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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Oh yeah, one of the best Red Noirs. Howard Hughes puts his mark on post Schary RKO. (See An Army of Phantoms pp93-96 for the back story.) Nifty perfs by Robert Ryan, William Thalman & of course the great Thomas Gomez.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Is that "Noble" for nobility or noblesse oblige or just plain nob?

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

He's the King Midas of shitification

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just what did the young preacher see BJ and "the girl" throw off the Tallahatchie bridge?

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This stupifying bit of televised Dada (worthy of Ernie Kovacs) was the centerpiece of Joe Dante & Jon Davison's All Night Once in a Lifetime Atomic Movie Orgy (1969-71). See Across the Movi-Verse pp 5-8

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks for asking. My point was that Israel is an inherently divided society and if it weren't for unifying presence of the Palestinian (or Arab) enemy, Israeli Jews would be fighting with each other (as chronicled in the OT). Of course, peace w the Palestinians could only be a good thing.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/o... Stephens writes almost sensible analysis. Seems surprised to learn “ancient Israel’s political collapse was spawned by internal strife & a dozen civil wars." Guess he never read Kings or Chronicles. Were it not for the Palestinians, Israel would've fissured long ago.

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Opinion | What It Will Take for Israel to Overcome the Ghosts of Oct. 7 (Gift Article)

What it will take for Israel to overcome the ghosts of Oct. 7.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Footnote to "How Scotland Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It ". (Unlike Sundance AMPAS considers 46 minutes to be "feature length.") So alba gu bràth y'all!

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Scottish film could steal The Jazz Singer’s crown as ‘world’s first talkie’

Scots-written Till the Bells Ring premiered a year before the Hollywood film, which featured spoken words by Al Jolson

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Can someone be executed twice for the same crime? Wouldn't that constitute double jeopardy? (On another note: Why don't these killer states just use morphine or an overdose of heroin? Too nice?)

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Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after botched execution attempt, lawyers say

Lawyers seek preservation of evidence after prisoner received two doses of pentobarbital on 30 September

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A question which Amy Goodman (w good reason) doesn't ask. Does this admirable high school uprising serve to empower Marine Le Pen

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Anthony Kaufman @antkaufman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

NAZA Shocks the Conscience, the Limited Box Office, and the Oscar Race anthonykaufman.substack.com/p/naza-shock...

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NAZA Shocks the Conscience, the Limited Box Office, and the Oscar Race

And the dirty tricks already launching against it.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

jewishreviewofbooks.com/contemporary... "Since 10/7/23, the Israeli govt has blocked official inquiry into the massacre & its causes [b/c] the people in power are also the people responsible for the disaster. " Bibi is not just a war criminal but a kakistocratic bungler of Biblical proportions.

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Tragic Failure - Jewish Review of Books

With the Israeli Government blocking an official inquiry into October 7, the journalist Amos Harel has taken on the job himself.

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Jeff Boone @jeffreyboone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Re desk murderers: a good time to recommend Eyal Press’s excellent book Dirty Work, & his even more morally acute Beautiful Souls.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This shattering journalistic exposé of Israel's war on the people of Gaza is also an essay on AI dehumanization & total surveillance—illustrating Hannah Arendt’s oft misunderstood formulation “the banality of evil.”

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The actual witnesses who “see” w their computer screens are 24 IDF intelligence officers—i.e. “desk murderers.”

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc... More than a movie. In NAZA, like Shoah, to which it alludes & which its title (Israeli acronym-euphemism for collateral damage) near rhymes, u hear testimony & watch w your mind’s eye.

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NAZA film-makers say they spoke to more than 100 sources about Israeli actions in Gaza

Team behind documentary push back against IDF attempt to discredit its exposure of military systems

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Anything on Beck's grandpa, the madcap Flux artist Al Hansen?

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

mailchi.mp/431d9b1fa2c9... Out now

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

www.tabletmag.com/sections/art... Renewed attention to this undead creature inspired me to revisit my 2020 piece. I don't write for Tablet anymore but appreciate that they published it as written. (My new anthology Across the Movi-Verse has another Tablet piece on another vampire, Nosferatu).

