Richard Brody
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196 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
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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Oh, my God.
She's going to treasure that.
And it's an odd thing to say because, by definition, the best movie of the year is directed by the best director, Ryan Coogler, for Sinners.
But I wanted to divide things up a little bit here because I wanted to look at direction in a kind of classical, artisanal way.
The Mastermind is a really...
dramatic movie, but it's kind of small scale.
It has very long takes with very careful physicality.
It's a heist movie set in 1970, starring Josh O'Connor as an unemployed cabinetmaker who decides to break with his bourgeois life and become an art thief.
This is actually one of the reasons why Hollywood films are so good right now.
I think one of the positive effects of Barbenheimer is that studios have come to realize that one way of actually doing well, both with money and with awards, is to give good directors a great deal of freedom.
One of the most comprehensively imaginative films that I've seen in a long time.
Thrilling.
I mean...
Visually, emotionally, historically exciting.
It starts out like a historical drama with a great deal of detail, including practical material detail about life under Jim Crow in Mississippi in 1932.
It veers into becoming a vampire film.
But as a vampire film, it isn't just a vampire film.
It's vampires as metaphor.
And the metaphor is a brilliant metaphor for cultural appropriation, for the way that white artists will go down South, both literally and metaphorically, take over the blues and turn them into something of their own, along with whatever devastating effect that may have on the artists themselves.
It's in my top ten.
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