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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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A nightmare transmission from the grungiest depths of the New York indie underground, the visceral, darkly funny, and totally sui generis debut feature from Ronald Bronstein is a dread-inducing vision of misfit alienation at its unhinged extreme. In a maniacal performance of almost frightening commitment, Dore Mann plays Keith, a disturbingly maladjusted social outcast and self-described “troll” whose neuroses plunge him into an unstoppable spiral of self-obliteration as his crummy coupon-selling job, pitiful living situation (featuring the roommate from hipster Brooklyn hell), and last remaining human relationships disintegrate around him. As captured in the grimy expressionist grain of Sean Price Williams’s claustrophobic camera work, Frownland is DIY cinema at its most fearless, uncompromising, and unforgettable. DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 2K digital transfer, supervised by director Ronald Bronstein, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Introduction by Bronstein Conversation between Bronstein and filmmaker Josh Safdie Deleted scenes English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by critic Richard Brody and an oral history of the making of the film Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews Frownland (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

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Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness. Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews Marty Supreme

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Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.