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UNCUT GEMS

4/30/2020

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”Ever since they were kids, Josh and Benny Safdie have shot films guerilla-style, the better to catch the rhythms of the New York streets. They founded Red Bucket Films, where they experimented with real subjects in a blend of “actual” and staged scenarios in order to create a style that went beyond the conventions of commercial filmmaking. In 2009, their second feature (following The Pleasure of Being Robbed) was Daddy Longlegs. Frequent collaborator Ronald Bronstein played a loving but irresponsible single dad, an actor raising two small boys in New York City (Sage and Frey Ranaldo, the sons of Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo). Their next two films pushed the streetwise aesthetic even further. Heaven Knows What (Arts Fuse review) starred Arielle Holmes in a distressing story based on her own experience as a homeless addict. That commitment to reality drew the attention of Robert Pattinson, who starred in 2017’s Good Time.
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