About the Author

Richard Brody, a film critic and editor at "The New Yorker," is also an independent filmmaker who lives in New York City. "Everything Is Cinema" is his first book.

Reviews

"Richard Brody's biography of Godard--arguably the most important, enigmatic, and exciting filmmaker of the second half of the 20th century--effortlessly weaves intellectual history, a personal saga, and an authoritative reading of the films themselves into a seamless web. It virtually crackles with intelligence, and is a must read for anyone interested in cinema."--Peter Biskind, author of "Gods and Monsters: Thirty Years of Writing on Film and Culture""Full of lucid analysis and human context, Richard Brody's book performs a heroic act in rescuing Godard and his growing shelf of works from the prison of myth and theory, from the cult of youth and the cult of the '60s, restoring him to his place as an engaged, hard-working artist."--Jonathan Lethem, author of "The Fortress of Solitude"
"Godard changed the movies as much as the American masters he grew up on: Welles, Hawks, Hitchcock, and the rest. He is as original as Picasso--but unlike Picasso, he has been denied the biography he has always deserved. This is it. Just at the moment when the New Wave turns fifty, Richard Brody has given us "Everything is Cinema," a remarkable book which describes with sharp intelligence a great and elusive artist's times, intellect, passions, and work."--Wes Anderson, writer and director of "Rushmore," "The Royal Tenenbaums," and "The Life Aquatic"
""Everything Is Cinema "is better than a biography, it is a novel. And a great novel, in which one discovers the story of a man who almost picked the wrong art form, a struggling writer who became an immense filmmaker."--Bernard-Henri Levy, author of "American Vertigo"

"Richard Brody's biography of Godard—arguably the most important, enigmatic, and exciting filmmaker of the second half of the 20th century—effortlessly weaves intellectual history, a personal saga, and an authoritative reading of the films themselves into a seamless web. It virtually crackles with intelligence, and is a must read for anyone interested in cinema."—Peter Biskind, author of "Gods and Monsters: Thirty Years of Writing on Film and Culture""Full of lucid analysis and human context, Richard Brody's book performs a heroic act in rescuing Godard and his growing shelf of works from the prison of myth and theory, from the cult of youth and the cult of the '60s, restoring him to his place as an engaged, hard-working artist."—Jonathan Lethem, author of "The Fortress of Solitude"
"Godard changed the movies as much as the American masters he grew up on: Welles, Hawks, Hitchcock, and the rest. He is as original as Picasso—but unlike Picasso, h

"Richard Brody's biography of Godard--arguably the most important, enigmatic, and exciting filmmaker of the second half of the 20th century--effortlessly weaves intellectual history, a personal saga, and an authoritative reading of the films themselves into a seamless web. It virtually crackles with intelligence, and is a must read for anyone interested in cinema."--Peter Biskind, author of "Gods and Monsters: Thirty Years of Writing on Film and Culture""Full of lucid analysis and human context, Richard Brody's book performs a heroic act in rescuing Godard and his growing shelf of works from the prison of myth and theory, from the cult of youth and the cult of the '60s, restoring him to his place as an engaged, hard-working artist."--Jonathan Lethem, author of "The Fortress of Solitude"
"Godard changed the movies as much as the American masters he grew up on: Welles, Hawks, Hitchcock, and the rest. He is as original as Picasso--but unlike Picasso, he has been denied the biography he has always deserved. This is it. Just at the moment when the New Wave turns fifty, Richard Brody has given us "Everything is Cinema," a remarkable book which describes with sharp intelligence a great and elusive artist's times, intellect, passions, and work."--Wes Anderson, writer and director of "Rushmore," "The Royal Tenenbaums," and "The Life Aquatic"
""Everything Is Cinema "is better than a biography, it is a novel. And a great novel, in which one discovers the story of a man who almost picked the wrong art form, a struggling writer who became an immense filmmaker."--Bernard-Henri Levy, author of "American Vertigo"

"Richard Brody's biography of Godard-arguably the most important, enigmatic, and exciting filmmaker of the second half of the 20th century-effortlessly weaves intellectual history, a personal saga, and an authoritative reading of the films themselves into a seamless web. It virtually crackles with intelligence, and is a must read for anyone interested in cinema."-Peter Biskind, author of "Gods and Monsters: Thirty Years of Writing on Film and Culture"
"Full of lucid analysis and human context, Richard Brody's book performs a heroic act in rescuing Godard and his growing shelf of works from the prison of myth and theory, from the cult of youth and the cult of the '60s, restoring him to his place as an engaged, hard-working artist."-Jonathan Lethem, author of "The Fortress of Solitude"
"Godard changed the movies as much as the American masters he grew up on: Welles, Hawks, Hitchcock, and the rest. He is as original as Picasso-but unlike Picasso, he has been denied the biography he has always deserved. This is it. Just at the moment when the New Wave turns fifty, Richard Brody has given us "Everything is Cinema," a remarkable book which describes with sharp intelligence a great and elusive artist's times, intellect, passions, and work."-Wes Anderson, writer and director of "Rushmore," "The Royal Tenenbaums," and "The Life Aquatic"
""Everything Is Cinema "is better than a biography, it is a novel. And a great novel, in which one discovers the story of a man who almost picked the wrong art form, a struggling writer who became an immense filmmaker."-Bernard-Henri Levy, author of "American Vertigo"