#marshall curry

[tardisman14]

Best Documentary Short Subject

“Black Sheep,” Ed Perkins

“End Game,” Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

“Lifeboat,” Skye Fitzgerald

“A Night at the Garden,” Marshall Curry

“Period. End of Sentence.,” Rayka Zehtabchi

[watchingalotofmovies]

The New Yorker at 100

The New Yorker at 100    [trailer]

The New Yorker's centennial reveals behind-the-scenes access to editors, writers, and archives of this culturally vital magazine, one of print's last survivors.

It feels more celebratory than in-depth. But it's a very interesting documentary about the storied magazine that goes by very quickly. I wouldn't have minded if it were longer.

I enjoyed meeting film critic Richard Brody.

[davidwatchedthat]

4/15/25

SNL50: BEYOND SATURDAY NIGHT, directed by Robert Alexander/Neil Berkeley/Marshall Curry/Jason Zeldes, 2025.

[banitsabby]

One of my favourite podcast episodes (The Living Room) got turned into an Oscar-winning short film called The Neighbours' Window. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1vCrsZ80M4&ab_channel=marshallcurry

This is based on a real-life story told by Diane Weipert told originally on the Love + Radio show: https://loveandradio.org/2015/03/the-living-room/

[tilos-tagebuch]

🇩🇪 1939 versammelten sich 20.000 Amerikaner im New Yorker Madison Square Garden, um den Aufstieg des Nationalsozialismus zu feiern - ein Ereignis, das in der amerikanischen Geschichte weitgehend vergessen wurde. "A Night at The Garden", vollständig aus Archivmaterial hergestellt, das in dieser Nacht gedreht wurde, transportiert das Publikum zu dieser erschreckenden Versammlung und beleuchtet die Macht der Demagogie und des Antisemitismus in den Vereinigten Staaten. "A Night at The Garden" (deutsch Ein Abend im Garden) ist ein englischsprachiger Dokumentar-Kurzfilm von Marshall Curry. Der Film zeigt mit Hilfe von Archivmaterial eine „pro-amerikanische“ Nazi-Wahlkampfkundgebung im Madison Square Garden in New York aus dem Jahr 1939, insbesondere antisemitische Teile einer Rede von Fritz Julius Kuhn, dem Vorsitzenden des Amerikadeutschen Bundes. Curry schrieb auch das Drehbuch, übernahm den Schnitt und produzierte den Film gemeinsam mit Laura Poitras und Charlotte Cook. "A Night at The Garden" wurde 2019 für einen Oscar in der Kategorie "Bester Dokumentar-Kurzfilm" nominiert.

🇬🇧 1939, 20.000 Americans gathered in New York's Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism - an event largely forgotten in American history. "A Night at The Garden," made entirely from archival footage shot that night, transports the audience to this terrifying gathering and sheds light on the power of demagogy and anti-Semitism in the United States. "A Night at the Garden" is an English-language documentary short film by Marshall Curry. The film uses archive material to show a "pro-American" Nazi campaign rally in Madison Square Garden in New York in 1939, especially anti-Semitic parts of a speech by Fritz Julius Kuhn, chairman of the American German Confederation. Curry also wrote the screenplay, took over the editing and produced the film together with Laura Poitras and Charlotte Cook. "A Night at the Garden" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film in 2019.

[theexistentialeasel]

The Neighbor's Window, a review during Covid

Week 3 | July 23rd, 2020

The Neighbor's Window was directed and produced in 2019 by Marshall Curry, who based the short film on an episode entitled The Living Room of the podcast Love and Radio, where Diane Weipert recalled a similar story. The film tells the story of Ali and Jacob, a middle-aged couple with kids living in New York City. Their relationship is strained from the trials and tribulations of life. One day, they notice that their apartment window directly faces that of their neighbors, a young couple who just moved in. Unable to resist the temptation, Ali and Jacob spy on their neighbors, and compare their circumstances to their neighbors. We watch from their perspective as their neighbor's lives unfold. Eventually, after a turning of favors, it is revealed that the neighbors were also watching Ali and Jacob's lives and a strange kind of bond is formed between the pair who found comfort in watching each other's lives from afar.

The film had great success and even won an Academy Award in 2020 for Best Live Action Short Film. However, I think no one knew just how much the film would truly resonate with people during the Covid-19 pandemic we are still unfortunately in the midst of. When at the height of it, with people stuck at home, working from home and everything in between taking place at home, I think we could all relate to Ali and Jacob, envious of what they could see through the window: people having parties and close social interaction. Similarly, the short film also illustrates this new modern condition we have seemingly entered in where we form relationships with people from far away. Through these series of openings and closing of the curtains for those living in metropolitan cities but also of the Zoom screens, which, similar to the former, offer a window into someone else's life and home. We relate to each other this way, finding connection in the fact that we are both confined to our voyeuristic instincts, standing in front of our windows and cameras, peering into other people's personal lives.

Curry, Marshall, director. "The Neighbor's Window." Marshall Curry Productions, 2019.

[diivdeep]

[venomavenue]

The Neighbors’ Window -⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sometimes, when I’m on the verge of a siesta, I’ll scan through YouTube for a short-film to help me doze off. I typed in ‘psychological’ and came across this beautifully executed story about perspective. In 20 min, I was fed a long-term relationship sewn together by exhaustion, amusement, light jealousy, subtle resentment, empathy and appreciation. I will defintly need to start reviewing more short films. ~the actual reason for unhappiness is not not getting what you want, but forgetting what you already have~