J. Hoberman's Annual Best Films Lists
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As the other list isn't updated since 2012. I created this updated one (some missing films from old list were added too).
Notes:
- Lists since 1977
- In 1978, two lists were released (Narrative and Non-narrative ones). Both were added
- Golden Eighties aka Window Shopping, Chantal Akerman (1986) was named twice (1983 and 1992 lists). Actually, the first reference could be the film Les années 80 (1983), but I'm not sure.
- Allemagne 90 neuf zéro, Jean-Luc Godard (1991) was named twice (1992 and 1995 lists)
- Honorable mentions from multiple years weren't added
- Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel (2012) was named twice (2012 and 2013 lists)
- The Americans TV series was named twice (2014 and 2018 lists)
- #5. Mexico at Midnight: Film Noir From Mexican Cinema’s Golden Age (series at New York’s Museum of Modern Art) source: https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1533 (from 2015 list)
- #7. Ten documentary shorts, Vittorio De Seta: source: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2019/films/ten-documentary-shorts-by-vittorio-de-seta/ (from 2019 list)
- No list was released in 2020
Missing in IMDB:
#10. We Imitate; We Break-Up, Ericka Beckmann (1977) (from 1978 non-narrative list)
#7. Triscuits, Amy Sillman (2010) (from 2013 list) (https://vimeo.com/166613623)
#9. Continuous Variation, Manuel De Landa (2015) (from 2015 list)
#7. Aproposessexstreetmarket, Ernie Gehr (2018) (from 2021 list)
#7. Circling Essex Crossing, Ernie Gehr (2018) (from 2021 list)
#8. Paths of Fire II, Neelon Crawford (1976) (from 2021 list)
Not properly an entry:
#05. Game Six, 1986 World Series [TV sport] (from 1986 list)
#02. The Carl Stalling Project [sound recording] (from 1990 list)
#9. Panoramas of the Moving Image, Ernie Gehr (2005) (video installation) (from 2007 list)
#1. Werner Schroeter retrospective at MOMA (from 2012 list)
#4. Il Cinema Ritrovato XVI (annual festival in Bologna) (from 2012 list)
#4. Oskar Fischinger: Space Light Art, Whitney Museum exhibition (multimedia projections) (from 2012 list)
#10. Clint Eastwood on YouTube (from 2012 list)
#8. “Video” column, NYTimes, by Dave Kehr (from 2013 list)
#6. The Marx Brothers TV Collection [DVD box set] (from 2014 list)
#7. Die Farbe, Sigmar Polke (Film Installation) (from 2014 list)
#10. Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact at Museum of the Moving Image, New York (memorabilia exhibition) (from 2016 list)
#5. The Kavanaugh Hearing (from 2018 list)
#5. Jordan Belson exhibit at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (paintings exhibition) (from 2019 list)
#4. On the Royal Road: The Burgher King, Elfriede Jelinek (book) (from 2021 list)
Souces:
1977-2005: https://www.mistdriven.com/critics/hoberman.html
2006: https://www.villagevoice.com/2006/12/26/hobermans-top-10/
2007: https://www.villagevoice.com/2007/12/25/j-hobermans-top-10-films-of-2007/
2008: https://www.villagevoice.com/2008/12/31/j-hobermans-top-10-of-2008/
2009: https://www.villagevoice.com/2009/12/22/j-hobermans-favorite-films-of-2009/
2010: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/j-hobermans-top-10-movies-of-2010/Content?oid=2492695
2011-2021: https://www.yearendlists.com/list_authors/j-hoberman-e42284d6-b54b-4332-8742-e2f1f26f4273
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Eureka
1998, in 1 top list Check -
39 new
Tally Brown, New York
1979, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
1980, in 3 top lists Check -
70 new
The Atomic Cafe
1982, in 3 top lists Check -
79 new
Sans soleil
1983 — a.k.a. Sans Soleil, in 16 top lists Check -
82 new
Huie's Predigt
1981 — a.k.a. Huie's Sermon, in 0 top lists Check -
87 new
The Story of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz
1982, in 0 top lists Check -
93 new
Shoah
1985, in 18 top lists Check -
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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
1986, in 0 top lists Check -
100 new
Il bacio di Tosca
1984 — a.k.a. Tosca's Kiss, in 0 top lists Check -
101 new
Chambre 666
1982 — a.k.a. Room 666, in 0 top lists Check -
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France/tour/detour/deux/enfants
1977, in 1 top list Check -
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Sherman's March
1985, in 10 top lists Check -
116 new
Filming 'Othello'
1978, in 1 top list Check -
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Dal Polo all'Equatore
1987 — a.k.a. From the Pole to the Equator, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Thin Blue Line
1988, in 12 top lists Check -
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Cannibal Tours
1988, in 0 top lists Check -
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Roger & Me
1989, in 12 top lists Check -
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Let's Get Lost
1988, in 0 top lists Check -
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Siddeshwari
1990, in 2 top lists Check -
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Undergångens arkitektur
1989 — a.k.a. The Architecture of Doom, in 1 top list Check -
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Paris Is Burning
1990, in 12 top lists Check -
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Rock Hudson's Home Movies
1992, in 0 top lists Check -
193 new
Hoop Dreams
1994, in 15 top lists Check -
200 new
Lektionen in Finsternis
1992 — a.k.a. Lessons of Darkness, in 6 top lists Check -
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Crumb
1994, in 12 top lists Check -
227 new
Cinéma, de notre temps: Chantal Akerman par...
1997, in 0 top lists Check -
249 new
Shivrei T'munot Yerushalayim
1998 — a.k.a. Fragments: Jerusalem, in 0 top lists Check -
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Sobibór, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures
2001 — a.k.a. Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m., in 3 top lists Check -
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Decasia
2002, in 4 top lists Check -
282 new
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of...
2003 — a.k.a. The Fog of War, in 6 top lists Check -
302 new
Grizzly Man
2005, in 9 top lists Check -
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When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
2006, in 6 top lists Check -
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13 Lakes
2004, in 3 top lists Check -
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Ten Skies
2004, in 1 top list Check -
332 new
L'avocat de la terreur
2007 — a.k.a. Terror's Advocate, in 0 top lists Check -
339 new
Vals Im Bashir
2008 — a.k.a. Waltz with Bashir, in 11 top lists Check -
351 new
Les plages d'Agnès
2008 — a.k.a. The Beaches of Agnès, in 6 top lists Check -
362 new
L'enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot
2009 — a.k.a. Inferno, in 1 top list Check -
363 new
Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu
2010 — a.k.a. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Clock
2010, in 3 top lists Check -
383 new
Leviathan
2012, in 5 top lists Check -
392 new
Portrait of Jason
1967, in 11 top lists Check -
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People's Park
2012, in 0 top lists Check -
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Manakamana
2013, in 1 top list Check -
408 new
No Home Movie
2015, in 4 top lists Check -
422 new
O.J.: Made in America
2016, in 7 top lists Check -
427 new
Austerlitz
2016, in 0 top lists Check -
433 new
The Vietnam War
2017, in 2 top lists Check -
453 new
Lu tempu di li pisci spata
1955 — a.k.a. The Age of Swordfish, in 0 top lists Check
Last updated on Jan 7, 2022; source