Across the Movi-verse: Writing on Film, 2011–2021 by J. Hoberman

A brand-new anthology of J. Hoberman's previously uncollected essays, tributes, reviews, and ruminations from his post-Village Voice career. Hoberman published his first piece in the Voice in February 1973 and his last in January 2012. Covering contributions from a range of publications (beginning with "After My De-Voice"), these are the work of a recovering film critic, post-2011 and post-Voice, without the burden and benefit of a weekly gig or a journalistic peg. Hoberman considers the Spaghetti Western, "Pop Before Pop: Welles, Sirk, and Hitchcock," the films of the Obama era, the film maudit, the U.S. distribution history of Fassbinder, and Triumph of the Will; as well as reviews of films by Chantal Akerman, Mike Kuchar, Jean Rouch, Steve McQueen, Sergei Loznitsa, and Todd Phillips; tributes to Manny Farber, Jean Luc-Godard, and Elliott Gould; and two pieces—”My Debt to Jonas Mekas” and “Why I cannot review Jonas Mekas's Conversations with Filmmakers”—examining his conflicting feelings about a singular figure in cinema history and the editor who published his first pieces for the Voice.