J. HOBERMAN

United States

Author at The New York Times

Contributor at New York Review of Books

Recovering film critic

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‘Happiness’: Living in a State of Irony

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | J. HOBERMAN

5 hours agoNew roof and repairs on medieval barn completeWork to restore a 15th century thatched barn in Upminster, east London has been completed. Tithe Barn, which dates back to about 1450 and is among the largest of its kind in England, fell into disrepair in recent years and was believed to be at risk of further decay. Four master thatchers and two …1 hour agoHot job?
Living in a State of Irony

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | J. HOBERMAN

Todd Solondz's 1998 movie, revived for a run at the IFC Center in a new 4K restoration, has scarcely lost its capacity to discomfit. Playfully named " Happiness," Todd Solondz's painful, deadpan burlesque of bourgeois mores encompasses murder, mutilation, rape, pedophilia, suicide, obscene phone calls and free-floating masochism, among syndromes yet to be named. "Happiness" scared off its initial distributor but struck a chord at Cannes.
A War Orphan's Sweet, Ultimately Shattering Story

1 month 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

2 months 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

2 months 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

Mar 12, 2025 | 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

Mar 12, 2025 | 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

Feb 19, 2025 | 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.

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