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Watch: A Beginner’s Guide to the Safdie Brothers

17 Dec 2019

Words by Will Webb

Close-up portrait of a man with a beard, intense facial expression, and striking purple and orange lighting.
Close-up portrait of a man with a beard, intense facial expression, and striking purple and orange lighting.
Explor­ing the ear­ly work of New York film­mak­ing sib­lings Josh and Ben­ny Safdie.

To cel­e­brate the release of Uncut Gems, star­ring a career-best Adam San­dler, video essay­ist Will Webb presents a beginner’s guide to the films of writer/​director sib­lings Josh and Ben­ny Safdie.

From their lo-fi 2009 sopho­more effort Dad­dy Lon­glegs to 2017’s Good Time, the Safdies have grad­u­al­ly refined their DIY aes­thet­ic and exis­ten­tial themes to cre­ate some of the bold­est Amer­i­can inde­pen­dent cin­e­ma of the last decade.

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