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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2010 Stories by J. Hoberman

• Daddy Longlegs: The Kids Are Not All Right

  published July 8, 2010

  Suppose what we call "parenting" is just a situation in which overgrown kids take care of smaller ones? That's the underlying... More >>

• Ernst Lubitsch: Sweet Smell of Excess

  published July 8, 2010

  There is no Hollywood movie more insouciantly amoral than Ernst Lubitsch's 1932 Trouble in Paradise, screening at... More >>

• Wild Grass: Red Bull

  published June 24, 2010

  Alain Resnais' Wild Grass has plenty of fans — it copped an award at Cannes in 2009 — but I don't see... More >>

• Regard From Cannes

  published May 27, 2010

  Midway through the 63rd Cannes Film Festival it was clear that the action this year (even more than in the past) was to be... More >>

• Everyone Else: Bad Romance

  published May 13, 2010

  An exercise in voyeurism, Maren Ade's provocatively titled, superbly performed, emotionally graphic Everyone Else is... More >>

• Please Give: Liberal Guilt's Got Soul

  published April 29, 2010

  Nicole Holofcener's fourth feature, Please Give, is a notable rebound from the insufficiently examined... More >>

• Strange Fascination

  published April 8, 2010

  A rock doc with more than a whiff of fried brain cells, Tom DiCillo's When You're Strange serves to remind the faithful that the Doors... More >>

• Greenberg: Los Angeles Plays Itself

  published March 18, 2010

  Sad, funny and acutely self-conscious, Noah Baumbach's new movie is the sort of mordant character study that people imagine... More >>

• Meet the Michel Gondry of Belgian puppet animation

  published January 28, 2010

  Animals and people are all jumbled up in A Town Called Panic, a hyperactive Belgian puppet animation — as in the central... More >>

• Wheels of History: The Bicycle Thief returns in a new 35mm print

  published January 7, 2010

  The most influential movement in film history consisted of about 20 movies produced between 1944 and 1952. Italian neorealism was the original... More >>