Episode #42 - J. Hoberman (Poor Little Rich Girl)

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"I was encouraged to be as opinionated and obscure as I wanted."

While his origins as a cinephile are based largely in his interest in the avant-garde, J. Hoberman has become one of the most influential critics through his examinations of Hollywood blockbusters, world cinema, the outer limits of experimental works, and most importantly, film history. In his appearance on the podcast, Hoberman talks to Peter about his adventures as a kid traversing New York City's film culture, his movement through the the city's underground scene, and eventually to his position at The Village Voice and creating a voice that often examined the relationship between politics and cinema. Finally, the two discuss Poor Little Rich Girl, Andy Warhol's out-of-focus and out of this world portraiture of Edie Sedgwick, which Hoberman describes as a work of "pure cinema."

0:00-1:38 Opening 

2:03-10:18 Establishing Shots - 2 Years of Cinephiliacs / Donations and Reviews
11:02-1:09:29 Deep Focus - J. Hoberman

1:12:19-1:28:52 Double Exposure - Poor Little Rich Girl (Andy Warhol)

1:28:57-1:31:32 Close / Outtake

Read J. Hoberman on his website, the New York Times, Artforum, Tablet, and The New York Review of Books. Purchase Hoberman's dozen books on Amazon. 
Watch Poor Little Rich Girl.

Notes and Links from the Conversation

-Listen to old episodes of the podcast: A.O. Scott, Gina Telaroli, Robert Greene, Kent Jones, Dana Stevens, Nellie Killian, Philip Lopate, Michael Koresky and more.
-Sarris's The American Cinema
-Sarris's "Films in Focus" column
-Hoberman's book on Jack Smith and Flaming Creatures
-Ken Jacobs at SUNY Binghamton
-Collective For Living Cinema
-An article on "Walter Disney" for High Times
-Nick Pinkerton on Tom Allen
-Allen on Halloween
-Hoberman's first voice review, Eraserhead
-Kracauer's From Caligari To Hitler
-The Dream Life, An Army of Phantoms
-"Nashville Contra Jaws: Or 'The Imagination of Disaster' Revisited"
-Film After Film
-Hoberman on James Agee
-Sally Potter's The Man Who Cried
-On New York and Manhattan
-On Newlyweeds
-On Schindler's List and Lincoln
-Sam Adams on Hoberman and The Coens
-Labuza on Land Passion War of the Dead Christ Worlds
-Simon Abrams reviews White House Butler Down
-Hoberman and Ken Jacobs on their mashups 
-Hoberman on Warhol and screen tests
-Warhol's Vinyl

Theme Music: “Forward” by Northbound

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