Movies: J. Hoberman

  • 2020
    'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

    'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War (2020)

    'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

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    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....

    'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
  • 2017
    Waiting for Ishtar

    Waiting for Ishtar (2017)

    Waiting for Ishtar

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    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)....

    Waiting for Ishtar
  • 2003
    Busby Berkeley: Going Through the Roof

    Busby Berkeley: Going Through the Roof (2003)

    Busby Berkeley: Going Through the Roof

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    Documentary profile of legendary dance choreographer Busby Berkeley....

    Busby Berkeley: Going Through the Roof
  • 1998
    Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream

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

    Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream

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    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 illus...

    Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream
  • 1977
    Mission to Mongo

    Mission to Mongo (1977)

    Mission to Mongo

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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...

    Mission to Mongo