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...Greater intellects than mine - say, the Village Voice's Jim Hoberman, an articulate champion of Van Sant's recent work - will make a case for this movie. But it's a mystery to me how following a young man as he mutters and meanders, or waiting for him to trudge up to and past the camera, advances movie art. This isn't the art of telling a story through picture; it's loitering with intent...
...Samuels wrote an O.K. 1983 book on the subject. There was a much better one, by Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum, which Samuels co-opts by having its authors carry his film's critical narrative. The rest is a brisk mix of clips and interviews with Barenholtz and other exhibitors, as well as five of the six films' directors. Midnight Movies is a pertinent, poignant reminder of an era when all sorts of weird wonders filled the screen, at all hours of the day and night - back when progressive directors went about breaking taboos, not surrendering to Hollywood's fondness...
Friday, March 11. John Hoberman talks about Testosterone Dreams: Rejuvenation, Aphrodisia, Doping. 3 p.m., Harvard Book Store. Free Admission...
...BRENT HOBERMAN, CEO of U.K.-based online travel group lastminute.com, admitting that profits for 2004 would be at the lower end of expectations
...alternate universes. ... Lines are delivered in unison, there are awkwardly failed attempts at overlapping dialogue, some actors appear to be reciting by rote or reading cue cards.... Left stranded in scenes that are grossly overextended, his performers strike fantastic poses, stare affectingly into space, or gaze casually off-camera. - Hoberman, "Bad Movies...