Most Popular
-
Kill Gus Boulis's Killer?
Paul Brandreth didn't want to murder anybody. Or did he?
-
City Hall Stinks
There's a war on Dinner Key, and Marc Sarnoff is a bomb-thrower.
-
Mayor of the Nude Beach
So he's naked and in his seventies. He's still the coolest guy you'll ever meet.
-
I Have HIV
But I'm not telling you, babe. Happy Valentine's Day!
-
Vamos a Cuba!
Join us as we try to hitch a ride to the island before the gold rush strikes.
-
City Hall Stinks (58)
There's a war on Dinner Key, and Marc Sarnoff is a bomb-thrower.
-
Sarnoff Turns His Back on Blacks (20)
Coconut Grove's other half feels left out.
-
Sarnoff Shmarnoff (14)
Commissioner Marc's claim to a famous bloodline just might be fiction.
-
Jumping the Snapper (5)
Brosia boards the Mediterranean bandwagon, with mixed results.
-
Cyclists Court Death Daily (55)
It's dangerous, but Miami is getting friendlier to bikes.
-
Reel Wrap
Our critics review a sampling from week one of the film fest.
-
Movie Magic City
The Miami International Film Festival may have finally arrived on Hollywood's radar.
-
Vlogged to Death
Status update: Romero and his zombies are back to attack the Facebook generation.
-
The Truth Won't Set You Free
Multiperspective, mega-annoying Vantage Point.
-
Reel Wrap Redux
Week two at the Miami International Film Festival.
-
Over The Weekend - Bikes, Blue Men, Teen Rock Idols and A Film Festival
08:57AM 03/10/08 -
The Little Film Festival That Could
08:04AM 03/10/08 -
DQ Trumps blissberry on the Beach
08:02AM 03/10/08 -
The Roots Rip Up Langerado--Then Drop New Video
11:42AM 03/10/08 -
Langerado Loves Ben Folds
09:23AM 03/10/08 -
G. Love and the Special Sauce Hit Langerado
08:55PM 03/09/08
What we are writing about
- Art Basel
- Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club
- Carnival Center
- Coconut Grove
- Coral Gables
- downtown Miami
- Fillmore Miami Beach
- Fort Lauderdale
- Francisco Goya
- Freedom Tower
- Hugo Chávez
- In the Continuum
- John Timoney
- Julia Tuttle Causeway
- Karen Kilimnik
- Marc Sarnoff
- Miami-Dade County Library
- Miami-Dade County...
- Miami Beach
- Miami local art
- Miami local music
- Miami local theater
- Museum of Contemporary...
- Patrick Williams
- sex offenders
- South Beach
- South Miami
- Studio A
- Wii
- Xbox
Recent Articles By J. Hoberman
-
California Burning
An epic gusher, There Will Be Blood strikes oil, and then some.
-
Best Movies of 2007
What? No Simpsons? Add your favorite picks to our comments.
-
Harlem Knight
Ridley Scott's portrait of a Seventies dope CEO may not be epic, but it's still superfly
-
Anatomy of a Murder
The famous outlaw, the fawning outcast, and an epic movie that's as stylized as it is insane
-
Eastern Promises
Now playing
National Features
-
Houston Press
"It Was Like an Armageddon Movie"
For days after Hurricane Rita, a Texas prison was hell on earth.
By Chris Vogel -
SF Weekly
The Candidate
Our columnist knows Ralph Nader's running mate all too well.
By Matt Smith -
The Pitch
How Not To Be a Rap Star
First of all, lay off the Ecstasy.
By Nadia Pflaum -
Village Voice
Project Runaway
What becomes a gossip columnist most?
By Michael Musto
Jonathan Demme, who directed Tom Hanks to an Oscar as the AIDS-afflicted lawyer in Philadelphia, might be the most well-meaning filmmaker in Hollywood. Jimmy Carter, winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development," is certainly the most well-meaning ex-president in recent American history. And so Demme's documentary portrait has no shortage of good intentions. Running more than two hours, they're nearly suffocating. The film — basically a vérité-style infomercial that follows Carter during a late-2006 book tour to promote his critique of Israel's West Bank occupation, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid — provides perfunctory background on its subject's piety and Georgia roots, then plunges along with him into the media maelstrom. Carter fences with Charlie Rose, educates Larry King, and signs a vast quantity of books. He's scarcely the first to characterize the separation that exists in Israel's occupied territories as apartheid — the Israeli left has called it that for years. But, waving the term like a red cape before the American public, Carter has been notably disingenuous in exploiting it. Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid actually gives the implied analogy between Israel and white supremacist South Africa short shrift, as does the film. The conditions of the occupation go largely unexplored.
