Josh and Benny Safdie's UNCUT GEMS starring Adam Sandler as a jewelry dealer with a gambling habit

I appreciated the post-game interview where KG is asked about his playing and he says something "I just had to been my concentration on the rock"

The integration of the in-game footage was stunning imo

jesus christ autocorrect did a thing

he says something like "I just had to keep my concentration on the rock"

for a little while I thought the entire parlay was going well but KG needs another rebound or point to win the final part of the parlay and he gets the final rebound and Howard goes nuts and the game ends, and then teh scorekeeper officially amends it to a "team rebound", thus screwing Howard, and Arno's crew kills him, then goes to kill the scorekeeper.

KG really deserves a lot of credit for his performance. He did such a good job. I don't think Kobe or whoever would've had that same kind of manic intensity.

Also, the 2012 Celtics were sick af. Pierce and Rondo totally could carry their own movie franchises.

Yea he did an incredible job xpost

These are interviews of greatness.

https://www.vulture.com/2020/01/uncut-gems-cast-mitchell-stewart-wenig.html

I choose to believe those are the actual Safdie brothers

amazing

omg

saw this today, liked it. the ending was excellent. one of the great basketball films

man i didn't realize keith richard williams was another non-actor. he looks like a character actor you would've seen in a hundred movies, and he's so good

I forgot about the threat he made after Garnett's bodyguards roughed up him. something like how he can't wait to draw his chalk outline or dig his grave or something.

guess he made good on that one!

New short from the Safdies starring Sandler and Benny

https://vimeo.com/382811408

Literal or no, Goldman vs. Silverman might be the most Jewish title ever.

so good

NYer piece said that truck at the end was just parked there with those lights flashing on it, Benny just spontaneously climbed in

curly gray-haired brothers get a vulture interview

https://www.vulture.com/2020/01/uncut-gems-cast-mitchell-stewart-wenig.html

These are interviews of greatness.

https://www.vulture.com/2020/01/uncut-gems-cast-mitchell-stewart-wenig.html

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, January 16, 2020 10:29 AM (two hours ago)

deserves to be posted twice imo

fair, and now I posted it a third time technically

Goldman V Silverman is good! Benny Safdie is mega charismatic.

I’d like to start very generally: How did you get involved with the movie?
Well, maybe you could ask me questions.

Sure, yeah. Did you audition for this?
I auditioned for the movie, but I was in a prior movie working with the Safdies before.

Cool. Tell me about the audition.
The audition was with, I think, Jennifer, a young lady.

Okay. And do you remember what you read, or what the experience was like?
No, I don’t remember.

“So when Amos came on set, we were talking, he asked if Sandler was there yet, and I said he’d be there soon. He said, ‘We were gonna work together a long time ago. Whatever happened to that golf movie?’”

Wonderful conversation on the Jewishness of Uncut Gems

https://jewishcurrents.org/an-unserious-man/

V good

Here’s a tease of one of the songs from Stuart (and to some@extent Mitch) Wenig’s UNCUT GEMS full 10 track album made for the film... spoiler: it’s amazing. R. Stevie Moore-esque pic.twitter.com/hpbfE9AR0g

— SAFDIE (@JOSH_BENNY) January 17, 2020

untouched by man

heard a clip of that same song in a podcast and was o_O that Stuart just cranked out a disc of music "they could use in the movie"

amazing side talent on these guys

i felt a pang all the times he questioned why they didn't want to use it in the movie :(

Very good. I don't understand people who "couldn't take the intensity" though. Sandler is excellent, but I can't get *that* invested in ambulatory garbage.

I think their last one was its equal? Except maybe not quite cuz Benny didn't have to act.

didn't realize Francesa was not gonna play himself; perfect casting tho

I really wish I'd have taken a moment to see this with an audience.

I saw it with a miniscule matinee audience ($10 cheap)

Opening title music was very early '90s cable

I like Good Time, but it's pretty much a bunch of crazy scenarios strung together with little rhyme or reason. Uncut Gems has several actual characters with legible motivations.

Yeah, I'm also in the camp of this one being a major step up.

Opening title music was very early '90s cable

totally agree with moodles post there. this was a whole experience.

I loved the pawn broker who was concerned about whether Ratner was doing okay. This after Ratner had surely tried to screw him a hundred times.

Saw it again today at the big fancy theater. Still excellent. I’m likely about to repeat myself but the opening drone shot is still impressive, great timing and choreography. The whole Ethiopia sequence felt important to me this time now that I knew what all comes afterwards: a dose of the real world, before the gem refracts space and time around it.

Julia’s walkaway after the fight with Howard after the nightclub is a wonderful shot, her yelling at people.

Only clumsy thing I thought was KG in the locker room at halftime fingering the stone, it breaks the illusion created by the game footage a bit too much and there’s no teammates there, just the coach in VO, so it feels super stagey. And we already know he likes the rock!

“who’d you call, your Boston friends? Is this your guy?” a fine moment.

this was great: well cast, well acted, well written, well paced, well directed. Sound design was A+, really captured the NYC experience through and through. my gal lasted about 45 minutes and did the "too stressful" thing.

literally everyone in this is playing at top level but bogosian was downright genuinely creepy.

I would like for their next movie to have one of the following settings:
- oil rig
- whaling vessel circa 1850-1880
- Florida

sorcerer remake

RE: seeing this with an audience, my DC-area audience full of the usual yammering old people didn’t appreciate it. I’m sure they resent movies where the characters talk more than they do. I wasn’t surprised to learn afterward about the low audience scores.

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Probably a dumb question, but why does Arno's pal shoot Howard and Arno at the end? Was it just because he was pissed off about being locked up and wanted to rob them?

Er yeah. Try locking an enraged gangster in a cupboard for a bit and see if it does you any favours lol

- oil rig
- whaling vessel circa 1850-1880
- Florida

Great ideas, love it, we can work something up, love your whole vibe. One quick note: can the oil rig / whaling vessel circa 1850-1880 / Florida be in New York City?

gotta be florida

This after Ratner had surely tried to screw him a hundred times.

Well, it's 47th Street.

Was Garnett's postgame interview where he mentions "the rock" shot for the film? If not, wtf?

"rock" is a common slang term for the basket ball

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Probably a dumb question, but why does Arno's pal shoot Howard and Arno at the end? Was it just because he was pissed off about being locked up and wanted to rob them?

― paolo, Sunday, February 2, 2020 5:53 AM bookmarkflaglink

I feel like it's that, but also, he considers Howard a little peckerwood that has defied Arno and him throughout the movie, no matter what violent action or threat they make. so the motive for him is easy.

as for Arno, I feel like he shot him because he tries to escape, and perhaps he thinks Arno might go to the police, but also, at this point he also probably considers Arno weak for letting Howard walk all over him. probably figures hey, for all the trouble this prick has put me through, let me kill him too, then we'll get not only the money that was originally owed Arno, but maybe the million that Howard's girlfriend just won.