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Publisher |: The New Yorker

Media Type |: video

Podknife tags |: Movies,; TV & Film

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A look at video releases, with commentary by Richard Brody.

People |: Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow)
Country Of Origin |: USA
Produced In |: New York, NY
Frequency |: Periodic
Explicit |: No

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0 Available Episodes (340 Total) / Average duration: 00:03:47

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0 Available Episodes (340 Total)Average duration: 00:03:47

May 29, 2017

00:04:03

Richard Brody on Josef von Sternberg's “Dishonored,” from 1931.

May 15, 2017

00:04:03

Richard Brody on Albert Brooks's “Mother,” from 1996.

Apr 24, 2017

00:03:28

Richard Brody on Leo Hurwitz's “Strange Victory,” from 1948.

Mar 20, 2017

00:03:20

Richard Brody on Robert Aldrich's “Autumn Leaves,” from 1956.

Jan 30, 2017

00:04:10

Richard Brody on Kenji Mizoguchi's “The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum,” from 1939.

Jan 16, 2017

00:03:14

Richard Brody on Vincente Minnelli's “Home from the Hill,” from 1960.

Dec 12, 2016

00:03:28

Richard Brody on Maya Vitkova's “Viktoria,” from 2014.

Nov 21, 2016

00:03:24

Richard Brody on Christopher Münch's “The Hours and Times,” from 1991.

Oct 24, 2016

00:04:11

Richard Brody on Eddie Murphy's “Harlem Nights,” from 1989.

Sep 12, 2016

00:04:10

Richard Brody on Jacques Demy's “Model Shop,” from 1969.

Aug 15, 2016

00:03:00

Richard Brody on Bill Gunn's “Ganja Hess,” from 1973.

Jul 25, 2016

00:02:58

Richard Brody on Sofia Coppola's “Marie Antoinette,” from 2006.

Jul 04, 2016

00:03:53

Richard Brody on John Cassavetes’s “Faces,” from 1968.

Apr 11, 2016

00:04:46

Richard Brody on James Gray’s “The Immigrant,” from 2013.

Apr 04, 2016

00:05:36

Richard Brody on Shirley Clarke’s “Portrait of Jason,” from 1967.

Mar 28, 2016

00:04:41

Richard Brody on Kathleen Collins’s “Losing Ground,” from 1982.

Mar 21, 2016

00:05:17

Richard Brody on Frederick Wiseman’s “Hospital,” from 1970.

Mar 14, 2016

00:06:06

Richard Brody on Jafar Panahi’s “Taxi,” from 2015.

Mar 07, 2016

00:04:11

Richard Brody on Michelangelo Antonioni’s “The Vanquished,” from 1953.

Feb 29, 2016

00:04:41

Richard Brody on Busby Berkeley’s “For Me and My Gal,” from 1942.

Feb 22, 2016

00:04:27

Richard Brody on Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “Love Is Colder Than Death,” from 1969.

Feb 15, 2016

00:05:07

Richard Brody on Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street,” from 2013.

Feb 01, 2016

00:05:35

Richard Brody on Charles Burnett’s “To Sleep with Anger,” from 1990.

Jan 26, 2016

00:04:38

Richard Brody on Amy Seimetz’s “Sun Don’t Shine,” from 2012.

Jan 19, 2016

00:05:23

Richard Brody on Vincente Minnelli’s “Goodbye Charlie,” from 1964.

Jan 12, 2016

00:06:46

Richard Brody on Ida Lupino’s “Hard, Fast and Beautiful,” from 1951.

Jan 05, 2016

00:05:10

Richard Brody on Whit Stillman’s “Damsels in Distress,” from 2012.

Dec 28, 2015

00:03:57

Richard Brody on Robert Siodmak’s “Christmas Holiday,” from 1944.

Dec 15, 2015

00:04:20

Richard Brody on Douglas Sirk’s “Written on the Wind,” from 1956.

Dec 08, 2015

00:05:04

Richard Brody on Oliver Laxe’s “You All Are Captains,” from 2010.

Dec 01, 2015

00:05:10

Richard Brody on Orson Welles’s “The Trial,” from 1962.

Nov 24, 2015

00:04:19

Richard Brody on Michael Cimino’s “Heaven’s Gate,” from 1980.

Nov 17, 2015

00:04:15

Richard Brody on Luis Buñuel’s “Tristana,” from 1970.

Nov 10, 2015

00:04:41

Richard Brody on Ernst Lubitsch’s “The Marriage Circle,” from 1924.

