J. Hoberman Movies

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...

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...

Documentary profile of legendary dance choreographer Busby Berkeley.

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...

First, I wanted to make a kind of reflexively impoverished Busby Berkeley extravaganza. Second, I was interested in juxtaposing two cultural...