J. Hoberman

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 Festival, and I was convinced that it was even better than Duck Soup, possibly the greatest movie ever made. And it is for a 17-year-old. The......

Ingmar Bergman directed over 50 features, but he was a significant figure in 20th-century culture in part because he was so obviously significant. Last week’s inch-above-the-fold front-page New York Times obituary cites Woody Allen’s pledge of allegiance: The Swedish director was nothing less than “the greatest film artist . . . since......

{mosimage} So lame it’s cool? Nancy Drew, writer-director Andrew Fleming’s attempt to jump-start a new Warner Bros. franchise, is a movie flaunting a most obvious demographic strategy — a teen flick with a sensibility, or at least a sense of humor, that’s most definitely parental.Invented in 1930 by the same......

{mosimage} This documentary about mass food production by Austrian documentarian Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Elsewhere) opens with an endless row of trussed pig carcasses, neatly hanging by their hind legs. What ensues is a cool, nearly wordless succession of scenes from the European food industry. When not hitching a ride on a......