Hoberman & Rosenbaum - "Midnight Movies"

omg

why did he get fired? b/c he is 'old guard'?

I was always surprised (happy, but surprised) that he somehow dodged the Christgau/Eddy/Hentoff/etc. layoffs.

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why did he get fired? b/c he is 'old guard'?

― gnome rocognise gnome (remy bean), Wednesday, January 4, 2012 7:46 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

prob cuz he was making too much money

:(

http://books.google.de/books?id=yHcIp0sa6MkC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false

"Not exactly trekking to the one-room schoolhouse six miles across the tundra but a schlep nonetheless for the Teenage Me to find the one newsstand in Flushing (and later, Binghamton, New York) that carried the Village Voice."

via http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-voice-lays-off-j-hoberman

bcz people like me (but not me) will write Voice reviews for $50 a pop, and bcz most young people only look at Metacritic/RT scores for films, if that.

xxxxp

people like me (but not me) will write Voice reviews for $50 a pop

Umm...

Hoberman's dismissal comes as I'm in the midst of reading the Paul Nelson biography. To indulge in a little gratuitous nostalgia, it always resonates with me when the world I'd constructed for myself back in university--all the music and film critics who had such an influence on me--gets chipped at a little more.

ummm wha?

no offense to maura or other ilxors who pop up there on occasion but i can't imagine i'll ever have reason to look at the voice again

― balls, Wednesday, January 4, 2012 11:32 PM (Yesterday)

titty pics of juggalettes aren't free, something had to give

as Kenny commenters mention, the final insult is the elevation of that dingaling Karina Longworth.

http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2012/01/a-j-hoberman-top-ten.html

Par for course

Das Jackass

http://www.indiewire.com/article/post-voice-j-hoberman-lands-gig-at-blounin-artinfo-will-attend-sxsw

Currently enjoying Hoberman's new book, Make My Day, the third installment in the line of The Dream Life and Army of Phantoms. This one covers the years 1975-1988. The first chapter contrasts Nashville with Jaws, with the author delivering the line, "Nashville was supple while Jaws was rigid, but Nashville was superficial while Jaws ran deep."

Later Hoberman rips into Reagan-era Hollywood product, bringing back the horrors and dipshit fraudulence of that decade all too vividly. He regularly refers to the films Reagan personally screened in the White House, so it's a bit like "Reagan at the Movies."