J. Hoberman

Museum quality: Leni Riefenstahl and the aestheticization of politics

Barbarians at the gate: Conan set forth a big, dumb anthem to destruction that can be heard to this day

A lurid collection of photographs descends into decadent late 1960s Hollywood

The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator’s Rise to Power by Paul Fischer

Misspent youth: J. Hoberman's vintage screed about the festival—misspellings included

The Presiding-While-Black Scenario

In Hungarian master Miklós Jancsó's informal late-Sixties trilogy, geometry and choreography are key

(Criterion, $99.95)

From the January/February 1999 issue

Meet Johnny Staccato, John Cassavetes' hipster TV detective

Love's Labor's Lost

J. Hoberman's uncut review of The Moguls and the Dictators: Hollywood and the Coming of World War II