Richard Brody (born January 22, 1958)[1] is an American film critic who has written for The New Yorker since 1999.
Richard Brody | |
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Born | January 22, 1958 |
Alma mater | Princeton University (BA) |
Occupation | Film critic |
Employer | The New Yorker (1999–present) |
Spouse | Maja |
Children | 2 |
Awards | Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2014) |
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]
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]
Brody participated in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll,[9] where he listed as his ten favorite films the following: