In a podcast almost as heady and packed as their latest film Uncut Gems (2019) and cheekily titled “Seduce and Destroy,” after the particular brand of sleazy pickup artistry promoted by dating coach Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise) in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia (1999), Josh and Benny Safdie talked to Anderson about, among other things, how their […]
Author: Sucheta Chakraborty
Sucheta studied film at the University of Edinburgh and is now a writer and editor based in Mumbai. Her writing on cinema, gender and popular culture has appeared in publications like MUBI Notebook, Senses of Cinema, CineVue, The Hindu, Scroll.in, Firstpost, Helter Skelter Magazine, The Bangalore Review and Film Companion among others. She has also co-authored In the Life of a Film Festival: 20 Years of MAMI, a monograph on the Mumbai Film Festival, published by HarperCollins India in 2018. Her work can be found at suchetachakraborty.journoportfolio.com and @cinememsaab.