Josh and Benny Safdie’s Adventures in Moviegoing
15 Episodes
The undisputed kings of kinetic, adrenaline-rush cinema that unfolds at the heart-stopping pace of a New York minute, Josh and Benny Safdie have been keeping audiences on the edge of their seats (and on the verge of a panic attack) for over a decade with whirlwind character studies like UNCUT GEMS, GOOD TIME, and HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT. In this edition of Adventures in Moviegoing, the brothers sit down to discuss everything from how their father’s love of film shaped their upbringing (and made Dustin Hoffman a surrogate screen dad) to their deep-cut-heavy list of the best New York movies (there’s a lot). The films they’ve chosen to present include a slice-of-life gem from Mike Leigh (MEANTIME); a gritty thriller from Elaine May (MIKEY AND NICKY); and self-reflexive revelations from Krzysztof Kieślowski (CAMERA BUFF) and Jafar Panahi (THE MIRROR), all of which reflect the abiding humanism that courses through the duo’s own work.
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Josh and Benny Safdie’s Adventures in Moviegoing Teaser
Episode 1
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24:30Episode 2Josh and Benny Safdie in Conversation
Episode 2
The directors of UNCUT GEMS and GOOD TIME discuss their favorite cinematic fathers, the all-time best New York movies, and why they consider filmmaking inherently pathological.
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Josh and Benny Safdie on THE NAKED CITY and IN A LONELY PLACE
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1:38:48Episode 4The Naked City
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Directed by Jules Dassin • 1948 • United States
Starring Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart“There are eight million stories in the Naked City,” as the narrator immortally states at the close of this breathtakingly vivid film and this is one of them. Master noir craftsman Jules Dassin a...
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1:33:32Episode 5In a Lonely Place
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Directed by Nicholas Ray • 1950 • United States
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Gloria GrahameWhen a gifted but washed-up screenwriter with a hair-trigger temper—Humphrey Bogart, in a revelatory, vulnerable performance—becomes the prime suspect in a brutal Tinseltown murder, the only person who ca...
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Josh and Benny Safdie on MIKEY AND NICKY
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1:46:30Episode 7Mikey and Nicky
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Directed by Elaine May • 1976 • United States
Elaine May crafted a gangster film like no other in the nocturnal odyssey MIKEY AND NICKY, capitalizing on the chemistry between frequent collaborators John Cassavetes and Peter Falk by casting them together as small-time mobsters whose lifelong re...
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04:03Episode 8Josh and Benny Safdie on CAMERA BUFF
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1:53:35Episode 9Camera Buff
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Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski • 1979 • Poland
A reflexive meditation on art and documentary and a key film in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s career, CAMERA BUFF follows a factory worker's growing obsession with filmmaking after he captures the birth of his daughter on his new 8 mm camera.
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05:45Episode 10Josh and Benny Safdie on MEANTIME
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Meantime
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Directed by Mike Leigh • 1984 • United Kingdom
Starring Tim Roth, Phil Daniels, Gary OldmanA slow-burning depiction of economic degradation in Thatcher’s England, Mike Leigh’s MEANTIME is the culmination of the writer-director’s pioneering work in television. Unemployment is rampant in London’s...
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04:36Episode 12Josh and Benny Safdie on CLOSE-UP
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Close-up
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Directed by Abbas Kiarostami • 1990 • Iran
Starring Hossein Sabzian, Abolfazi Ahankhah, Mahrokh AhankhahInternationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and CLOSE-UP is his most radical, brilliant...
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03:06Episode 14Josh and Benny Safdie on THE MIRROR
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1:34:33Episode 15The Mirror
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Directed by Jafar Panahi • 1997 • Iran
Starring Mina Mohammad Khani, Aida Mohammadkhani, Kazem MojdehiIranian master Jafar Panahi explores the interplay of imagination and reality in this slyly inventive meta-film marvel. When her mother is late to pick her up from school, first grader Mina (Mi...
