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J Hoberman

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Occasional film critic, Columbia adjunct, old VV staff writer 📚 Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism, 3 books on Hollywood & the Cold War 🔜Everything is Now: NYC 60s Avantgarde

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · Mar 21

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Coming, May 27

Everything Is Now

Like Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s was a cauldron of avant-garde ferment and artistic innovation. Boundaries were transgressed and new forms created. Drawing on interviews, memoirs, a...

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 8h

My analysis fwiw: Hamas played Trump w promises he'd be very Nobel on TV freeing the hostages. Bibi has to keep his hawks in line until the big pay-off: Trump OKs annexation of the West Bank apartheid state while Gaza becomes a slave labor emirate-financed protectorate cum Kushner vacay fantasyland

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 10h

Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for what exactly? Renaming DoD to "Department of War?" Murdering civilians in Venezuela? Sicing the military on American cities? Destroying USAID and dooming countless children to death? Pardoning war criminals? Should I go on?

Chris Cillizza @chriscillizza.bsky.social · 14h

What if...Donald Trump actually deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 12h

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What to make of this early Bachrach, a hit for erstwhile jazz singer Gene McDaniels in late 1961? Should it be bracketed w Leslie Gore's drama queen classic "It's My Party (And I'll Cry if I Want To)" released in early 63?

Tower Of Strength

YouTube video by Gene McDaniels - Topic

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 17h

PS Krasnahorkai's American publisher (unnamed in the NYT piece on his Nobel prize) is New Directions--think about it.

J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 18h

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Éljen Krasnahorkai!

Rain of Terror

The two manifestations of an absurdist Hungarian classic – J. Hoberman

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 22h

Ken's last Eternalism

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 22h

And I had no idea that he used Vulgar Modernism as a text. Thanks for letting me know!

J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 1d

Alexander Granach (original Nosferatu) and Dwight Frye (orig Dracula) are incredibly creepy, fly-eaters both.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 1d

"A dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield"--wow!

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 1d

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Tell me about it! Grade inflation at Harvard is ridiculous. Give an undergrad a generous A- & watch an incredulous tantrum. That everyone feels entitled to an A in every course is an insult not only to the profs but the genuinely great students. I could go on...

Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 2d

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 2d

Just saying: My widowed grandmother Sarah Hoberman (1890-1974) was the smoked fish dueña de la bodega of Nagle Avenue although I believe that her store, which stocked pre WW2 canned goods, made less money than the neighborhood poker game she ran out of her Thayer Street apartment around the corner.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 2d

That's me, July 1969, in Colorado where Ken somewhat improbably was teaching at the Aspen School of the Arts & I even less probably was his feckless 20-year-old assistant. I learned how to thread a Kalart Victor (& outside of class dropped acid & had the revelation that Everything is Now.)
Thx Rob!

R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social · 2d

😎 @jhoberman.bsky.social pic by Ken Jacobs

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 2d

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The ultimate underground movie--a lyrical junkyard allegory annotated w chunks of mainly ’30s found footage. “A documentary showcase for the underdog’s spontaneous, uncontrolled fantasy” (Parker Tyler), desperately, despairingly beautiful, never more relevant.

danielgorman20 @danielgorman20.bsky.social · 2d

Star Spangled to Death (2004; Ken Jacobs)

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 3d

Ken Jacobs (1933-2025)

A great artist, a wonderful teacher, & speaking personally, a close friend for over 50 years. Linking to a piece I wrote to mark his 80th birthday.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 5d

And so it begins. The next stage in our slo-mo Reichstag fire.

Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 5d

“The Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will,” Pritzker said in a statement. “It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.”

Trump to federalize Illinois National Guard, Pritzker says

“This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum," Pritzker said.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 5d

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Paris Calligrammes review

NO REGRETS

J. Hoberman on Ulrike Ottinger’s Paris Calligrammes

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 6d

In this week's special episode of #LARBRadioHour, Kate Wolf speaks to J. Hoberman about his latest book, "Everything is Now." https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/j-hobermans-everything-is-now-primal-happenings-radical-music-underground-movies-and-the-1960s-new-york-avant-garde/

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 6d

And the Zombie's promo ("Be on time") is a. gem

J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 11d

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Voice of sanity

What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 12d

EC at its best!

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 12d

www.milibrary.org/events/23191

Thursday, Oct 2 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
57 Post Street
San Francisco, CA 94104

Event - Everything is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde with J. Hoberman and Steve Seid

Join J. Hoberman in conversation with media curator Steve Seid on his Hoberman's book, Everything is Now, a groundbreaking cultural history of 1960s New York, from the legendary writer on art and film

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 13d

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Crashing into the zeitgeist against who-knows-what headwinds, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is a kick-ass, madcap, antifascist action flick—imagine Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames on big-budget steroids, served over ICE... Not only tumultuous but funny.

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 17d

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Doomshow (1963) -Ray Wisniewski
Little Stabs at Happiness (1959-63) w Jack Smith -Ken Jacobs
New York Eye and Ear Control (1964) -Michael Snow
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol (1964) -Jonas Mekas

Wednesday, Oct 1, 2025 7 PM BAMPFA
2155 Center Street Berkeley, CA

Everything Is Now: J. Hoberman in Person

BAMPFA welcomes J. Hoberman to discuss his book Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop. He will also present a program of films that is re...

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 17d

www.milibrary.org/events/23191

Thursday, Oct 2 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
57 Post Street San Francisco, CA 94104

Event - Everything is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde with J. Hoberman and Steve Seid

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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 18d

Working my way through the pile #3: Surprised this 1949 Hal Wallis production isn't better known. A noir "Woman's Film" (from a novel by June Truesdell) cum pop psychology drama (Spellbound et al), directed by perennially underrated Wm Dieterle, it asserts a rape victim's right to self defense.

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