In Josh Safdie's 'Marty Supreme,' Timothée Chalamet plays a ping pong champion based on a real player from the 1950s, Marty Reisman.

The game was respected throughout Europe and Asia, turning ping pong stars into big names: In Marty Supreme, one who was imprisoned at Auschwitz tells the story of being spared by Nazi guards who ...

The real and fictional Marty both develop their skills in a funky basement Ping-Pong club on Broadway in New York City, where ...

Marty Reisman was a rather notorious figure from the late 1940s in New York City’s underground table tennis (aka ping pong) world as a twentysomething shark who lured in unsuspecting amateur players ...

Following every dizzying spin of Chalamet’s table tennis hustler, Josh Safdie’s whip-crack comedy serves sensational shots – and a smart return by Gwyneth Paltrow This new film from Josh Safdie has ...

The star is "captivating", alongside an "impeccable" Gwyneth Paltrow, in this "madcap" film about a young man who scams and steals his way to becoming a table-tennis champion. Quite apart from his ...

While the opening card proclaims the film a "true story," Safdie has described Marty Supreme not as a strict biopic but as a ...

The incredible story of how ping pong transformed a nation. Presented by Matthew Syed. 1. China’s first World Champion In the first half of the 20th century, China was not much of a factor on the ...

On the day femicide becomes a crime, the agreement on sexual violence collapses. Nordio: "Just a postponement." For now, all that remains is the photo of Giorgia Meloni and Elly Schlein shaking hands.

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