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J Hoberman

@jhoberman.bsky.social

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 · 7h ago

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.

‘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 · 2w ago

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

‘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 · 4w ago

apnews.com/article/rahm... No fan of Rahm g-d knows but whatever his motives I gotta like this. Can't wait to see him attacked as a self-hating antiSemite or Hamas stooge by the ADL, Bret Stephens, Ben-Kvir, Tablet & whatever Republican neo-crusaders are still out there.

Rahm Emanuel will assail Netanyahu in Tel Aviv speech as American politics shift against Israel

Potential Democratic presidential candidate Rahm Emanuel plans to deliver a strong message in Tel Aviv about U.S.-Israeli relations being "at a crossroads."

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J Hoberman@jhoberman.bsky.social · 4w ago

www.nytimes.com/athletic/742... The king Midas of shitification strikes again, transforming a team of plucky underdogs into a demoralized band of overentitled losers. (Meanwhile, the perpetually snakebit Mets rallied 2x in the 9th & 10th innings to beat the Atlanta bullies.)

USMNT’s World Cup ends vs. Belgium with sloppy last-16 showing; Balogun non-factor after controversy (Gift Article)

The U.S. bows out after being unable to overcome a sloppy performance. Our writers in Seattle analyze the defeat to the Belgians

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J Hoberman@jhoberman.bsky.social · last mo.

This published 8 years ago. The KKK helped shut the Golden Door in 1924. Trump's father was arrested at a violent Klan rally in Jamaica, Queens, Memorial Day 1927. I've always figured him supporting the Nazi-loving German American Bund--wish someone could prove it. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.

If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.

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J Hoberman@jhoberman.bsky.social · last mo.

Asked google a.i. for "Barn with cows. Farmer on stool milking tranquil cow marked USA. Farmer has Trump features. Standing behind holding out empty pails are two farm boys marked Don Jr and Eric. This should be drawn in the style of newspaper cartoonist Herblock"

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J Hoberman@jhoberman.bsky.social · last mo.

Good Trouble on Morningside Hgts: So is Columbia gonna acknowledge that prospective Congress-women Darializa Avila Chevalier & Claire Valdez were both associated w the university? DAC = grad student in sociology & CV = program asst in visual arts dept. (Also both were organizers w my old union UAW)

NY Times Pitchbot@nytpitchbot.bsky.social · last mo.

We wanted to understand why a Jewish candidate defeated another Jewish candidate in one of America's most Jewish congressional districts. So we talked to three Evangelical Christians at a gun show in northern Idaho.

J Hoberman@jhoberman.bsky.social · last mo.

Master of parapraxic disclosure Trump is chasing his shadow. Anyone not part of his cult can see that the "Radical Lunatic" defacing the national Reflecting Pool (the White House, the National Mall, the US Constitution), is Trump himself--right again.

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · last mo.

I recognize the bar is very high for saying this, but... this is the most absurd White House press release I've ever seen. All of those linked out words are to stories by major news outlets -- AP, NYT, PBS News, CNN -- debunking Trump's lies about vandals causing the Reflecting Pool mess he caused.