Richard Brody Explained

Richard Brody
Birth Date:22 January 1958
Birth Place:United States
Occupation:Film critic
Employer:The New Yorker (1999–present)
Spouse:Maja
Children:2
Alma Mater:Princeton University (BA)
Awards:Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2014)

Richard Brody (born January 22, 1958)[1] is an American film critic who has written for The New Yorker since 1999.

Background

Brody grew up in Roslyn, New York.[2] He is Jewish and has personally identified as an atheist.[2] [3] Brody attended Princeton University, receiving a BA in comparative literature in 1980.[2] He first became interested in films after seeing Jean-Luc Godard's seminal French New Wave film Breathless during his freshman year at Princeton.

In the early 1980s, after graduating from college, Brody briefly lived in Paris.[4] He is the author of a biography of Godard.

Brody has two children with his wife, Maja, who immigrated to the United States from Yugoslavia.[2] [5]

Career

Before becoming a film critic, Brody worked on documentaries and made several independent films.[4] [6] [7] In December 2014, he was made a Chevalier (Knight) in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions in popularizing French cinema in America.[8]

Favorite films

Brody participated in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll,[9] where he listed as his ten favorite films the following:

In the 2022 Sight & Sound critics' poll, half of the films selected remained the same:

Best films of the year

Bibliography

See main article: Richard Brody bibliography.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Notice de personne "Brody, Richard (1958-....)". Bibliothèque nationale de France. fr. February 4, 2024.
  2. News: A Film Maker's Lot: Frustration, Devotion, Rejection and Some Fun . . Collins . Glenn . February 11, 1993 . August 31, 2018. C19. limited.
  3. Brody . Richard . Catching Up . The New Yorker . en-us.
  4. Web site: Bale . Miriam . February 24, 2009 . A Dialogue with Richard Brody . July 20, 2022 . Slant Magazine . en-US.
  5. News: The Groom. The New Yorker. May 31, 2009. Brody. Richard. limited.
  6. Richard Brody . . February 27, 2015 . Condé Nast.
  7. Web site: Richard Brody on Cinema and Digitalization . Cooper Squared. . February 27, 2015 . March 13, 2015 . Liz . Smith.
  8. Web site: The New Yorker's Richard Brody Named Chevalier, Offers Top 10 List . Adams . Sam . . December 15, 2014 . March 12, 2015 . . https://archive.today/20150313070425/http://blogs.indiewire.com/criticwire/the-new-yorkers-richard-brody-named-chevalier-offers-top-10-list-20141215 . March 13, 2015 . live .
  9. Web site: Richard Brody | BFI. https://web.archive.org/web/20160214141514/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people//sightandsoundpoll2012/voter/167. dead. February 14, 2016. www2.bfi.org.uk.
  10. Brody. Richard. December 2, 2021. The Best Movies of 2021. en-US. The New Yorker. December 8, 2021.