Jeff Reichert
Jeff Reichert is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker and critic who lives in Brooklyn. His films as a director have won awards and screened at major festivals worldwide and include the feature documentaries Gerrymandering, Remote Area Medical, This Time Next Year, the fiction-documentary hybrid Feast of the Epiphany and the shorts Kombit, Nobody Loves Me, American Carnage, To Be Queen, and Before You Were Here. He also produced Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s American Factory, which won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. His work has been awarded the Film Independent Spirit Award, Gotham Award and Cinema Eye Honor (all for Best Documentary). He is a Peabody Award Nominee. He is also the co–founder and editor of Reverse Shot, and has written for Film Comment and Filmmaker among others. Reichert is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
By Michael Koresky, Jeff Reichert
| June 23, 2003
Project for a New American Criticism, Or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate the War
By Jeff Reichert
| June 16, 2003
For those familiar only with 1941 for its reputation as a misfire of epic proportions and disastrous critical reception, it might seem ludicrous to assert that the film somehow manages to speak soberly and presciently to certain political realities of life during wartime.
By Jeff Reichert
| April 13, 2003
Japón is perhaps the most original and striking debut feature I've seen in the last half-decade or so. It has the feel of a first film that came out exactly how its director wanted it to.