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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2011 Stories by J. Hoberman

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  Point Blank Review

  published July 28, 2011

  Point Blank, a French action film that has nothing to do with the 1967 (and highly Frenchified) John Boorman flick of the same name,... More >>

• Tabloid Review

  published July 14, 2011

  As a documentarian, Errol Morris is less a humanist than a connoisseur of "human interest," and Tabloid, his queasily... More >>

• Terri Review

  published June 30, 2011

  Terri, directed by Azazel Jacobs, concerns an obese 15-year-old, a de facto orphan, living in a ramshackle home with a dispirited,... More >>

• Super 8 Review

  published June 9, 2011

  A big-bang demolition derby, J.J. Abrams' much-anticipated, greatly enjoyable Super 8 seems bound for box office glory.... More >>

• The Trip Review

  published June 9, 2011

  Cobbled together from a six-part BBC2 miniseries telecast last fall, The Trip is a talkative faux-reality road film largely improvised... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Cannes 2011: The Winners

  published May 23, 2011

  CANNES, FRANCE -- The 64th Cannes Film Festival provided an exceptionally rich and varied slate and the jury -- headed by Robert De Niro--proved both gracious and judicious in dividing their prizes a... More >>

• Cannes 2011: We the Jury

  published May 20, 2011

  CANNES, FRANCE -- The fun is winding down and the sad thing is, there could have been even more. Cannes's programmers had carefully contrived a Palme d'Or celebrity death match between two wildly p... More >>

• Cannes 2011: Lars von Trier Kicked Out

  published May 19, 2011

  CANNES, FRANCE -- Big news day on La Croisette: First, the only outside story with any traction here became a bit more intense when reports of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's resignation fueled the conspira... More >>

• Cannes Dispatch: Dysfunction Junction

  published May 19, 2011

  Midway through the Cannes Film Festival in France, the competition has been all about family — more specifically, all about... More >>

• Cannes 2011: Lars von Trier's Melancholia. Wow.

  published May 18, 2011

  CANNES, FRANCE -- The second shoe dropped -- or rather exploded -- this morning in Cannes. A combination of luck and programming genius contrived to have Lars von Trier's Melancholia screened for the... More >>

• Cannes 2011: Terrence Malick and Brad Pitt's The Tree of Life Gets Irate Boos Followed by Thin Applause

  published May 16, 2011

  CANNES, FRANCE -- Much improved since I last posted, the Cannes Film Festival celebrated its midpoint in train-wreck fashion, its wagon to hitched to The Tree of Life. The first screening of Terre... More >>

• Cannes 2011: Good Movies, Where Are Your

  published May 13, 2011

  CANNES, France. The air is sweet, the food is fine, the company agreeable, but the movies so far... oy vey. With one exception: Inspired by the true story of a Tijuana beauty queen who got mixed up ... More >>

• The Arbor Review

  published May 12, 2011

  Precocious playwright Andrea Dunbar (1961-90) spoke for the lumpen abused of her native Bradford, England. The Arbor,... More >>

• Cannes 2011: The Quest to Avoid Lady Gaga Begins!

  published May 11, 2011

  CANNES, FRANCE -- That faint noise wafting in mid-afternoon from across the Atlantic will not be the cacophony of bravos raising the Grand Palais roof in appreciation of the 65th Cannes Film Festiva... More >>

• The Beaver Review

  published May 5, 2011

  An earnest, intermittently droll dramedy about a manic-depressive toy manufacturer and his bewildered family, The... More >>

• Cave of Forgotten Dreams Review

  published April 28, 2011

  One of the few justifiable recent excursions into 3-D, Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreamsdocuments a secret wonder of the world,... More >>

• Meek's Cutoff Review

  published April 21, 2011

  Tenacious indie filmmaker Kelly Reichardt has specialized in quirky, minimalist quasi–road movies in which loners come... More >>

• Le Quattro Volte (The Four Times): Animal Collective

  published April 14, 2011

  Grave, beautiful, austerely comic and casually metempsychotic, Michelangelo Frammartino's Le Quattro Volte (The Four... More >>

• Battleship Potemkin: Sergei Eisenstein’s history-making bombshell

  published March 17, 2011

  The Russian master’s 1925 bombshell, Battleship Potemkin, showing for a week at the Nuart in its definitive restoration, was... More >>

• Iranian Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy

  published March 10, 2011

  Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy is exactly that: The Iranian modernist's first feature to be shot in the West is a... More >>

• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

  published March 3, 2011

  GO  UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES The acme of no-budget, Buddhist-animist, faux-naïve, avant-pop magic... More >>

• We Are What We Are

  published February 24, 2011

  GO  WE ARE WHAT WE ARE The tale of a disoriented cannibal family trying to survive in the lower depths of Mexico... More >>

• Of Gods and Men

  published February 24, 2011

  OF GODS AND MEN The eight gentle Trappist monks depicted in Of Gods and Men uphold the faith that brought them from... More >>

• The Eagle

  published February 10, 2011

  THE EAGLE The Eagle, directed by Kevin Macdonald and adapted from Rosemary Sutcliff's 1954 historical novel The... More >>

• Cedar Rapids

  published February 10, 2011

  CEDAR RAPIDS Miguel Arteta's amiable Cedar Rapids is a mild comedy of embarrassment, set in the dark heart of Middle... More >>