Nov 02, 2015

00:04:34

Richard Brody on Tim Sutton’s “Memphis,” from 2013.

Oct 27, 2015

00:04:11

Richard Brody on Brian De Palma’s “Mission to Mars,” from 2000.

Oct 20, 2015

00:04:53

Richard Brody on Dorothy Arzner’s “Dance, Girl, Dance,” from 1940.

Oct 13, 2015

00:04:34

Richard Brody on Glauber Rocha’s “Antonio das Mortes,” from 1969.

Oct 06, 2015

00:04:47

Richard Brody on Blake Edwards’s “Experiment in Terror,” from 1962.

Sep 29, 2015

00:04:47

Richard Brody on Gregory La Cava’s “Unfinished Business,” from 1941.

Sep 22, 2015

00:03:40

Richard Brody on Kazuo Hara’s “The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On,” from 1987.

Sep 15, 2015

00:04:52

Richard Brody on Terence Nance’s “An Oversimplification of Her Beauty,” from 2012.

Sep 08, 2015

00:04:25

Richard Brody on Frank Borzage’s “Man’s Castle,” from 1933.

Sep 01, 2015

00:04:52

Richard Brody on Fritz Lang's “You and Me,” from 1938.

Aug 24, 2015

00:04:57

Richard Brody on Vincente Minnelli's “A Matter of Time,” from 1976.

Aug 05, 2015

00:04:39

Richard Brody on Elaine May's “Ishtar,” from 1987.

Jul 28, 2015

00:04:14

Richard Brody on Miranda July's “The Future,” from 2011.

Jul 20, 2015

00:04:08

Richard Brody on Jerry Lewis’s “The Patsy,” from 1964.

Jul 13, 2015

00:04:12

Richard Brody on Otto Preminger's “Laura,” from 1944.

Jul 06, 2015

00:03:50

Richard Brody on Djibril Diop Mambéty’s “Touki Bouki” (1973).

Jun 24, 2015

00:04:45

Richard Brody on Kenji Mizoguchi's “Utamaro and His Five Women” (1975).

Jun 19, 2015

00:04:38

Richard Brody on Albert and David Maysles's “Grey Gardens” (1975).

Jun 07, 2015

00:04:30

Richard Brody on Charlie Chaplin’s “Limelight” (1952).

May 29, 2015

00:04:29

Richard Brody on Peyton Reed’s “The Break-Up” (2006).

May 21, 2015

00:03:52

Richard Brody on F. W. Murnau’s “Tabu” (1930).

May 07, 2015

00:03:53

Richard Brody on King Vidor's “The Fountainhead” (1949).

Apr 30, 2015

00:04:10

Richard Brody on Francis Ford Coppola’s 1982 film, “One from the Heart.”

Apr 23, 2015

00:04:20

Richard Brody on Floyd Mutrux’s “Aloha, Bobby and Rose,” (1975).

Apr 21, 2015

00:04:23

Richard Brody on Peter Bogdanovich’s “What's Up, Doc?” (1972).

Apr 20, 2015

00:03:27

Richard Brody on Yasujiro Ozu’s “Dragnet Girl” (1933).

Apr 07, 2015

00:03:28

Richard Brody on Satyajit Ray’s “The Big City” (1963).

Mar 23, 2015

00:04:41

Richard Brody on Max Ophüls’s “Letter from an Unknown Woman” (1948).

Mar 10, 2015

00:05:10

Richard Brody on William Greaves’s “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One” (1968).

Feb 18, 2015

00:04:52

Richard Brody on Shirley Clarke’s “The Connection” (1961).

Feb 11, 2015

00:05:09

Richard Brody on Raoul Walsh’s “Big Brown Eyes” (1936).

Feb 02, 2015

00:05:15

Richard Brody on Nanni Moretti’s “Caro Diario” (1993).

Jan 26, 2015

00:04:41

Richard Brody on François Truffaut’s “Fahrenheit 451” (1966).

Jan 21, 2015

00:05:04

Richard Brody on Julie Dash's "Daughters of the Dust," from 1991.

Jan 15, 2015

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Richard Brody on Michelangelo Antonioni’s “The Eclipse” (1962).

Jan 15, 2015

00:04:14

Richard Brody on Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer’s “People on Sunday” (1930).

Dec 29, 2014

00:05:24

Richard Brody on Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s “Cinema Verite” (2011).

Dec 16, 2014

00:04:03

Richard Brody on Clint Eastwood's “Play Misty for Me” (1971).

