Josh Safdie
Also Known As: Joshua Safdie, The Safdie Brothers
Biography: Joshua "Josh" Safdie (born April 3, 1984 in New York City) is an American director and screenwriter, best known for the New York-set thrillers Good Time (2017) and Uncut Gems (2019). Together with his brother and frequent collaborator Benny Safdie, they are of Syrian-Jewish ancestry and grew up between their European father in Queens and their New Yorker mother in Manhattan. The brothers began making movies when they were kids, inspired by their film-enthusiastic father who translated his love of cinema to Josh and his brother by constantly filming them.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: April 03, 1984
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Gender: Male
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Behind the Soundtrack: 'Uncut Gems' with Daniel Lopatin
Overview: Alongside filmmaker Josh Safdie, composer Daniel Lopatin sat down with us to detail the creative discoveries behind his synth packed score for Uncut Gems. In this exclusive documentary, Lopatin highlights the soundtrack's extensive use of Moog One and how he used the instrument to craft the film's most dramatic moments.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-10
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The Pleasure of Being Robbed
Overview: Mumblecore movie about a young woman named Eleonore who wanders New York City committing acts of theft.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-03
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The Weeknd: 103.5 Dawn FM
Overview: Live performance broadcast of The Weeknd's album Dawn FM.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-01-07
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The Back of Her Head
Overview: This is a story about him, who lives above an older Hindi man, who lives above a delinquent British guy, who lives on top of her. It is the back of her head that he is in love with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-20
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We're Going to the Zoo
Overview: This is a story about a real life brother and sister and their journey to the zoo. On their way, they accidentally pick up a hitchhiker.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-23
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Second Stop from Jupiter: The Making of Daddy Longlegs
Overview: A documentary chronicling the production of Daddy Longlegs.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-13
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10 Crosby
Overview: A series of short films following the interconnected lives on Crosby street, New York City.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-02
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This Summer Feeling
Overview: In high summer, Sasha suddenly dies. Her death brings two virtual strangers, her boyfriend Lawrence and sister Zoé, closer together, sharing their grief and the burden of their loss in Berlin, Paris and New York.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-10-11
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Yeast
Overview: A maddeningly oblivious, tyrannical and emotionally stunted young woman tries her best to negotiate two toxic friendships.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-10
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The Universe Is Out There: Josh and Benny Safdie
Overview: Get to know the siblings whose films have captured the skittering pulse of New York’s city streets. An original documentary featuring footage from the making of their new thriller, Good Time, along with several of the brothers’ early features and shorts. Produced by the Criterion Channel for their "Meet the Filmmakers" series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-03
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Lydia Hoffman Lydia Hoffman
Overview: A young woman invites a vagabond to stay the night at her house but her feelings of insecurity threaten to overshadow the visit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-20
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The Ralph Handel Story
Overview: Benny Safdie’s deadpan spoof of stand-up comedy and staged cinéma verité verges on performance art. His Ralph Handel is a humorless white-collar worker who unaccountably spends his nights working the open mic circuit. Safdie bravely committed himself to actual nightclubs for several of these abysmal routines, lending a curious note of authenticity to the counterfeit documentary.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-19
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Gone Tomorrow
Overview: A short film by Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie, & Alex Kalman.
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Original Language: en
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Daddy Longlegs
Overview: After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny hosts his kids within a midtown studio apartment in New York. During these two weeks, he must figure out if he wants to act as their father or be their friend. Ultimately, their trip upstate results in complete lawlessness taking over their lives.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-28
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Taking Woodstock
Overview: The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life–and American culture–forever.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-26
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Hellaware
Overview: Aspiring but less than ambitious photographer Nate clumsily navigates the New York City art world in a post-grad haze, waiting for his breakthrough project to fall into his lap. During a drug-fueled wormhole through the annals of YouTube, Nate discovers his next subjects when an arbitrary click lands him on a crude music video by the Young Torture Killaz—an Insane Clown Posse knock-off group of jaded Delaware teens with a lot to scream about—and the inspiration (and exploitation) flows
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-22
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Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
Overview: When autistic teen Ricky is scolded for skipping class, he escapes into the subway for a days-long odyssey among the subway’s disparate denizens. Meanwhile, his mother wages an escalating search effort above ground. Based on a true story and set in Far Rockaway, Queens, in the days leading up to Hurricane Sandy, these parallel stories of mother and son take the viewer on a touching journey of community and connection in and below New York City.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-24
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My Art
Overview: A 65-year-old single artist living in New York City has a good life: a stable teaching job, successful friends, and a loyal, aging dog named Bing. As her dream of a respectable place in the art world becomes more elusive, her frustration with her lack of recognition feels alarmingly urgent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-05
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Money on the Street: The Making of Uncut Gems
Overview: A behind the scenes look at Uncut Gems (2019) by the Safdie Brothers with interviews from the cast and more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-03-10
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Ezer Kenegdo
Overview: Frictions develop when Yisroel "Izzy" Jonigkeyt, a Chassidic Jew from Crown Heights, travels to San Francisco to visit Polish-born Catholic friend Marek Wisniewski with the intent of discovering why a Bay Area art-world iconoclast named Harry Kierk seeks to destroy a lifetime's worth of his own work. As the visit progresses, Izzy and Marek discover for the first time that complex historical baggage impinges on their curious friendship and, soon, they begin to understand why Kierk is driven towards destruction. Continued encounters with Marek's vaguely anti-Semitic cousin Irek (who is their only gateway to contact Kierk) only compound these tensions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-27
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Hellaware
Overview: Aspiring but less than ambitious photographer Nate clumsily navigates the New York City art world in a post-grad haze, waiting for his breakthrough project to fall into his lap. During a drug-fueled wormhole through the annals of YouTube, Nate discovers his next subjects when an arbitrary click lands him on a crude music video by the Young Torture Killaz—an Insane Clown Posse knock-off group of jaded Delaware teens with a lot to scream about—and the inspiration (and exploitation) flows
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-22
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A Hot Two Weeks: The Making of Heaven Knows What
Overview: The story behind the acclaimed film, "Heaven Knows What," directed by Josh and Benny Safdie, and inspired by the life of Arielle Holmes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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Question & Answer
Overview: The Safdie brothers go undercover to record an interview with Adam Sandler, the star of their film UNCUT GEMS.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-08
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