Months Before Marty Supreme, Odessa A'zion Led An Underrated Movie Similar To This Controversial A24 Cult Classic
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Months Before Marty Supreme, Odessa A'zion Led An Underrated Movie Similar To This Controversial A24 Cult Classic
Two months after its wide release, Marty Supreme is still running in theaters, winning over cinemagoers enthralled by Josh Safdie's masterful direction of controlled chaos and what might be Timothée Chalamet's best performance ever. Despite featuring no training arc, Marty Supreme is a quintessential sports movie that captures the anxiety-inducing mood of any good professional table tennis match.
The Man Who Built ‘Marty Supreme’ (and Won Over Chalamet)
CLIMBING THE LADDER Timothée Chalamet on one of production designer Jack Fisk’s sets for Marty Supreme. “I don’t know how many more years I’ll get to build sets outside in the real world, but it’s the way I like to work,” Fisk tells me. (The Ankler illustration; A24)ShareSubscribe nowToday, I’ll get right down to it: I’ve got a conversation with production designer Jack Fisk, an absolute legend who stands a chance of winning his first Oscar this…
Marty Supreme, Josh Safdie (2025) — Larry's 100
Marty Supreme, Josh Safdie (2025) A frenetic thrill ride beginning in the Lower East Side tenement buildings of NYC to become a globetrotting misadventure, ping-ponging across Europe, Africa, Japan, and New Jersey. Loosely based on real-life Ping Pong shark Marty Reisman, the movie is a mash-up of The Hustler and True Romance. The plot borders on ridiculous, but the film is fueled by Timothy Chalamet’s charisma, ensnaring us into his madness. Hy…
Great victories and great defeats, smuggling and deception: Marty Reisman was more than a table tennis star. Now his life as "Marty Supreme" comes to the cinema screen
The release of Metropolitan, supported by a beautiful media campaign, won the gold medal of this ranking of new features. The racket does not tremble for Marty Supreme, who closes his first day at 52,600 admissions (85,000 with AP), for a solid average of 29 admissions per session (e/s). Josh Safdie's frenzied feature film starts much better than Smashing Machine, of her brother, Benny Safdie, who, last October, had started at 9,000 spectators f…
Director Josh Safdie delivers an electric fresco about post-war America and its glamours. Between competitive fever and the quest for identity, Marty Supreme captures the energy of an era while posing a very contemporary question: what remains when the image took precedence over the being?
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