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Reel Talks with J. Hoberman

June 9, 2025, 12:30pm–1:30pm

Talks on movies, the culture of cinema, and filmmaking.

J. Hoberman, Duck Soup

Hosted by Scott Adlerberg, film connoisseur

J. Hoberman is the senior film critic for the Village Voice, where he has worked for more than thirty years. He is the author of Bridge of Light, The Magic Hour, The Red Atlantis, Vulgar Modernism, and The Dream Life (The New Press) and the co-author, with Jonathan Rosenbaum, of Midnight Movies. He has written for Artforum, the London Review of Books, The Nation, the New York Review of Books, and The New York Times, among other publications, and has taught cinema history at Cooper Union since 1990. He lives in New York.

Scott Adlerberg is the author of the novels Spiders and Flies, Jungle Horses, Graveyard Love, Jack Waters, and The Screaming Child. He has written many short stories and contributes pieces regularly to sites such as CrimeReads, Mystery Tribune, and Criminal Element.  Every summer, he hosts the Reel Talks film commentary series in Bryant Park in Manhattan.  He was born in New York City and lives in Brooklyn.