J Hoberman
@jhoberman.bsky.social
Occasional film critic, Columbia adjunct, old VV staff writer
📚 Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism, 3 books on Hollywood & the Cold War
🔜Everything is Now: NYC 60s Avantgarde
📚 Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism, 3 books on Hollywood & the Cold War
🔜Everything is Now: NYC 60s Avantgarde
Did you read the whole piece? I'll try and send it on if not.
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Did you read the whole piece? I'll try and send it on if not.
Given Noem's porny self-presentation I was thinking of the movie but of course the name "Koch" didn't come out of thin air.
November 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Given Noem's porny self-presentation I was thinking of the movie but of course the name "Koch" didn't come out of thin air.
Do you happen to remember the name of the film or director?
November 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Do you happen to remember the name of the film or director?
A critic needs to be able to withstand peer pressure.
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
A critic needs to be able to withstand peer pressure.
Yeah. Nobody ever mentions that either probably b/c the two films by one director is a ploy that has been used before, viz Godard or Fassbinder.
November 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Yeah. Nobody ever mentions that either probably b/c the two films by one director is a ploy that has been used before, viz Godard or Fassbinder.
Amazing that people remember this Queens-kid's gesture after nearly 40 years--some w disapproval. Interesting that no one ever points out that I hedged my bets by making an 11-Best list with the addition of SOMETHING WILD. Including a film by Clement Klopfenstein was actually a lot weirder.
November 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Amazing that people remember this Queens-kid's gesture after nearly 40 years--some w disapproval. Interesting that no one ever points out that I hedged my bets by making an 11-Best list with the addition of SOMETHING WILD. Including a film by Clement Klopfenstein was actually a lot weirder.
Of course not. My point is that Vance was parroting a nativist line advanced by the KKK--antisemitic but also at that time anti-Catholic--that would deny all who sought asylum.
November 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Of course not. My point is that Vance was parroting a nativist line advanced by the KKK--antisemitic but also at that time anti-Catholic--that would deny all who sought asylum.
How about Send Schumer to Florida
November 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
How about Send Schumer to Florida
He's actually following the KKK line. Btw, not only Jews but Italians and all East Europeans (not to mention Asians) were banned.
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
He's actually following the KKK line. Btw, not only Jews but Italians and all East Europeans (not to mention Asians) were banned.
Yes, she lost because (for whatever reason) Democrats stayed home.
November 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Yes, she lost because (for whatever reason) Democrats stayed home.
Yes, I also took a course w Wollen at Columbia. Thx to Signs & Meaning, it was packed. Most memorably Kathryn Bigelow was in the class & Wollen who struck me as entertaining if supercilious did insist in pronouncing Godard with a short "o," an emphasis on the 2nd syllable and an audible final "d."
November 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Yes, I also took a course w Wollen at Columbia. Thx to Signs & Meaning, it was packed. Most memorably Kathryn Bigelow was in the class & Wollen who struck me as entertaining if supercilious did insist in pronouncing Godard with a short "o," an emphasis on the 2nd syllable and an audible final "d."