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.
Feb 12, 2025 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman
Radu Jude’s Wild and Caustic Films Radu Jude’s Wild and Caustic Films
His latest, Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World, is a a digressive and transgressive movie of ideas about the social media age.
Mar 25, 2024 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman
Steve McQueen and Jonathan Glazer Confront the Holocaust Steve McQueen and Jonathan Glazer Confront the Holocaust
In Zones of Interest and Occupied City, the two filmmakers attempt to depict the ordinary fascism and everyday violence of World War II.
Dec 4, 2023 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman
Wang Bing, the World’s Hardest-Working Director Wang Bing, the World’s Hardest-Working Director
In his new film, Youth (Spring), the prolific director examines how the People’s Republic became the workshop for much of the world.
Nov 9, 2023 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman
The Swiss Village That Made Kropotkin an Anarchist The Swiss Village That Made Kropotkin an Anarchist
Cyril Schäublin’s Unrest may be the most orderly movie about anarchists ever made.
Jun 14, 2023 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman
Jerzy Skolimowski’s Wild and Kinetic EO Jerzy Skolimowski’s Wild and Kinetic EO
If Au Hasard Balthazar is austere and precise, EO is excessive and elusive.
Dec 28, 2022 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman
Godard Was Cinema Godard Was Cinema
Was the French filmmaker the single most important individual in the history of cinema?
Sep 16, 2022 / J. Hoberman
Why Keep Politics Out of the Oscars? Why Keep Politics Out of the Oscars?
The Academy might like to imagine that their star event is just fun and games, but the fact is the Oscars are always political. So why not have included Volodymyr Zelensky?
Mar 30, 2022 / J. Hoberman
The Surprising History of the Comic Book The Surprising History of the Comic Book
Since their initial popularity during World War II, comic books have always been a medium for American counterculture and for nativism and empire.
Jan 25, 2022 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman
Mike Gold, Avant-Garde Bard of Proletarian New York Mike Gold, Avant-Garde Bard of Proletarian New York
A new biography charts Gold's many lives—as a novelist and journalist, as a working-class militant, and as a forerunner to the Beats.
May 12, 2021 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman