Interview with Josh and Benny Safdie Origins of movie: JOSH: We made a movie called Daddy Longlegs, which was kind of an attempt to understand things that happened when we were younger from an adult perspective. It was about how memory forms. We finished Daddy Longlegs in 2009 and pemiered it in 2009. And we […]

Mendes’ grandfather told a story about the need to deliver a message between various posts at dusk. This task required him to move through no man’s land, the space between the trenches of the two opposing sides, which meant likely death if the other side spotted you. When it came time to write his war movie, Mendes used this idea as the launching point for his own story.

De Niro gives the performance of a lifetime as Frank Sheeran, also known as “The Irishman” in Scorsese’s three and a half hours mob epic. The film is told from Frank’s point of view as he gives an insider account of his life as a hitman. He describes in detail his involvement with the darkest […]