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Craig Hubert

Craig Hubert is a former editor at Artinfo.com and film critic for Modern Painters magazine. He has written for publications such as T: The New York Times Style Magazine, The Atlantic, Interview Magazine, and others. He lives in New York City.

Posted inFilm

A Filmmaker Captures the Seduction of Prosperity and Its False Promises

by Craig Hubert April 25, 2019

Mambéty made films that are political only on a broad, symbolic level, and their subject is the soul of a people who have been tricked into a troubling fate.

Posted inFilm

Films on the Fringes of the Japanese New Wave

by Craig Hubert April 4, 2019

A series at the Japan Society opening on April 5 further complicates the definition of the Japanese New Wave cinema, whose parameters are typically difficult to define.

Posted inBooks

César Aira’s Memoir Responds to an Existentialist Crisis

by Craig Hubert March 11, 2019March 11, 2019

Whatever might be truth or fiction in Birthday is used in service of the book’s main question: What has been the purpose of the author’s life?

Posted inNews

Jonas Mekas, a Guiding Spirit of Indie Cinema, Dies at 96

by Craig Hubert January 24, 2019

Simple descriptors can’t do justice to his monumental life.

Posted inFilm

Pasolini’s Felt Duty to be Scandalous

by Craig Hubert January 9, 2019

The first of a three-part retrospective of Pasolini’s films began at Metrograph, starting at the end of Pasolini’s career with the films that are among his most conflicted, comic, and punishing.

Posted inFilm

In Vox Lux, Pop Music Is a Shield Against Contemporary Horrors

by Craig Hubert December 7, 2018December 6, 2018

Natalie Portman stars as a pop star who survived a school shooting in director Brady Corbet’s new film about the desensitizing powers of idol worship.

Posted inArt

48 Years In the Making, Orson Welles’s Last Film Is Finally Released

by Craig Hubert September 25, 2018September 25, 2018

The Other Side of the Wind, long considered one of the most famous films never released, arrives on Netflix this November.

Posted inArt

Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto Reflects on His Life, Work, and Battle with Cancer

by Craig Hubert July 16, 2018July 16, 2018

In light of a new documentary on the composer, Sakamoto shares what compels him to write music and the influence of film on his work.

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A Documentary on Basquiat’s Teen Years Tracks a Star’s Early Ascent

by Craig Hubert May 11, 2018August 9, 2022

Sara Driver’s new documentary Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat wants to bring the young art star back down to earth, but often can’t help positioning hovering him above.

Still from John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection (all images courtesy Oscilloscope Laboratories)
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A Documentary Tracks the Competitive Theatrics of John McEnroe

by Craig Hubert April 26, 2018April 26, 2018

A new documentary made up solely of footage of the tennis star shot in 1984 is a meditation on the psycho-dramatics of sports and a pure celebration of the body in motion.

Ingmar Bergman (courtesy Film Forum)
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48 Ingmar Bergman Films Ranked

by Craig Hubert February 7, 2018February 8, 2018

Film Forum’s retrospective marking the centennial of the Swedish auteur’s birth includes 48 of his films, which we’ve dutifully ranked from best to worst.

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Antonioni’s Rarely Seen Documentary on China During the Cultural Revolution

by Craig Hubert January 2, 2018January 2, 2018

Antonioni’s experimental travelogue of the early days of the Cultural Revolution is a complex, sometimes confusing, and priceless document of a transformative moment in Chinese history.

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