J. Hoberman Trailers
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse Trailer'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War TrailerWaiting for Ishtar Trailer
Most Popular J. Hoberman Trailers
Total trailers found: 10
Waiting for Ishtar Trailer (2017)
14 December 2017
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).
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War Trailer (2020)
28 January 2020
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.
Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream Trailer (1998)
22 March 1998
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.
Mission to Mongo Trailer (1977)
01 January 1977
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 image/sound–and see how they reverberated.
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream Trailer (2006)
20 June 2006
From 1970-1977, six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way we make and watch films.
Customs and Immigration Trailer (1971)
01 January 1971
A sci-fi chapter thematically akin to FORBIDDEN PLANET, CUSTOMS & IMMIGRATION (a. k. a ANOTHER WORLD) is an angst-ridden as PANIC IN THE YEAR ZERO, as alienated as CREATION OF THE HUMANOIDS, as tacky as ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTER, as turgidly poetic as THE NEXT VOICE YOU HEAR & as baroquely conceptual as RED PLANET MARS.
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse Trailer (2025)
21 February 2025
Explores the life and career of cartoonist Art Spiegelman including the creation and ground-breaking impact of his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel MAUS.
Busby Berkeley: Going Through the Roof Trailer (2003)
28 March 2003
Documentary profile of legendary dance choreographer Busby Berkeley.
El Topo on Ice Trailer (2025)
22 June 2025
"See the ‘60s end with a bang and a whimper. Cosmic journeys pass in what might be a single violent night.
Broken Honeymoon #3 Trailer (1978)
08 October 1978
A structural work in which Frankenstein attempts to conquer the universe.
