Richard Brody
Movies Editor at The New Yorker
I am the movies editor for Goings On About Town and the author of “Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard.”
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link.newyorker.com | Richard Brody |Helen Shaw |Amanda Petrusich
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newyorker.com | Richard Brody |Michael Schulman |Sheldon Pearce |Helen Shaw
In the nineteen-seventies, U.C.L.A.’s Ethno-Communications program, founded to increase minority enrollment, attracted a critical mass of young Black filmmakers. They quickly began to make a widely varied range of independent films that were unified by their bold and intimate attention to Black lives and history, and by distinctive cinematic forms to match; the group eventually gained the nickname the L.A. Rebellion.
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2 weeks ago |
newyorker.com | Richard Brody
I’ve never played Minecraft in my life—but then I’m not a Christian, either, and have always delighted in the distinctly Mormon cinematic universe of Jared Hess, the director of “A Minecraft Movie.” He’s best known for “Napoleon Dynamite,” from 2004, which evokes its spiritual milieu only implicitly, by the absence of secular pop culture and of teen-age ribaldry.
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newyorker.com | Richard Brody
Pauline Kael’s most famous work for The New Yorker, her celebrated review of “Bonnie and Clyde,” from October, 1967, was the second piece she ever wrote for the magazine. The first, from June of that year, didn’t make a comparable splash but had a much wider reach, encompassing a subject that’s as central to the world of film now as it was then. Titled “Movies on Television,” it chronicles Kael’s experience of watching movies at home, on cable TV, before the advent of VCRs and videotape rentals.
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flipboard.com | Richard Brody
9 hours agoWhen travelers speak of sunny San Diego, they talk about more than the weather. Sure, California’s second-largest city boasts an average of 266 sunny days each year. But San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payare says San Diego residents' infectious optimism and warm disposition also welcome …
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For Hessians only: A Minecraft Movie has little drama or comedy to recommend, but it's adorned with winks and weirdnesses that tether it to the Jared Hess cinematic universe (and he's one of the few directors to have one): https://t.co/pV0FzEmSt7
