Across the Movi-verse:

Writing on Film, 2011–2021

by J. Hoberman

 

Published by Film Desk Books

Perfect-bound softcover

First printing of 1,500 copies

369 pages

8x6 inches

List price: $25

ISBN: 979-8-9864463-9-4

 

Release Date: August 25, 2026

 

 

"유통기간이 없는 글을 쓰는 몇안되는 영화 비평가" -테드 루스, 뉴욕타임스-

"아마도 지난 30년간 가장 독보적으로 사회적 의식의 흐름을 보여준 영화학자" -아담 네이만, 시네아스트-

"J. 호버만이 '빌리지 보이스'에서 활동했던 시기는 한마디로 미 영화 평론가에 의한 가장 위대한 시기 중 하나였으며,

한 세대의 작가들에게 지대한 영향을 미쳤다." -마이클 조슈아 로윈, 북포럼-

 

PREORDER—COMING IN AUGUST

 

“There is, or once was, a movie universe—a quasi-autonomous realm of plotlines and personalities, coincidences and crossreferences, quasars and black holes. Not just stargazers but anyone who frequented the world’s movie houses lived there, at least part of the time...”"

 

A brand-new anthology of J. Hoberman's previously uncollected essays, tributes, reviews and ruminations from his post-Village Voice career. Hoberman published his first piece in the Voice in February 1973 and his last in January 2012. Covering contributions from a range of publications (beginning with "After My De-Voice"), these are the work of a recovering film critic, post 2011 and post Voice, without the burden and benefit of a weekly gig or a journalistic peg.

 

Hoberman considers the Spaghetti Western, "Pop Before Pop: Welles, Sirk and Hitchcock," the films of the Obama era, the film maudit, the U.S. distribution history of Fassbinder, and Triumph of the Will, as well as reviews of films by Chantal Akerman, Mike Kuchar, Jean Rouch, Steve McQueen, Sergei Loznitsa and Todd Phillips, tributes to Manny Farber, Jean Luc-Godard, and Elliott Gould, and two pieces—”My Debt to Jonas Mekas” and “Why I cannot review Jonas Mekas's Conversations with Filmmakers”—examining his conflicting feelings about a singular figure in cinema history as well as the editor who published his first pieces for the Voice.

 

“One of the few film writers whose work has no expiration date.”—Ted Loos, New York Times

“Perhaps the preeminent stream-of-social-consciousness film scholar of the past thirty years.”—Adam Nayman, Cineaste

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