Watching Danny DeVito's Tribeca Film Festival short Curmudgeons, which stars DeVito himself and the late David Margulies as two elderly Brooklynites, reminded me of my Brooklyn-born, Jewish grandparents. For all their bicker and banter—"This soup tastes like hot garbage! What are you, trying to kill me?!" says Margulies' character to his nurse—they are actually big softies, endearing jokesters who have fun pushing buttons in their old age.
Curmudgeons is one of Margulies' final performances; the Ghostbusters and Sopranos actor died just a few months ago. But the film itself is characterized by life: as the two curmudgeons approach their horizon, they discover that they can still surprise themselves.
No Film School sat down with DeVito and writer Joshua Conkel to talk about the merits of optimism, the anxiety of art, and the beauty of making short form content.
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