LOS ANGELES " Benny Safdie's eyes begin to well up at the memory of it. At September's world premiere of his new film "The Smashing Machine" at the Venice Film Festival, during an intense, emotional scene near the end of the movie, the filmmaker noticed that Mark Kerr, sitting next to him and on whose life the story is based, had begun to sob. Safdie, who had also started to cry, took Kerr's ...
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:45AM on October 4, 2025