Josh Safdie | 2025 | USA | 2h29m + 10 min intermission | English language with English subtitles
MARTY SUPREME is Safdie in full period sprint, a 1950s New York story about a table tennis hustler who treats the game like street survival. Timothée Chalamet plays Marty Mauser, loosely inspired by real-life legend Marty Reisman, a kid with talent, nerve, and a need to win that keeps outgrowing the room he is in.
Safdie shoots the Lower East Side like it has sweat in the walls. The film builds its world through physical detail and motion, from crowded streets to cramped back rooms where every match feels like reputation, money, and identity on the line. The production leaned hard into authenticity, including 35mm photography by Darius Khondji and design work led by Jack Fisk, so the era never feels like decoration.
This is not a sports movie about clean victory. It’s about appetite. Marty chases greatness the way some people chase oxygen, and the film keeps asking what that kind of drive turns you into once the crowd starts watching. Safdie called it his move into bigger, more maximal territory, but the emotional engine stays intimate, one stubborn person trying to force the world to take him seriously.
Location: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi. A five minute walk from Liberty Square metro.
How to find FOMO: Enter the Bazari via Atoneli St above Carrefour and take the stairs on your left behind the jewellery stand. One flight up. Video instructions here: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17933106294029235
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani, 0102 Tbilisi, Georgia