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My Roy Cohn, and Ours - Arts & Letters - Tablet Magazine

Two recent documentaries, one of them streaming tonight, try to unpack the McCarthyite Trump-whisperer—progenitor of the postmodern political world we n...

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

and who says Delphine Seyrig was no fun!

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is the raw racist KKK nativism that shut the Golden Door in 1924. Back then it was called the Yellow Peril.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Kinda like time travel virtual reality. Actually, I was inspired both by Paris which as you know is filled with historical placards and walking around Manhattan where buildings and whole blocks can disappear w/o a trace.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

www.nybooks.com/online/2026/... Amrum—a German movie about the end of WWII as experienced by a boy on the N Sea island for which the film ia titles—is both exotic & familiar. (Indeed, my own family also has WWII–era ties to Amrum & like the film, their story has elements of a German volksmärchen.)

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Ghosts of Amrum | J. Hoberman

The story of Amrum—a German movie about the last days and immediate aftermath of World War II as experienced by a twelve-year-old boy on the isolated

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

www.villagevoice.com/stars-hype-f... Walk down memory lane: 41+ years after piece appeared in print, the vestigial Voice puts it online (and dig the cover line-up complete w Warhol). Those were the days. Thanks Bob!

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Stars & Hype Forever: In 1985, Ronald Reagan’s Reelection Represented the “Triumph of the Irrational” - The Village Voice

J. Hoberman's 1985 Village Voice essay covered Ronald Reagan's propensity to comfort the rich and punch down on the needy.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Copies of my anthology Across the Movi-Verse will be available. It has an essay on the film: "New ideas typically arrive from the margins. Thus, postmodern cinema comes by way of Africa. Working out his particular destiny as an ethnographer in the colonies, Jean Rouch invented the French New Wave."

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/m... Rambunctious bad boy of the New Queer Cinema, Gregg Araki burst on the indie scene w his youth-centric sex romps. Now restored, Mysterious Skin (2005) elevated his game to a new level. Tender as it is, this visionary tale of child abuse still packs a wallop.

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‘Mysterious Skin’: One of the Great Movies of the Early 2000s (Gift Article)

Gregg Araki’s coming-of-age drama, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, tracks the story of two traumas with one source: a baseball coach.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I remember Best Video (no that was New Video) on University Place but not New Haven, although I'm of an age when these things are... elusive

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It's been shown numerous times (also streamed) in NYC but always in the context of a festival or retrospective (either HK films or Maggie Cheung). Although it's possible that one of the city's Chinatown cinemas (all long gone) opened it in the '90s, so far as I know, this is its 1st theatrical run.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/m... Less melodrama than meta-drama, the first movie to address the history of Chinese film — conflating the golden age of Shanghainese cinema (and Shanghai) w that of Hong Kong. Maggie Cheung proves herself a unique silent star — as contemporary as she is anachronistic.

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‘Center Stage’: A Star of Shanghai’s 1930s Heyday Is (Re)Born (Gift Article)

This 1991 film is at once a biopic devoted to the Chinese silent-film star, Ruan Lingyu, and a self-reflexive documentary starring Maggie Cheung.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/m... Dostoyevsky’s "White Nights" is a 1st-person case history of unrequited love. Visonti's daringly set-bound version transposes it from summer-solstice mid-19th C Petersburg to wintry mid-20th C Livorno—less adaptation than expression of his own unrealistic longing

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‘White Nights’: A Loner’s All-Consuming Crush (Gift Article)

Immaculately realized and restored, Luchino Visconti’s adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s short story about a chance encounter on a bridge arrives at Film Forum.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I should add that, among his many other accomplishments, Tony turned me on to Tsai's first feature Rebels of the Neon God when it appeared (in the Panorama) at the 1993 Berlin Film Festival. He was truly one of a kind.

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