J. Hoberman
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‘The Wounded Man’: Dark Night, Lost Soul
In its unflinching depiction of a French teenager’s violent gay awakening, this 1983 film is among Patrice Chéreau’s most confrontational works.
‘Millennium Mambo’: A Lush, Mysterious Tale From Taipei
A 4K restoration of Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s thrumming, visually bold movie about a self-destructive club girl retains its capital-L look.
Julia Reichert, Documentarian of the Working Class, Dies at 76
She took home, to Ohio, a 2019 Oscar for “American Factory,” and in a long career teaching and making films, she paid special attention to...
In Andy Warhol’s ‘My Hustler,’ Love Is for Sale
The artist’s scurrilously satirical treatment of male prostitution proved an underground hit after it premiered in 1966.
‘The Runner’ Is a Gem of the Iranian New Wave
Amir Naderi’s scrappy, intimate film, which follows an 11-year-old garbage scavenger in Iran, is getting a second viewing at Film Forum in Manhattan.
‘The 400 Blows,’ a Directing Debut That Still Astonishes
In 1959, François Truffaut premiered his first film, about a Parisian boy playing hooky, and moviemaking hasn’t been the same since.
‘Daisies’: Two Wild and Crazy Gals
The Czechoslovak New Wave film “Daisies” features an insolent pair of young girls determined to be as “spoiled” as the world.
An Avant-Garde Film That Went for Laughs Instead of Scandal
Nothing controversial: Adolfas Mekas’s “Hallelujah the Hills,” from 1963, is romantic slapstick, with two guys competing for the same young woman.
A Feminist, Neorealist, Communist Film, and a Plain Great Movie
“One Way or Another,” from 1974, is a class-conscious love story involving a macho worker and a well-to-do schoolteacher in Cuba.
Still Charming at 50: Luis Buñuel’s Greatest Hit
“The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeois” is a comedy of frustrations in which a sextet of super-civilized haute bourgeois repeatedly attempt and fail to sit...