Opening last night and continuing through April 3rd, BAMcinematek will use their screens to channel the mind of luminary film critic
J. Hoberman, in their
series celebrating his 30 years at
The Village Voice. "I criticize people for thirty years and then everyone's so nice to me," said Hoberman in his remarks for the opening pick, David Lynch's
Eraserhead. Hoberman has spent more than half his life championing the art and artists he knows to be true in print at the
Voice, Film Comment and in his many books. Hoberman came of age within the counter-culture, creating his own coverage beat out of the masses of experimental, cult and foreign movies that were barely played, let alone reviewed, when he started writing.
Tonight is
David Cronenberg's
Naked Lunch plus the 48-minute sci-fi/satire/abstract sensationalist
Tribulation 99 by
Craig Baldwin. To compliment Hoberman's 1979 guide to the new waves of the late-seventies avant-garde, "
No Wavelength: The Para-Punk Underground," March 17th & 18th brings three films featuring
Lydia Lunch:
James Nare's
Rome '78,
She Had Her Gun Already by
Vivienne Dick and
Black Box by
Beth B and Scott B. Hoberman has always had his favorites, directors whose work he revists again and again in his writing -- one of these is
Ernie Gehr, who will join Hoberman for a Q & A after a program devoted to Gehr's work on March 24th. Brooklynites who didn't go to SXSW now have something to gloat about: the next nights are devoted to rarely-screened and essential features by
Chantal Ackerman, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Allan Arkush, John Carptenter, Ritwik Ghatak and
Andrei Tarkovsky.
Gothamist has a nice interview with Hoberman
here.
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