#1138: SAFDIE, Josh and SAFDIE, Benny: Daddy Longlegs (2009)
SAFDIE, Josh and Benny (United States)
Daddy Longlegs [2009]
Directors/Writer
Deleted scenes
Daddy Longlegs [2009]
Spine #1138
Blu-ray
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.
99 minutes
Color
Color
Stereo
1:78:1 aspect ratio
1:78:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2022
Josh Safdie was 25 and Benny Safdie was 23 when they wrote and directed Daddy Longlegs.
Additional writing by Ronald Bronstein.
Others films by the Safdie Brothers in the Collection:
#1101: Uncut Gems (2019)
The Film
Others films by the Safdie Brothers in the Collection:
#1101: Uncut Gems (2019)
The Film
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The Booklet
Fourteen-page booklet featuring an essay by critic Stéphane Delorme and a 2009 interview with the Safdies.
Commentary
None.
Interviews
With actors Sage and Frey Ranaldo and their parents, artist Leah Singer and musician Lee Ranaldo.
Documentary
From 2017 about the Safdies.
Footage
Of Sage and Frey’s first meeting with actor Bronstein.
Making-of program
Short film
By the Safdies: There’s Nothing You Can Do (2008) featuring members of the Daddy Longlegs cast and crew.
Episode
Of Talk Show, a 2008 interview series featuring Daddy Longlegs cast and crew.
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The ExtrasThe Booklet
Fourteen-page booklet featuring an essay by critic Stéphane Delorme and a 2009 interview with the Safdies.
Commentary
None.
Interviews
With actors Sage and Frey Ranaldo and their parents, artist Leah Singer and musician Lee Ranaldo.
Documentary
From 2017 about the Safdies.
Footage
Of Sage and Frey’s first meeting with actor Bronstein.
Making-of program
Short film
By the Safdies: There’s Nothing You Can Do (2008) featuring members of the Daddy Longlegs cast and crew.
Episode
Of Talk Show, a 2008 interview series featuring Daddy Longlegs cast and crew.
Promotional films and trailer
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