Josh Safdie

Josh Safdie

Born: April 3, 1984
in New York City, New York, USA
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.

Movies for Josh Safdie...

The Weeknd: 103.5 Dawn FM
Title: The Weeknd: 103.5 Dawn FM
Character: Arthur Fleminger (voice)
Released: January 7, 2022
Type: Movie
Live performance broadcast of The Weeknd's album Dawn FM.
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Money on the Street: The Making of Uncut Gems
Title: Money on the Street: The Making of Uncut Gems
Character: Self
Released: March 10, 2020
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes look at Uncut Gems (2019) by the Safdie Brothers with interviews from the cast and more.
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Question & Answer
Title: Question & Answer
Character: Self
Released: February 8, 2020
Type: Movie
The Safdie brothers go undercover to record an interview with Adam Sandler, the star of their film UNCUT GEMS.
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Behind the Soundtrack: 'Uncut Gems' with Daniel Lopatin
Title: Behind the Soundtrack: 'Uncut Gems' with Daniel Lopatin
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 2020
Type: Movie
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.
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Ezer Kenegdo
Title: Ezer Kenegdo
Character: Levi
Released: October 27, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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The Universe Is Out There: Josh and Benny Safdie
Title: The Universe Is Out There: Josh and Benny Safdie
Character: Self
Released: October 3, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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My Art
Title: My Art
Character: Tom
Released: September 5, 2016
Type: Movie
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.
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This Summer Feeling
Title: This Summer Feeling
Character: Thomas
Released: October 11, 2015
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Togetherness
Character: Craddock Brother #1
Released: January 11, 2015
Type: TV
Four adults nearing 40, living under the same roof, struggle to keep their relationships and their individual dreams alive.
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A Hot Two Weeks: The Making of Heaven Knows What
Title: A Hot Two Weeks: The Making of Heaven Knows What
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
The story behind the acclaimed film, "Heaven Knows What," directed by Josh and Benny Safdie, and inspired by the life of Arielle Holmes.
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Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
Title: Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
Character: Fighter
Released: May 24, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Hellaware
Title: Hellaware
Released: June 22, 2013
Type: Movie
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
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Hellaware
Title: Hellaware
Character: Gallery Patron
Released: June 22, 2013
Type: Movie
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
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Lydia Hoffman Lydia Hoffman
Title: Lydia Hoffman Lydia Hoffman
Released: June 20, 2013
Type: Movie
A young woman invites a vagabond to stay the night at her house but her feelings of insecurity threaten to overshadow the visit.
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Second Stop from Jupiter: The Making of Daddy Longlegs
Title: Second Stop from Jupiter: The Making of Daddy Longlegs
Character: Himself
Released: December 13, 2011
Type: Movie
A documentary chronicling the production of Daddy Longlegs.
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Title: The Neistat Brothers
Character: Self
Released: June 5, 2010
Type: TV
Following Casey and Van Neistat, The Neistat Brothers is a autobiographical documentary following the lives and adventures of the two brothers. The series follows their travels around the world and New York as they tell their stories about six week chunks of their lives in their signature vlog-like style
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Daddy Longlegs
Title: Daddy Longlegs
Character: Chris
Released: May 14, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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Taking Woodstock
Title: Taking Woodstock
Character: Documentary Cameraman
Released: August 26, 2009
Type: Movie
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.
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The Pleasure of Being Robbed
Title: The Pleasure of Being Robbed
Character: Josh
Released: October 3, 2008
Type: Movie
Mumblecore movie about a young woman named Eleonore who wanders New York City committing acts of theft.
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Yeast
Title: Yeast
Character: Riverguy 1
Released: March 10, 2008
Type: Movie
A maddeningly oblivious, tyrannical and emotionally stunted young woman tries her best to negotiate two toxic friendships.
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The Back of Her Head
Title: The Back of Her Head
Character: Him
Released: January 20, 2007
Type: Movie
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.
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We're Going to the Zoo
Title: We're Going to the Zoo
Character: The Hitchhiker
Released: June 23, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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The Ralph Handel Story
Title: The Ralph Handel Story
Character: The Director (voice)
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
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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Gone Tomorrow
Title: Gone Tomorrow
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A short film by Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie, & Alex Kalman.