Richard Brody

Richard Brody (born January 22, 1958) is an American film critic, filmmaker, and author. Background Brody grew up in Roslyn, New York. He is Jewish and has personally identified as an atheist. Brody attended Princeton University, receiving a BA in comparative literature in 1980. He first became interested in films after seeing Jean-Luc Godard's seminal French New Wave film Breathless during his f...

Richard Brody (born January 22, 1958) is an American film critic, filmmaker, and author. Background Brody grew up in Roslyn, New York. He is Jewish and has personally identified as an atheist. Brody attended Princeton University, receiving a BA in comparative literature in 1980. 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. 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. Career Before becoming a film critic, Brody worked as a researcher on documentaries and made an independent film, Liability Crisis, released in 1995. 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. Favorite films Brody participated in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll, where he listed as his ten favorite films the following: In the 2022 Sight & Sound critics' poll, four of the films selected remained the same: Best films of the year 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. References External links New Yorker page Richard Brody at IMDb