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

• Langella and Sheen in Frost/Nixon Capture a Summit of Egos

  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... More >>

• Gus Van Sant’s Milk Recaptures Californian Intolerance at Exactly the Right Time

  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 that there could be a Ming... More >>

• Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Salutes the Journalist’s Substance

  published October 30, 2008

  In a nation of frightened dullards, there is always a sorry shortage of outlaws, and those few who make the grade are always welcome." So wrote... More >>

• Happy-Go-Lucky’s Sally Hawkins Just Might Get You to Cheer Up

  published October 23, 2008

  The protag of Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky is a modestly gaudy people's heroine industriously repairing the social world, one frayed... More >>

• Oliver Stone Assigns Motive to W.’s M.O., 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 '60s, this... More >>

• Burn After Reading: the latest Coen brothers mockery

  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 >>

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

  published August 21, 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 >>

• Carell and Hathaway’s Get Smart is a remake that works on its own terms

  published June 19, 2008

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

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

  published June 5, 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 >>

• Steven Soderbergh’s Che wins the only Cannes award that matters: ours

  published May 29, 2008

  CANNES, France — The competition for the Palme d'Or is ongoing as I write, yet the red carpet has been rolled up as you read. You... More >>

• Cannes takes a decidedly serious tone with films featuring sites of social conflict

  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 >>

• Cannes Class of 2008: A jury divided unites around Laurent Cantet's schoolhouse

  published May 22, 2008

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

• Wachowski brothers’ Speed Racer is anime in overdrive without substance

  published May 8, 2008

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

• Director David Mamet and his hero fight the power and succumb to it in 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 >>

• Morgan Spurlock attempts political commentary with Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? but falls short of Michael Moore

  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 Super... More >>

• Youth Without Youth: Coppola’s back with a Faustian romance about the reversal of time

  published January 10, 2008

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

• California Burning

  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 critical... More >>

• Final Cut

  published January 3, 2008

  It's that time of year again. Our six critics don't always (or often) agree, but we've combined their top 10 lists (allowing for ties) to pretend... More >>