A group of officials, table tennis enthusiasts and community leaders recently gathered to celebrate the 53rd anniversary of Ping-Pong Diplomacy, with its legacy remaining a powerful testament to the ...

The director Josh Safdie had a personal connection to 1950s players, but he also enlisted professionals to choreograph the action and employed a visual trick. By Esther Zuckerman When Josh Safdie was ...

Safdie goes deep on his terror of table tennis matches and how he pulled them off through choreography, CGI, and Timothée Chalamet's training. “I had ADD, so I ...

Carol Klenfner credits ping pong for keeping her mind sharp and active in her 80s. She began playing table tennis in her late 60s after seeing a documentary on senior athletes. Klenfner's daily ...

In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, the film's ping-pong consultant, Diego Schaaf, says he hopes the actor's wild press run "gives the sport the breakthrough it’s deserved." By Lexi Carson ...

In the 1940s and '50s, New York City table tennis was a gritty subculture full of misfits, gamblers, doctors, actors, students and more. They competed, bet on the game or both at all-night spots like ...

“Drama is very important to me. I can’t undercut the drama,” notes one of the year’s most deeply carved cinematic characters, Marty Mauser, played by Timothée Chalamet with a staggering commitment to ...

Long before Timothée Chalamet starred in “Marty Supreme” — the hotly anticipated movie that hits theaters nationwide on Christmas Day — there was Marty “The Needle” Reisman, the wild-eyed, high-strung ...

Volleying questions with the table tennis champ Marty Reisman, an inspiration for Timothée Chalamet’s new film, showed that he was a character in his own right. Marty Reisman won 22 major table tennis ...

Carolina Pong founder Tripp Roche, middle, watches as table tennis players play at St. Andrews Park gym in Columbia, S.C. on Dec. 1, 2025. The game of table tennis, also known as ping pong, is taking ...

Timothée Chalamet's new movie "Marty Supreme" arrives in theaters nationwide on Christmas Day. Director Josh Safdie's genre-busting sports drama is rated R. The young actor deserved an Oscar for ...

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong took the stage at Port Chester, N.Y.’s Capitol Theatre over the weekend for a very special two-night holiday program dubbed “The Festival of Melting Lights.” On the final ...