Contributors
Richard Brody
@tnyfrontrowRichard Brody began writing for The New Yorker in 1999, and has contributed articles about the directors François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Wes Anderson. Since 2005, he has been the movie-listings editor at the magazine; he writes film reviews, and a blog about movies. He is the author of the book “Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard,” and is at work on a book on French New Wave Cinema.
Reading List: Richard Brody recommends Louis Menand’s “Browbeaten,” about Dwight Macdonald.
Watch: Explain Yourself: Richard Brody, film critic.
All Work
- Richard Brody
“The Florida Project” Is the Cinematic Antidote to Helicopter Parenting
In Sean Baker’s new film, the hard poverty in which a precocious kid is being raised is depicted as all too easy.
5:30 P.M.
- Richard Brody
“The Rape of Recy Taylor”: An Essential, Flawed Documentary at the New York Film Festival
The director Nancy Buirski’s emotionally simplistic approach to her subjects is inseparable from her arm’s-length, impersonal approach to the film.
October 3, 2017
