His curly gray hair is studiously messy, and his thick black eyeglass frames are downtown dorky.

WSJ: A Homegrown Fashion Mogul

At our first truck stop, I stole a pair of driving glasses that had yellow-tinted lenses and large black plastic frames.

NEWYORKER: Reverting to a Wild State

Filming in suave, charcoal-matte black-and-white, he frames the poignant mini-melodramas of daily life with a calmly analytical yet tenderly un-ironic eye.

NEWYORKER: Tabu

His lunch, which he ate on his own in an enormous, empty dining room while reading a book under the absentminded gaze of the elderly maid, and the black-and-white gaze of his deceased wife looking out from photographs in ornate silver frames, was light: soup and a small portion of fish and mashed potatoes, some of which he would allow to go cold.

NEWYORKER: The Insufferable Gaucho