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

• 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 >>

• Repo! The Genetic Opera

  published November 6, 2008

  Movie cults are born, not made. A youthful audience discovered Donnie Darko on its own, even as another demographic transformed The... More >>

• Oliver Stone assigns motive to Dubya's M.O. in W., but at this point, who cares?

  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... More >>

• Bill Maher's Religulous makes an adolescent case against religion

  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 >>

• The Coen Brothers make another mockery with 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... More >>

• The Last Mistress

  published July 24, 2008

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

• Alexandra

  published July 17, 2008

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

• Encounters at the End of the World

  published July 10, 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 >>

• 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 >>

• Seeing Red

  published May 29, 2008

  The Red Balloon was the art-house E.T. of 1956. Flight of the Red Balloon is something far more baffling — a... More >>

• Standard Operating Procedure

  published May 22, 2008

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

  published May 8, 2008

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

• Redbelt

  published May 8, 2008

  David Mamet's Redbelt is a tricky bar brawl: Call it the Roundhouse of Games. The writer-director has scarcely abandoned... More >>

• 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 >>

• 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... More >>

• Chicago 10

  published March 20, 2008

  The Democratic insurgent is the most charismatic candidate since RFK, and the party's convention could be the most convulsive since the debacle... More >>

• Youth Without Youth

  published January 24, 2008

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

• Revelations

  published January 17, 2008

  Richard Kelly shoots the moon with his rich, strange, and very funny sci-fi social satire, Southland Tales. The political... More >>

• There Will Be Blood

  published January 3, 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 >>