Jack Fisk is behind the looks of some of the most distinctive films of the past 30-plus years, from David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive” to Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood.” For Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme,” Fisk brought his long experience working with auteurs to create the expansive world of 1950s New York that Timothée Chalamet inhabits as scheming ping pong champ Marty Mauser.
The three-time Oscar-nominated production designer, who just turned 80, is likely the only one on the crew who remembers what the city looked like back then. But Safdie was just as obsessed with getting things right, Fisk says — even down to searching for the right size ping pong balls, since balls were slightly smaller in the 1950s than today’s version.
“Josh has got so much energy and is such a lover of New York, and I was always trying to find things that…
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