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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2007 Stories by J. Hoberman

• Youth Without Youth: Those Were the Days

  published December 13, 2007

  Youth Without Youth, Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed return to the fray, is a curious project — well-crafted, personal,... More >>

• The Walker: Mr. Schrader Goes to Washington

  published December 6, 2007

  Paul Schrader’s cinema is largely defined by the pathology of his male protagonists, and with The Walker, he’s added a... More >>

• Redacted's Mission: Impossible

  published November 15, 2007

  Acid flashback or déjà vu? Who, having lived through the late ’60s, would have anticipated re-experiencing the spectacle of an... More >>

• American Gangster: Harlem Knight

  published November 1, 2007

  American Gangster is a movie with obvious gravitas and a familiar argument: Organized crime is outsider capitalism. As archetypal as its... More >>

• Social Suicide

  published October 25, 2007

  Wristcutters: A Love Story, a well-wrought indie written and directed by Goran Dukic, has to be the kewpie doll of current zombie... More >>

• Lake of Fire: Pro-Debate

  published October 11, 2007

  Named for the spot in Christian-fundamentalist hell where sinners are condemned to spend eternity, Tony Kaye’s Lake of Fire is a... More >>

• Anatomy of a Murder

  published September 20, 2007

  Calling all pundits. It’s a baffling caprice of the Zeitgeist to have two studio Westerns released in the same month, 30-odd years after... More >>

• Wind From the East

  published September 13, 2007

  I’ve said it before and hope to again: David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original and consistently excellent North American... More >>

• Le Doulos

  published September 6, 2007

  The universe of Jean-Pierre Melville is so specific to the movies that it verges on abstraction. The sun rarely shines and the universe weeps... More >>

• the Good, the Bad and the Set Pieces

  published September 6, 2007

  Johnnie To is the lone Hong Kong action director who’s done his best work in the aftermath of the crown colony’s reversion to... More >>

• Pierrot Le Fou

  published August 9, 2007

  I first saw Jean-Luc Godard’s 1965 Pierrot le Fou when I was 17, having sneaked into a press screening at the New York Film... More >>

• Saying Goodbye to Two Giants of Cinema

  published August 9, 2007

  Ingmar Bergman directed over 50 features, but he was a significant figure in 20th-century culture in part because he was so obviously... More >>

• Nancy Drew and the Mystery of the Tween Demo

  published June 14, 2007

  {mosimage} So lame it’s cool? Nancy Drew, writer-director Andrew Fleming’s attempt to jump-sta... More >>

• Our Daily Bread

  published February 22, 2007

  {mosimage} This documentary about mass food production by Austrian documentarian Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Elsewhere) opens with an endless... More >>