The Magic Hour: Film at Fin De Siecle

The magic hour is the name film-makers give the pre-dusk late afternoon, when anything photographed can be bathed in a melancholy golden light. This work anthologizes J. Hoberman’s movie reviews, cultural criticism, and political essays, published in The Village Voice , Artforum , and elsewhere during the period bracketed by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the World Trade Towers.