J. Hoberman

Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (1998)

This film discusses the effect on how major American films in Hollywood were influenced by the Eastern European Jewish culture that most of the major movie moguls who controlled the studios shared. Through clips of various films, the filmmakers illustrate the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Simcha Jacobovici  •  Stuart Samuels
CAST:  R. H. Thomson  •  Neal Gabler  •  J. Hoberman  •  Arthur Tracy

This film discusses the effect on how major American films in Hollywood were influenced by the Eastern European Jewish culture that most of the major movie moguls who controlled the studios shared. Through clips of various films, the filmmakers illustrate the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Simcha Jacobovici  •  Stuart Samuels
CAST:  R. H. Thomson  •  Neal Gabler  •  J. Hoberman  •  Arthur Tracy

Busby Berkeley: Going Through the Roof (2003)

Documentary profile of legendary dance choreographer Busby Berkeley.  (more)

DIRECTION:  David M. Thompson
CAST:  Busby Berkeley  •  Kenneth Anger  •  Richard Barrios  •  Dorothy Coonan Wellman

Documentary profile of legendary dance choreographer Busby Berkeley.  (more)

DIRECTION:  David M. Thompson
CAST:  Busby Berkeley  •  Kenneth Anger  •  Richard Barrios  •  Dorothy Coonan Wellman

Mission to Mongo (1977)

First, I wanted to make a kind of reflexively impoverished Busby Berkeley extravaganza. Second, I was interested in juxtaposing two cultural artifacts–which could be schematized as East/West, socialism/capitalism, propaganda/entertainment, as well as ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  J. Hoberman
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First, I wanted to make a kind of reflexively impoverished Busby Berkeley extravaganza. Second, I was interested in juxtaposing two cultural artifacts–which could be schematized as East/West, socialism/capitalism, propaganda/entertainment, as well as ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  J. Hoberman
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'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War (2020)

Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler on which "Fail-Safe" is based, along with the pervasiveness of nuclear paranoia in films of the sixties.  (more)

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CAST:  J. Hoberman  •  Henry Fonda  •  Frieda Altman  •  Nancy Berg

Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler on which "Fail-Safe" is based, along with the pervasiveness of nuclear paranoia in films of the sixties.  (more)

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CAST:  J. Hoberman  •  Henry Fonda  •  Frieda Altman  •  Nancy Berg

Waiting for Ishtar (2017)

A conversation about guilty pleasures turns into one man's quest to find others on a library waiting list, while simultaneously examining the fate of the famous Hollywood bomb Ishtar (1987).  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jonathan Crombie  •  John Mitchell
CAST:  John Mitchell  •  Jonathan Crombie  •  George Anthony  •  Andy Barrie

A conversation about guilty pleasures turns into one man's quest to find others on a library waiting list, while simultaneously examining the fate of the famous Hollywood bomb Ishtar (1987).  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jonathan Crombie  •  John Mitchell
CAST:  John Mitchell  •  Jonathan Crombie  •  George Anthony  •  Andy Barrie