Dec 09, 2014

00:04:50

Richard Brody on Miguel Gomes’s “Tabu” (2012).

Dec 01, 2014

00:03:34

Richard Brody on James Toback’s “Fingers” (1978).

Nov 25, 2014

00:05:13

Richard Brody on Raoul Walsh’s “The Man I Love” (1947).

Nov 21, 2014

00:05:00

Richard Brody on Wim Wenders's “The Wrong Move” (1975).

Nov 13, 2014

00:04:43

Richard Brody on Jacques Tourneurg’s “Wichita” (1955).

Nov 04, 2014

00:04:20

Richard Brody on Catherine Breillat's “Sex Is Comedy” (2002)

Nov 03, 2014

00:04:55

Richard Brody on Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” (2012).

Oct 28, 2014

00:05:41

Richard Brody on Frank Tashlin’s “The Alphabet Murders” (1965).

Oct 24, 2014

00:04:52

Richard Brody on Robert Siodmak’s “Phantom Lady” (1944).

Oct 24, 2014

00:04:28

Richard Brody on Anthony Mann's "The Furies" (1950).

Oct 21, 2014

00:04:33

Richard Brody on Whit Stillman's “Barcelona” (1994).

Oct 16, 2014

00:05:12

Richard Brody on Kenneth Lonergan’s “Margaret” (2011).

Oct 14, 2014

00:04:39

Richard Brody on Jean-Marie Straub's "The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach" (1967).

Oct 08, 2014

00:03:39

Richard Brody on Samuel Fuller's "Shark!" (1969).

Oct 07, 2014

00:04:48

Richard Brody on John Cassavetes's "Love Streams" (1984)

Oct 03, 2014

00:04:41

Richard Brody on Ida Lupino’s “Outrage” (1950).

Sep 25, 2014

00:03:37

Richard Brody on Irving Cummings’s “Down Argentine Way” (1940).

Sep 19, 2014

00:03:48

Richard Brody on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Medea” (1969).

Sep 08, 2014

00:05:22

Richard Brody on Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s “All About Eve” (1950).

Sep 03, 2014

00:04:04

Richard Brody on Jerry Schatzberg’s “The Panic in Needle Park” (1971).

Jul 04, 2014

00:04:34

Richard Brody on Paul Mazursky's "Bob Carol Ted Alice" (1969).

Jun 24, 2014

00:04:04

Richard Brody on F. W. Murnau's 1926 film "Faust."

Jun 18, 2014

00:04:14

Richard Brody on Preston Sturgess Sullivans Travels (1941).

Jun 04, 2014

00:04:05

Richard Brody on Peter Bogdanovichs Daisy Miller (1974).

May 28, 2014

00:04:09

Richard Brody on Frank Tashlin's "The First Time" (1952).

May 21, 2014

00:03:31

Richard Brody on Monte Hellman's "Two-Lane Blacktop" (1971).

May 14, 2014

00:03:33

Richard Brody on Abbas Kiarostami's "Like Someone in Love" (2012).

May 06, 2014

00:04:48

Richard Brody on Howard Hawks's "Man's Favorite Sport?" (1964).

May 29 | 00:04:03

“Dishonored”

May 15 | 00:04:03

“Mother”

Apr 24 | 00:03:28

“Strange Victory”

Mar 20 | 00:03:20

“Autumn Leaves”

Jan 30 | 00:04:10

“The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum”

Jan 16 | 00:03:14

“Home from the Hill”

Dec 12 | 00:03:28

“Viktoria”

Nov 21 | 00:03:24

“The Hours and Times”

Oct 24 | 00:04:11

“Harlem Nights”

Sep 12 | 00:04:10

“Model Shop”

Aug 15 | 00:03:00

“Ganja & Hess”

Jul 25 | 00:02:58

“Marie Antoinette”

Jul 04 | 00:03:53

“Faces”

Apr 11 | 00:04:46

“The Immigrant”

Apr 04 | 00:05:36

“Portrait of Jason”

Mar 28 | 00:04:41

“Losing Ground”

Mar 21 | 00:05:17

“Hospital”

Mar 14 | 00:06:06

“Taxi”

Mar 07 | 00:04:11

“The Vanquished”

Feb 29 | 00:04:41

“For Me and My Gal”

Feb 22 | 00:04:27

“Love Is Colder Than Death”

Feb 15 | 00:05:07

“The Wolf of Wall Street”

Feb 01 | 00:05:35

“To Sleep with Anger”

