Richard Brody


Richard Brody 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 one independent film, Liability Crisis, released in 1995. Since 1999 he has written for The New Yorker, and in December 2014, he was made a Chevalier 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, half of the films selected remained the same: