Richard Brody

Richard Brody

Acting

Biography

Richard Brody is today mainly known as a film critic and reviewer for the New Yorker. He is the author of the book “Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard”.

Known For & Full Filmography4 Titles

#1The New Yorker at 100

Movie - 2025, 2h 15m as Self

7.0 / 10
Documentary

Hard-hitting journalism. Era-defining fiction. Witty cartoons. The New Yorker marks its 100th anniversary with this look at its past, present and future. The New Yorker's centennial reveals behind-the-scenes access to editors, writers, and archives of this culturally vital magazine, one of print's last survivors.

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#2Mr. X

Movie - 2014, 2h 15m as Self

6.0 / 10
Documentary

The image of a mysterious, solitary filmmaker - a cineaste maudit - who flees from both the media and the public, is unrelentingly bound to the figure of Leos Carax, in France. Elsewhere, the real focus is on his films and he is considered to be an icon of world cinema. Mr.X dives into the poetic and visionary world of an artist who was already a cult figure from his very first film. Punctuated by interviews and unseen footage, this documentary is most of all a fine-tuned exploration of the poetic and visionary world of Leos Carax, alias "Mr.X".

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#3Terminator Woman

Movie - 1992, 2h 15m as Helicopter Mechanic

4.6 / 10
ActionThriller

Two LA cops, Julie and Jay, must return Marsalas to Africa to stand trial as the chief state witness against international villain Alex Gatelee. Gatelee, into everything from gold smuggling to female slave trade, hijacks the party. In a vicious shoot out Julie and Jay overcome Gatelee's men. Gatelee then has Julie kidnapped from one of his nightclubs. He tries to use Julie as bait to get Jay to hand over Marsalas in exchange for Julie...

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#4Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah

Movie - 2015, 2h 15m as Self - Film critic

6.9 / 10
Documentary

Claude Lanzmann discusses the long and difficult process of researching, shooting, editing, and presenting his groundbreaking and influential documentary, "Shoah" (1985).

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