J. HOBERMAN

United States

Author at The New York Times

Contributor at New York Review of Books

Recovering film critic

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A War Orphan's Sweet, Ultimately Shattering Story

1 week ago | nytimes.com | J. HOBERMAN

Hailed on its release as the most troubling French film made in the aftermath of World War II, it returns for a week at Film Forum. René Clément's "Forbidden Games" (1952) uses a 5-year-old's wartime ordeal as the basis for a remarkably unsentimental allegory of childhood innocence and adult ignorance. Straightforwardly simple but psychologically complex, the movie is sweet, sardonic, and ultimately shattering.
Fun City: NYC Gets Its Close-Up

3 weeks ago | criterion.com | J. HOBERMAN |Nathaniel Rich

Cotton Comes to Harlem, Bye Bye Braverman, and The Plot Against Harry revel in their locations. Coogan’s Bluff and Little Murders used locations to produce an abstract city suitable to their respective theories of New York. Rosemary’s Baby and The Angel Levine did the same to evoke an imaginary Manhattan appropriate to their supernatural stories.
‘Pink Narcissus’: A Home Movie Both Abject and Erotic

1 month ago | flipboard.com | J. HOBERMAN

13 hours agoHe opened up about the cathartic experience returning to Thailand 20 years later. Trigger warning: This article includes mention of suicide. Walton Goggins’s surly, Hawaiian shirt-wearing Rick Hatchett quickly emerged as one of the most unexpected breakout characters from the White Lotus Season 3, and …
With ‘Él,’ Buñuel Turns His Gaze to Male Pathology

2 months ago | flipboard.com | J. HOBERMAN

NowEurope’s Economic Decoupling From America Is UnderwayFacing the threat of U.S. tariffs, the EU is looking for free trade elsewhere. After the Trump administration imposed tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and …1 hour agoPATRÓN Was Additive-Free Before It Was BuzzyIn 2025, people are more conscious than ever about what goes into the things they consume.
With 'Él,' Buñuel Turns His Gaze to Male Pathology

2 months ago | nytimes.com | J. HOBERMAN

A blasphemous black comedy, part noir, part case history, Luis Buñuel's 1953 Mexican melodrama "Él" amply justifies its inadvertently self-reflexive American release title, "This Strange Passion."One of the rediscoveries of last year's Buñuel retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, "Él" opens for a week at Film Forum in a fine new 4K restoration. The initial sequence, filmed in the nave of a 16th-century Mexico City cathedral, is a well-attended Holy Thursday Mass.
Gerd Stern, Beat Era Poet and Multimedia Artist, Dies at 96

2 months ago | nytimes.com | J. HOBERMAN

Gerd Stern, a Beat Generation poet, pioneering multimedia artist and proponent of sensory overload, whose performances, installations and kinesthetic events involved popular culture notables like Marshall McLuhan, Timothy Leary and the New York City disc jockey Murray the K, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 96. His daughter, Radha Stern, confirmed his death, in a rehabilitation center. He lived in Manhattan.
The Uncomfortable Genius of Mike Leigh

Feb 12, 2025 | thenation.com | J. HOBERMAN

Books & the Arts / February 12, 2025 Parents and Children The uncomfortable genius of Mike Leigh. The Uncomfortable Genius of Mike Leigh In “Hard Truths,” Leigh reminds us that a family dinner can tell the story of a whole society. Ad Policy A still from Hard Truths.(Courtesy of Mongrel Media)A spring morning on a quiet street in suburban North London.
A Classic Disappearing Act Reappears

Jan 29, 2025 | nytimes.com | J. HOBERMAN

Once upon a time in Australia: Three schoolgirls and their teacher vanish in broad daylight while touring a prehistoric landscape. Peter Weir's 1975 film "Picnic at Hanging Rock" epitomizes the idea of the quasi-supernatural "outback uncanny" - the incongruity of a decorous settler civilization on what appears to be an alien planet.
David Lynch obituary: A visionary film-maker whose unnerving perspective extended far beyond the movie screen

Jan 17, 2025 | irishtimes.com | J. HOBERMAN

Born: January 20th, 1946Died: January 16th, 2025David Lynch, who has died aged 78, was a painter turned avant-garde film-maker whose fame, influence and distinctively skewed worldview extended far beyond the movie screen. In 2024, Lynch announced that he had developed emphysema after years of smoking, and that as a result, any subsequent films would have to be directed remotely. Lynch was a visionary.
David Lynch, maker of florid and unnerving films, dies at 78

Jan 16, 2025 | japantimes.co.jp | J. HOBERMAN

David Lynch, a painter turned avant-garde filmmaker whose fame, influence and distinctively skewed worldview extended far beyond the movie screen to encompass television, records, books, nightclubs, a line of organic coffee and his Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, has died. He was 78. His family announced the death on social media Thursday but provided no details.

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