Red Bucket Films
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The Back of Her Head
Josh Safdie made this assured comedy in and around his apartment building when he was still a film student at Boston University. The dioramic setup plays like a vertical REAR WINDOW: a shy daydreamer (played by Safdie) lives above an older Hindi man who lives above a reckless...Watch Movie
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The Black Balloon
While trying to move forty kids six blocks in New York City alone, a stressed man accidentally loses a bouquet of a hundred balloons. In that bouquet, a lone black balloon scurries free. It dies and comes back to life, returning to the city cruising for a companion. On the...Watch Movie
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The Ralph Handel Story
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...Watch Movie
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I Think I'm Missing Parts
A woman hits a bump in her station wagon and everything goes subtly haywire from there. Disconnected scenes unfold outside her window: a father struggling to manage his son; a man’s cap floating above his head; a singer performing for a small film crew; a skinny swimmer diving...Watch Movie
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John's Gone
JOHN'S GONE is a fever dream comedy. John sells things online, cheats off dollar stores, needs friends but settles for strangers, has roaches. He is punch drunk, not with love but something far more strange and lost. One can only say John's gone. With JOHN'S GONE, the Safdie brothers fully...Watch Movie
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We're Going to the Zoo
"For people who wish they could pick up hitchhikers." Made when director Josh Safdie was still a film student in Boston, WE'RE GOING TO THE ZOO concerns a brother and sister driving hours to the zoo. Without meaning to, they pick up a dapper hitchhiker (played by Safdie) and...Watch Movie
