Richard Brody
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196 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 21 Jul
Richard Brody’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's a very sad film.
The story concerns McElwee's son, Adrian.
McElwee's a personal documentarian, and his son, Adrian, became a frequent presence in his films, especially in a film from about 10, 12 years ago called Photographic Memory, in which
Adrian is a troubled adolescent.
He's a remarkably creative young man who's having trouble, let's say, launching.
And it seems as if his relationship to the movies that he's been in is in some way both inspiring him and troubling him.
Remake adds one more dimension to this story.
In 2016, at the age of 27, Adrian, who was already struggling with substance abuse in photographic memory, died of a fentanyl overdose.
And Remake is McElwee's attempt to return to his life in films and to his life in films with Adrian, using footage that he had already filmed to reconsider both the relationship and the fact of having filmed him.
And he also immerses himself in footage that Adrian himself shot,
made.
And Adrian was a very talented filmmaker, in my opinion, who, had he kept at it, had he been well, would have been able to achieve something substantial.
It sounds devastating, the film.
It's devastating, it's very moving, and at the same time, it's very much a celebration of Adrian's life.
No, it didn't.
It's the second film by Boots Riley, whose first film, Sorry to Bother You, was really wonderful.
Indeed, and it's a wonderful profile in which some of the things he talks about actually, I think, go far to explain why I Love Boosters, which I think is largely a terrific film, didn't, in fact, go as far, let's say, commercially and even critically as it should have.
Fundamentally, it's a story of three women in the Bay Area, played by Kiki Palmer, Naomi Ackie, and Taylor Page, who are boosters.
They steal high-end fashion and resell it.
The character played by Kiki Palmer, named Corvette, has a special motive that gives the film a real kind of emotional and intellectual kick.
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