Richard Brody
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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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http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/richard-brody 09-03-2009 19:13:31
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“In Our Day,” the latest feature by the South Korean director Hong Sangsoo, “exemplifies his singular style: in its simplicity, it turns out to be immensely complex,” Richard Brody writes. nyer.cm/el8OcaG
Irving Lerner's Murder by Contract is chilly, sardonic, and socially analytical, revulsed and fascinated, all with an air of purse-lipped documentary; at
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Hong Sangsoo's In Our Day, opening tomorrow at Film at Lincoln Center, a highlight of last year's NYFF, has a distinctive, melancholy place in his oeuvre: a late film on death and futility, on the wisdom that artists dispense because they can't take it with them:
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Reading Justin Chang on Megalopolis makes me even more impatient to see it than I already was, and the time-stopping power therein described makes me wonder whether, um, Francis Ford Coppola saw The Future.
With “Megalopolis,” Francis Ford Coppola has made “a declamatory epic, in which the actors recite as much as they perform, and meanings are not suggested but superimposed, with baldly allegorical intent, over thickets of narrative,” Justin Chang writes. nyer.cm/y0SyxUS
What does 'Pirandellian' mean? According to the Taviani brothers, it means Kaos, as seen today at Quad Cinema at 1 and 6:30p.m.; a supreme masterwork:
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