Josh Safdies Top Ten (or So) N.Y.C. Films
News Source : The New Yorker
News Summary
- Josh Safdie is a native New Yorker and a very fast, very entertaining talker.
- The process took two months, plus twenty silk-screen passes, handstamps, and stencils.
- Safdie kept adding more films, and then still more, in block letters using pens of different colors.
- The document ended up looking like Grandma’s favorite recipe card, if Grandma had O.C.D.
- and a pen fetish.
- He brought up Jonas Mekas, the underground filmmaker and co-founder of Anthology Film Archives.
Josh Safdie directed and cowrote Marty Supreme. He also codirected (with his younger brother, Benny) and cowrote Uncut Gems.
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