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b'As Eric Hynes wrote in the cover story of our July/August issue, \\u201cAt their best, the Safdies\\u2019 films don\\u2019t just mooch off the city\\u2019s story surplus\\u2014they also feed into it, contributing truly odd, activated extensions of urban life.\\u201d Their latest, Good Time, is no exception. In conversation with their lead actor Robert Pattinson, co-writer Ronald Bronstein, and Film Comment editor Nicolas Rapold at a special sneak preview, the filmmakers delineate and riff on the alchemic creation of a criminal anti-hero. Actively engaged in their native New York\\u2019s alternate (and everyday) realities, the Safdie Brothers trace the six-year long journey from the conception of to the making of Good Time\\u2014from a first encounter with Norman Mailer\\u2019s Executioner\\u2019s Song and binge-watched episodes of Cops to news of Richard Matt and David Sweat\\u2019s prison-break and the initial hard-core-addict look of Pattinson\\u2019s character.'