By Foster Kamer 1/04/12 7:07pm

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End of an Era: J. Hoberman is Out at the Village Voice, Staffers Mourn Former Critic and Labor Leader’s Departure

The Village Voice‘s longtime chief film critic and an institution at the paper, J. Hoberman, is out, his tenure ended by Village Voice Media as yet another in a long, ongoing series in staff reductions at the paper. The reactions from fellow staffers and among his contemporaries have been swift and unilateral in their disappointment and sadness. Read More

By Andrew Sarris 1/27/09 6:54pm

Remembering Roud

I happily salute Jim Hoberman for his article in the Jan. 20th Village Voice, a warm tribute to the late longtime (from 1963 to 1987) director of the New York Film Festival, Richard Roud, who died 20 years ago. I worked for and with Roud when I was a member of the festival’s selection committee Read More