A short film from the experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs, documenting the predominantly Jewish immigrant life in Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1955, served as a main reference point for Josh Safdie and costume designer Miyako Bellizzi when building out the bustling downtown world in “Marty “Supreme.” “Obviously I was looking at the young cool kids,” Bellizzi tells Variety about the short film, which she says Safdie showed […]
