J. Hoberman

Jim Hoberman (born 1948), also known as J. Hoberman is a prominent American film critic. He's currently the senior film critic for "The Village Voice", a post he has held since 1988.

Education

After receiving an M.A. in Film Studies from Columbia University he began working for the "Voice" as third-stringer under Andrew Sarris specializing in experimental film. His first film review was in 1977 for David Lynch's Eraserhead, an avant-garde midnight movie.

Present career

He's presently a professor of film studies at Cooper Union in New York, and he's lectured on Communism in Film at Harvard University. He's a notable contributor to Film Comment magazine, where he serves as one of the editors. Hoberman has published several books, including a collaboration with "Chicago Reader" film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, entitled "Midnight Movies", written in 1983.

Partial bibliography

As author

*"The Magic Hour"
*"The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties"
*"Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds"
*"Vulgar Modernism: Writing on Film and Other Media"
*"Home Made Movies: Twenty Years of American 8Mm & Super-8 Films"
*"42nd Street" (BFI Film Classics)
*"Dennis Hopper: From Method to Madness"
*"The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism"

As co-author

*"Midnight Movies" (with Jonathan Rosenbaum)

External links

* [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/01/18/hoberman.html "Senses of Cinema" interview]
* [http://gothamist.com/2008/03/05/j_hoberman_film.php "Gothamist" interview]
* [http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~ejohnson/critics/hoberman.html J. Hoberman's Top Ten Lists, 1977-2005]