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J. Hoberman

Triumph of the Will

By J. Hoberman
February 5, 2019
Museum quality: Leni Riefenstahl and the aestheticization of politics

Excerpt: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan: The Triumph of Tribalism

By J. Hoberman
October 6, 2018
Barbarians at the gate: Conan set forth a big, dumb anthem to destruction that can be heard to this day

The Devil and Miss Mansfield

By J. Hoberman
September 7, 2017
A lurid collection of photographs descends into decadent late 1960s Hollywood

Book Review: A Kim Jong-Il Production

By J. Hoberman
March 2, 2015
The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator’s Rise to Power by Paul Fischer

NYFF: The 1968 Edition

By J. Hoberman
September 22, 2014
Misspent youth: J. Hoberman's vintage screed about the festival—misspellings included

Cine Obamarama

By J. Hoberman
May 29, 2014
The Presiding-While-Black Scenario

Red Modernism

By J. Hoberman
February 4, 2014
In Hungarian master Miklós Jancsó's informal late-Sixties trilogy, geometry and choreography are key

Box Set Pick: Shoah

By J. Hoberman
April 28, 2013
(Criterion, $99.95)

Exorcism: Aleksei German Among the Long Shadows

By J. Hoberman
February 27, 2012
From the January/February 1999 issue

Beat Street: Johnny Staccato

By J. Hoberman
June 1, 2011
Meet Johnny Staccato, John Cassavetes' hipster TV detective

Distributor Wanted: In the City of Sylvia

By J. Hoberman
May 27, 2011
Love's Labor's Lost

The Moguls and the Dictators: Hollywood and the Coming of World War II

By J. Hoberman
May 26, 2011
J. Hoberman's uncut review of The Moguls and the Dictators: Hollywood and the Coming of World War II