Jan 26 | 00:04:38

“Sun Don’t Shine”

Jan 19 | 00:05:23

“Goodbye Charlie”

Jan 12 | 00:06:46

“Hard, Fast and Beautiful”

Jan 05 | 00:05:10

“Damsels in Distress”

Dec 28 | 00:03:57

“Christmas Holiday”

Dec 15 | 00:04:20

“Written on the Wind”

Dec 08 | 00:05:04

“You All Are Captains”

Dec 01 | 00:05:10

“The Trial”

Nov 24 | 00:04:19

“Heaven’s Gate”

Nov 17 | 00:04:15

“Tristana”

Nov 10 | 00:04:41

“The Marriage Circle”

Nov 02 | 00:04:34

“Memphis”

Oct 27 | 00:04:11

“Mission to Mars”

Oct 20 | 00:04:53

“Dance, Girl, Dance”

Oct 13 | 00:04:34

“Antonio das Mortes”

Oct 06 | 00:04:47

“Experiment in Terror”

Sep 29 | 00:04:47

“Unfinished Business”

Sep 22 | 00:03:40

“The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On”

Sep 15 | 00:04:52

“An Oversimplification of Her Beauty”

Sep 08 | 00:04:25

“Man’s Castle”

Sep 01 | 00:04:52

“You and Me”

Aug 24 | 00:04:57

“A Matter of Time”

Aug 05 | 00:04:39

“Ishtar”

Jul 28 | 00:04:14

“The Future”

Jul 20 | 00:04:08

“The Patsy”

Jul 13 | 00:04:12

“Laura”

Jul 06 | 00:03:50

“Touki Bouki”

Jun 24 | 00:04:45

“Utamaro and His Five Women”

Jun 19 | 00:04:38

“Grey Gardens”

Jun 07 | 00:04:30

“Limelight”

May 29 | 00:04:29

“The Break-Up”

May 21 | 00:03:52

“Tabu”

May 07 | 00:03:53

“The Fountainhead”

Apr 30 | 00:04:10

“One from the Heart”

Apr 23 | 00:04:20

“Aloha, Bobby and Rose ”

Apr 21 | 00:04:23

“What’s Up, Doc?”

Apr 20 | 00:03:27

“Dragnet Girl”

Apr 07 | 00:03:28

“The Big City”

Mar 23 | 00:04:41

“Letter from an Unknown Woman”

Mar 10 | 00:05:10

“Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One”

Feb 18 | 00:04:52

“The Connection”

Feb 11 | 00:05:09

“Big Brown Eyes”

Feb 02 | 00:05:15

“Caro Diario”

Jan 26 | 00:04:41

“Fahrenheit 451”

Jan 21 | 00:05:04

“Daughters of the Dust”

Jan 15 | Unknown

“The Eclipse”

Jan 15 | 00:04:14

“People on Sunday”

Dec 29 | 00:05:24

“Cinema Verite”

Dec 16 | 00:04:03

“Play Misty for Me”

Dec 09 | 00:04:50

“Tabu”

Dec 01 | 00:03:34

“Fingers”

Nov 25 | 00:05:13

“The Man I Love”

Nov 21 | 00:05:00

“The Wrong Move”

Nov 13 | 00:04:43

“Wichita”

Nov 04 | 00:04:20

“Sex Is Comedy”

Nov 03 | 00:04:55

“The Master”

Oct 28 | 00:05:41

“The Alphabet Murders”

Oct 24 | 00:04:52

“Phantom Lady”

Oct 24 | 00:04:28

“The Furies”

Oct 21 | 00:04:33

“Barcelona”

Oct 16 | 00:05:12

Margaret

Oct 14 | 00:04:39

The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach

Oct 08 | 00:03:39

Shark!

Oct 07 | 00:04:48

Love Streams

Oct 03 | 00:04:41

Outrage

Sep 25 | 00:03:37

Down Argentine Way

Sep 19 | 00:03:48

Medea

Sep 08 | 00:05:22

All About Eve

Sep 03 | 00:04:04

The Panic in Needle Park

Jul 04 | 00:04:34

“Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice”

Jun 24 | 00:04:04

“Faust”

Jun 18 | 00:04:14

Sullivans Travels

Jun 04 | 00:04:05

Daisy Miller

May 28 | 00:04:09

The First Time

May 21 | 00:03:31

Two-Lane Blacktop

May 14 | 00:03:33

Like Someone in Love

May 06 | 00:04:48

Man’s Favorite Sport?

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