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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2008 Stories by J. Hoberman

• Best Films of 2008

  published December 25, 2008

  Is it a sign of the apocalypse? Something in the water? Or is it just the way the wind is blowing? Whatever the case, when our... More >>

• Nixon in a Deep Frost

  published December 11, 2008

  I hear America singing and I see...Richard Nixon. Not the man but the muse: Has any president since Lincoln inspired more movies, TV miniseries... More >>

• Desplechin's A Christmas Tale is the Gift This Season Needs

  published December 4, 2008

  Arnaud Desplechin is a cinema maximalist: A Christmas Tale feels like all 12 days of seasonal merriment, and then some. This comic,... More >>

• Proposition Hate: Milk

  published November 27, 2008

  Gus Van Sant has never been what you'd call a risk-averse filmmaker, but he directs his Harvey Milk biopic so carefully, there might be a Ming... More >>

• Still Catching the Wave with A Girl Cut in Two

  published November 6, 2008

  From the standpoint of 2008, the French new wave that broke half a century ago is a towering monument to a particular moment — a solitary... More >>

• Bush's Brain: W.

  published October 16, 2008

  W. may be less frenzied than the usual Oliver Stone sensory bombardment, but in revisiting the early '00s by way of the late '60s,... More >>

• Bill Maher Makes an Adolescent Case against Religion in Religulous

  published October 2, 2008

  Redolent of Roman decadence and authority gone mad, the title Religulous rolls pleasingly off the tongue. But Bill Maher's... More >>

• Intolerable Cruelty: Burn After Reading

  published September 11, 2008

  Masters of the carefully crafted cheap shot, Joel and Ethan Coen have built a career on flippancy. Given their refusal to take anything seriously... More >>

• Army of One in Alexandra

  published August 14, 2008

  Spare yet tactile, a mysterious mixture of lightness and gravity, Alexander Sokurov's Alexandra is founded on contradiction. Musing on... More >>

• Provocateurs Catherine Breillat and Asia Argento Put Their Stamp (or tattoo) on 19th-Century France

  published August 7, 2008

  Catherine Breillat hitches her wagon to the hottest of European stars, Asia Argento, in a highly entertaining adaptation of French dandy... More >>

• Werner Herzog Treks to Antarctica in Encounters at the End of the World

  published July 31, 2008

  Some say the world will end in fire, some — like Werner Herzog — say ice. Flying in the face of global warming, this profoundly... More >>

• Get Smart Redux is a Rare Device

  published June 19, 2008

  As old Broadway shows are revived, new Broadway shows get spun from old movies so that new movies may be fashioned from ancient TV series. It's... More >>

• Cannes Class of 2008

  published May 29, 2008

  CANNES, France—Wading through 20-odd movies in half as many languages, each Cannes jury supplies its own dramatic narrative, to be... More >>

• Shots in the Dark

  published May 29, 2008

  CANNES, France—No need for dreaming here. Each Cannes Film Festival generates its own metaphors for a 10-day regimen of visions in the... More >>

• Errol Morris cuts the Abu Ghraib MPs some slack in Standard Operating Procedure

  published May 22, 2008

  It's been 20 years since Errol Morris made The Thin Blue Line — a found "noir" that served to free an innocent man convicted of... More >>

• Shots in the Dark

  published May 22, 2008

  Cannes, France — No need for dreaming here. Each Cannes Film Festival generates its own metaphors for a 10-day regimen of visions in the... More >>

• Presenting the only Cannes awards that really matter: Ours.

  published May 22, 2008

  CANNES, France—The competition for the Palme d'Or is ongoing as I write, but the story of the 61st Cannes Film Festival is Steven... More >>

• Speed Racer Is a Fast Track to Nowhere

  published May 8, 2008

  Converting a fondly remembered cartoon series — one of the first Japanese animes syndicated on American TV — into a prospective... More >>

• Leaving no gimmick unturned, that Super Size Me guy goes searching for Public Enemy No. 1 in Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?

  published April 17, 2008

  Morgan Spurlock, the daredevil documentarian who lived on Big Macs for a month and turned this exercise in "body art" into the 2004 hit... More >>

• Sk8er Boi: Paranoid Park

  published March 20, 2008

  The pleasing circularity of Gus Van Sant's masterful Paranoid Park is not only a function of the film's narrative structure but reflects... More >>

• Youth Without Youth Is Not Entirely Terrible

  published January 24, 2008

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

• There Will Be Blood

  published January 10, 2008

  A great brooding thundercloud of a movie, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood arrives as if from nowhere on a gust of... More >>