J. Hoberman
“People have been saying for years that Taylor Mead will someday be discovered by the commercial theatre,” Sally Kempton wrote in a 1967 Village Voice profile. “This has never happened, at least not so far, and perhaps he will go on for the rest of his life...
Life is a cabaret, old sport, or maybe halftime at the Super Bowl in Baz Luhrmann’s overhyped and overheated 3-D adaptation of “The Great Gatsby” — the fifth time Hollywood has taken on the 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel that many consider the...
A youthful movie in more ways than one, Olivier Assayas’s “Something in the Air” evokes an irretrievable past even as it manages to embody the total excitement of a particular historical moment and even, self-reflexively, the trajectory of the French...
The showiest member of the new Mexican cinema, Carlos Reygadas, is part stuntmeister, part visionary — a wildly ambitious post-Warhol impresario who, often working without a screenplay, seeks out exalted landscapes and orchestrates conditions...
As befits a festival born from a star, the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival ends by celebrating one of co-founder Robert De Niro’s greatest performances, as the star-struck nerd Rupert Pupkin in “The King of Comedy,” the underrated 1983 Martin Scorsese...
Ransack the Tribeca Film Festival and ye shall find, in this case, three relatively unheralded items that are well worth seeing.Phil Morrison got a friendly reception back in 2005 for “Junebug,” an offbeat character-driven indie set the writer-director’s...
Has the Tribeca Film Festival improved? That’s what everyone says and, on the basis of the first weekend, the 2013 edition would certainly seem to have less flash and more substance.Since the new team arrived two years ago, Tribeca has benefited from...
Restored and back in distribution thanks to the tireless folks at Milestone Films, the 1967 documentary “Portrait of Jason” is, without a doubt, Shirley Clarke’s most radical, as well as her most personal, film.Clarke adapted her first feature, “The...
Fiction framed as documentary, “This Ain’t California,” Marten Persiel’s prize-winning hybrid — opening today at the Maysles Cinema in Harlem — “prints the legend” in telling the tale of Denis Paracek, a fabricated character in the real...
There’s no American director who inspires greater devotion than Terrence Malick, as I discovered when I wrote a less than favorable review of “The New World” (“all is diffuse, gauzy, insubstantial, underwhelming”). There is also very little middle...
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February 09, 2013