With Daddy Long Legs ... Scott got the brothers a 10-minute segment on CNN for the David Goldman story, as firsthand experts on familial kidnapping.) The next Safdie Brothers film, set in ...

When I was asked by The Huffington Post to comment on New York movies premiering in Sundance, the first film that popped into my mind was Josh and Bennie Safdie’s Daddy Longlegs. Now, as you may know, ...

Filmmaking duo Josh and Benny Safdie are quickly becoming some ... as the ultimate dysfunctional New Yorker in “Daddy Longlegs.” Even that film emerged from a substantial body of work ...

IN making an autobiographical film, the brothers Josh and Benny Safdie had the advantage of ... raw material for their new fiction feature “Daddy Longlegs.” One photo was of a scene that ...

It was a personal film for the Safdie brothers, and some of the tension and realistic atmosphere praised in their later movies can be glimpsed here and there throughout Daddy Longlegs. It also ...

Josh and Benny Safdie. US. 2009. 100mins ... jerky camera style and a grainy look could limit the film’s commercial life to urban arthouses in the US, although some European territories are ...

I'm not sure what to expect from Joshua and Benjamin Safdie ... planning the film for a decade, but events kept getting in the way. “About 10 years ago, after Daddy Long Legs, we became inspired ...

Fixtures of the festival world, the directors have long relied on so-called street casting and gritty observation to make acclaimed neo-realism pieces like “Daddy Longlegs” and “Heaven Knows ...