#ben and josh safdie

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me watching oppenheimer as i treat it like a smash or pass because bro the casts

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Buddy Duress appreciation post 👌👌

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Happy Birthday Adam Sandler!

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ok @minetteskvareninova & @caleblandrybones as promised here's everything i can find on the filming of heaven knows what & the whole "pretending to be homeless" thing. surprisingly after not finding any of the old articles i remember reading in my reblogs the first mention of it i managed to find was actually in a more recent interview i was just reading for funsies & didn't expect to be relevant here:

Though he has no formal Method training, Jones harks back to that tradition – especially in this era of actors as bland, gym-pumped corporate ambassadors. He was recommended to intensity merchants the Safdie brothers for the role of Ilya, the blade-hurling junkie in their 2014 heroin memoir Heaven Knows What on the basis that: “He will do what you need him to do in terms of immersing himself.” He hit the New York streets to understand the vagrant’s life. “I was panhandling a little bit and made $150 in a day.” You suspect there may have been the odd Landry Jones fan among the donors. He didn’t, though, as some have speculated online, go as far as shooting up as part of his preparation: “I worked with Malcolm McDowell [on Antiviral] and he told me: ‘You don’t need to do that shit. You can just be an actor.’”

this interview doesn't really get into his experience staying on the street but is kid of like a precursor to the experience that i found interesting bcus i'd actually never read about their first time meeting before:

So you met him in person for the first time when he arrives for the shoot? Josh Safdie: Yes. His agent asked us to put him in a fancy hotel and stuff. We rolled up to the hotel [that first night].

Ben Safdie: Everybody [from the cast] ended up staying at that hotel soon enough.

Josh Safdie: Yeah, he had a lot of people in that room. Everyone from the street was in his hotel room, they were throwing bottles out the window. So, we pull up to this stoop, and he was sitting in front of the hotel and asked immediately, “Why am I staying at this hotel?” And we were like, “Well, because your agent said…”

Ben Safdie: He said, “I thought you guys were real.”

Josh Safdie: “I thought this was going to be like a real situation. Where are Ari and Ilya staying?” It was about five degrees out, and I said, “Well, because it’s so cold, they stay at this Internet café on Eldridge.” He goes, “I’m going there.” I said, “Well, let’s hang out first.” We took him over to Sean’s house, and we watched a bunch of movies. And then I dropped him off back at his hotel and said, “Tomorrow I’ll introduce you to Ari and Ilya.”

But he didn’t go back to his room. He went and found the Internet café and got time on a computer, and stared at Ilya, the real Ilya, while he was passed out. He had known what he looked like, so he just stared at him and watched how he slept and everything. Arielle wasn’t there that night … Then the next day, I introduced him.

Ben Safdie: That first meeting, we were all sitting at a McDonald’s, and Caleb was just kind of witnessing Ari and the real Ilya. He was very careful not to say anything or do anything — he was just watching them. And, for me, that’s when I realized that he was going to be able to do it, because of the way he was watching. Every once in a while he would say something; he knew what to say to get Ilya on his side, not that it was phony in the slightest — he just knows people. That’s what you’d hope from an actor. He would say things and slowly work his way into the world.

also "At this point, Caleb was fully in costume, looked a lot like Ilya. He showered once, the entire shoot, maybe. He smelled horrible." lmao the dedication.

this one also isn't the one i was looking for where they actually talk about his experience prepping for the role but it does get mentioned:

Benny: I heard that on Contraband he got arrested and cost production a lot of money because he was sitting in jail for three days. For Heaven Knows What, he was upset that we gave him a hotel room. He wanted to stay on the streets immediately with everybody. He’s like, “If I’m going to be playing a kid on the streets, I want to be living with them.” Eventually, he found them and hung out in the streets. But when they found out he had a hotel room, everybody went back to his hotel room and he kind of fit in perfectly. You could see him observing and understanding everything.

i SWEAR back in like 2015 i remember reading another interview where they actually talked directly to caleb about his time filming but i cannot fucking find it & i've dug through literally every interview i was able to find for this movie. also totally disregard what i said in my tags earlier about "wasn't it filming for this when he met katya" bcus once i used my brain cells for 2 seconds i realized that doesn't make any sense timeline wise so it wasdefinitely a different time he looked homeless ig (lmfao???) bcus i distinctly remember him saying she thought he was homeless & didn't believe he was an actor but i will be attempting to dig up that interview later rn i need a break from looking at screens bye

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'Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer will gratefully come to theaters despite two major strikes going on in Hollywood. However, while Nolan’s magnum-Oppen-opus is already being hailed as a masterpiece by those who’ve seen it, the name of the group chat of its cast might be an even more flawless gem.

The plot of Oppenheimer, which stars Cillian Murphy as the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, centers around the creation of the first atomic bomb during World War II in which an international team of scientists, led by the titular protagonist, engage in top-secret laboratory experiments in New Mexico called the Manhattan Project.

The historical event itself represented the coming together of a jaw-dropping list of rockstar scientists at the time such as Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller, and Niels Bohr, among many others. Even Albert Einstein himself provided the letter to Franklin Delano Roosevelt that convinced the president to develop the weapon in the first place, though the general relativity theory discoverer was not part of the nuclear bomb’s creation thereafter. It’s no wonder that the cast of the Oppenheimer film also represents an ensemble of some of Hollywood’s biggest stars.

Other than Murphy, the film also stars Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Bennie Safdie, Kenneth Branagh, Matthew Modine, Gary Oldman, and Josh Hartnett, among many others. However, what is arguably more extraordinary than the cast itself is the name of their collective group chat. All of the aforementioned actors are on one giant WhatsApp thread titled “Oppenhomies,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Remarking on Oppenheimer’s unprecedented ensemble, Downey Jr. said: “It was the cast of Ben-Hur […] Everybody would have their moments. There were no small scenes.”

It’s a good thing Oppenheimer is coming out when it is because it seems to have narrowly dodged any kind of consequence from the dual strikes occurring with the Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild. As a testament to this close call, Murphy, Damon, and Blunt had to abruptly exit the red carpet premiere of Oppenheimer when the SAG strike commenced Thursday...'

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🎥 Joias Brutas

📅 2019

🎬 Josh Safdie, Ben Safdie

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Diamantes en bruto

Año: 2019

Genero: Drama

Director: Josh y Ben Safdie

Puntaje: 3/5

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Good Time (2017) // dir. The Safdie Brothers

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NEW VIDEO Good Time Review

A Grimy All Night Upsetting Adventure

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Arielle Holmes in “Heaven Knows What” (2014)

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With a vein-popping electronic score from Oneohtrix Point Never, the opening credits for Good Time started rolling and I knew I was in for exactly what the film’s title promised.  As someone who hates Twilight with a passion, I have to congratulate Robert Pattinson on his incredible choices in recent years, collaborating with some of the most exciting filmmakers around. Dirty and brutal, shot on grainy 35mm film under lights of every colour. This is raw pulp energetic filmmaking that can only be done with a low budget and a don’t give a fuck attitude. This was my first Safdie Brothers film and I’m keen for more good times. Eagerly waiting for the release of the soundtrack.

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Good time, 2017 , Safdie brothers

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IndieWire’s 19 Best Movies of 2019 (more here)

10. Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”

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5. Josh and Benny Safdie’s “Uncut Gems”

4. Bi Gan’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”

3. Alejandro Landes’ “Monos”

2. Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman”

1. Pedro Almodovar’s “Pain and Glory”

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films without faces — uncut gems (2019) dir. josh safdie and ben safdie.

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Uncut Gems (2019)

Dir. Josh Safdie, Ben Safdie