AltWeeklies Wire
The Unquiet Americansnew
Clintonian crisis managers head to Bolivia to teach a candidate how to buy a presidency.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
03-01-2006 |
Reviews
Second Naturenew
A haunting documentary revisits age-old questions of an essential self.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
02-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Rupert Murray, Unknown White Male
Altered Statesnew
The Russian thriller Night Watch and the Southern mock-doc CSA: The Confederate States of America imagine scary dystopias.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
02-15-2006 |
Reviews
Plantation Nationnew
Von Trier's redundant Dogville sequel dilutes the vitriol for a didactic tale of democracy gone awry.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
01-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Lars von Trier, Manderlay
Delhi Laughsnew
A funny thing happened on the way to the mosque -- Brooks gets lost in translation.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
01-18-2006 |
Reviews
Ghost Worldnew
This Hungarian film, the most existential of holocaust films, is artistic without cheap or superfluous effects, making it almost mystically translucent.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
01-04-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Fateless, Lajos Koltai
Catch Them If You Cannew
Steven Spielberg's dour tale of assassination gets lost in a morass of moral ambivalence.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
12-21-2005 |
Reviews
Underground Movie Is No. 1 on Critic's Top 10 Listnew
Ken Jacobs' Star Spangled to Death, a vast, ironic pageant of 20th-century American history, is the ultimate underground movie, says J. Hoberman, who chooses it as the best film of 2004.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
12-29-2004 |
Reviews
New American Romanticism Wins Hearts of Alt Criticsnew
Before Sunset, directed by Richard Linklater, was the decisive winner of the 2004 poll of alternative press film critics, as the new American romanticism bucked electoral disaster.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
12-29-2004 |
Movies
Days of Wine and Neurosesnew
Payne's movies are distinguished by their indelible characters, and Sideways -- a cross between a three-legged sack race and a pedant's bacchanal -- is no exception, featuring two of the most fully realized comic creations in recent American movies.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
10-22-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Alexander Payne, Sideways
