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Mining the emotional sense memories of their own 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 (cowriter and longtime Safdie collaborator Ronald Bronstein) 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. Vérité New York naturalism gives way to flights of surreal lyricism in Daddy Longlegs, a blearily impressionistic anti–fairy tale that finds unexpected humanity in the seemingly most irredeemable of fathers. DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital transfer, approved by directors Josh and Benny Safdie, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack New interviews with actors Sage and Frey Ranaldo and their parents, photographer Leah Singer and musician Lee Ranaldo Documentary from 2017 about the Safdies Footage of Sage and Frey Ranaldo’s first meeting with actor Ronald Bronstein Making-of program There’s Nothing You Can Do (2008), a short film by the Safdies featuring members of the Daddy Longlegs cast and crew Deleted scenes Promotional films and trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: A 2009 print interview with the Safdies Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews Daddy Longlegs (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

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Product Description Following a bank robbery, Connie Nikas (Robert Pattinson) evades capture while his mentally challenged younger brother Nick (Benny Safdie, who also co-directed) gets locked up. Short on bail money, Connie tries to bust Nick out. When THAT plan hits a snag, he must navigate the seedy streets of New York City's grimy criminal underworld in a desperate attempt to raise the $10,000 he needs to secure his brother's release. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Buddy Duress, Taliah Webster also star in this offbeat crime thriller. 103 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English DTS HD 5.1 Master Audio; Subtitles: English (SDH), Spanish; featurette; audio commentary by Safdie, Duress, Webster, others. Review Special Features: ''The Pure and the Damned: GOOD TIME'' Featurette Music Video Audio Commentary with Directors Josh and Benny Safdie, Producer Sebastian Bear McClard, and Actors Taliah Lennice Webster and Buddy Duress --Lionsgate

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Directed by celebrated filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie (LENNY COOKE, DADDY LONGLEGS), HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT blends fiction, formalism and raw verite as it follows a young heroin addict (Arielle Holmes) who finds mad love in the streets of New York. The film is based on Holmes' soon-to-be-published memoir 'Mad Love in New York City'. Co-starring Caleb Landry-Jones (X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, BYZANTIUM), HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT also features street legend Buddy Duress and gore rap phenom Necro.