >>

• The French Connection

  published March 2, 2010

  Dir. William Friedkin (1971). Fraught with urban decay and racial tension, this bang-bang procedural created a paradigm for the tell-it-like-it-is... More >>

• Pickpocket

  published March 2, 2010

  Robert Bresson (1959). Austere and implacable, Bresson’s most influential movie shows crime as a spiritual vocation and punishment as a form... More >>

• Bluebeard

  published March 2, 2010

  Edgar G. Ulmer (1944). The Maestro of Poverty Row is near top form with this atmospheric evocation of mid 19th-century Paris. Shakespearean actor... More >>