Daddy longlegs /
Mining the emotional sense memories of their fractured childhoods, Josh and Benny Safdie craft a by turns empathetic and disquieting portrait of parental dysfunction poised between fierce love and terrifying irresponsibility. Manic Manhattan movie theater projectionist Lenny is perhaps the last pers...
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| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH). |
| Published: |
[United States] :
The Criterion Collection,
[2022]
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| Series: | Criterion collection ;
1138. |
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| Summary: | Mining the emotional sense memories of their fractured childhoods, Josh and Benny Safdie craft a by turns empathetic and disquieting portrait of parental dysfunction poised between fierce love and terrifying irresponsibility. Manic Manhattan movie theater projectionist Lenny is perhaps the last person who should be raising kids, yet here he is, trying (and failing) to keep it together as his life unravels over the two whirlwind weeks that he has custody of his young boys (real-life brothers Sage and Frey Ranaldo), with an impromptu road trip, a sleeping-pill mishap, and a night in jail all part of the chaos. Vřit ̌New York naturalism gives way to flights of surreal lyricism, a blearily impressionistic anti-fairy tale that finds unexpected humanity in the seemingly most irredeemable of fathers. |
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| Item Description: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2010. Insert includes an essay by critic Stephane Delorme and a 2009 interview with the Safdies. Special featues: new interviews with actors Sage and Frey Ranaldo and their parents, photographer Leah Singer and musician Lee Ranaldo; documentary from 2017 about Afdies; footage of Sage and Frey Ranaldo's first meeting with actor Ronald Bronstein; making-of program; There's nothing you can do (2008), s short film; deleted scenes; promotional films and trailers. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (22 pages, 13 pages, [2] pages) |
| Format: | Blu-ray, region A, wide screen; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Production Credits: | Editor, Benny Safdie ; cinematography, Brett Jutkiewicz, Josh Safdie. |
| ISBN: | 9781681439655 1681439654 |