Richard Brody
American film critic (born 1958)
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Richard Brody (born January 22, 1958)[1] is an American film critic, filmmaker, and author.
Richard Brody | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 22, 1958 United States |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (BA) |
| Occupation | Film critic |
| Employer | The New Yorker (1999–present) |
| Awards | Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2014) |
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 first 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 as a researcher on documentaries and made an independent film, Liability Crisis, released in 1995.[4][6] Since 1999 he has written for The New Yorker. In December 2014, Brody was made a Chevalier (Knight) in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contributions in popularizing French cinema in America.[7]
Favorite films
Brody participated in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll,[8] where he listed as his ten favorite films the following:
- Gertrud (Denmark, 1964)
- The Great Dictator (US, 1940)
- Husbands (US, 1970)
- Journey to Italy (Italy, 1954)
- King Lear (US, 1987)
- The Last Laugh (Germany, 1924)
- Marnie (US, 1964)
- Playtime (France, 1967)
- The Rules of the Game (France, 1939)
- Shoah (France, 1985)
In the 2022 Sight & Sound critics' poll, four of the films selected remained the same:
- King Lear (US, 1987)
- Shoah (France, 1985)
- The Last Laugh (Germany, 1924)
- The Gold Rush (US, 1925)
- The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Japan, 1939)
- Citizen Kane (US, 1941)
- Playtime (France, 1967)
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Belgium-France, 1975)
- Faces (US, 1968)
- Daughters of the Dust (US, 1991)
Best films of the year
- 2007: The Darjeeling Limited
- 2008: Still Life
- 2009: Fantastic Mr. Fox
- 2010: Shutter Island[9]
- 2011: The Future[10]
- 2012: Holy Motors and Moonrise Kingdom[11]
- 2013: To the Wonder and The Wolf of Wall Street[12]
- 2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel[13]
- 2015: Chi-Raq[14]
- 2016: Little Sister[15]
- 2017: Get Out[16]
- 2018: Madeline's Madeline[17]
- 2019: The Irishman[18]
- 2020: Kajillionaire[19]
- 2021: The French Dispatch[20]
- 2022: Benediction[21]
- 2023: Killers of the Flower Moon[22]
- 2024: Nickel Boys[23]
- 2025: Sinners[24]
Bibliography
- Brody, Richard (2008). Everything is cinema : the working life of Jean-Luc Godard. New York: Metropolitan Books.
- — (2010). Jean-Luc Godard, tout est cinéma: Biographie. Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Jean-Charles Provost. Paris: Presses de la Cité.