Chop shop / a Big Beach production in association with Muskat Filmed Properties & Noruz Films ; a film by Ramin Bahrani ; produced by Lisa Muskat, Marc Turtletaub, Jeb Brody ; written by Bahareh Azimi, Ramin Bahrani ; directed and edited by Ramin Bahrani.
Edition:
Director approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 x 71 cm folded to 17 x 12 cm)
Container of (work): Chop shop (Motion picture : 2007)
Notes:
Isamar Gonzales, Alejandro Polanco, Rob Sowulski, Carlos Zapata, Ahmad Razvi, Anthony Felton. Title from title frames. Originally released as a motion picture in 2007. Wide screen (1.78:1). Features: High-definition digital master, supervised and approved by director Ramin Bahrani, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack; Audio commentary from 2006 featuring Bahrani, director of photography Michael Simmonds, and actor Alejandro Polanco; New program featuring a conversation among Bahrani, Polanco, actor Ahmad Razvi, and assistant director Nicholas Elliott about the making of the film; New conversation between Bahrani and writer and scholar Suketu Mehta on the immigrant experience in New York City and on film; Rehearsal footage from 2006 featuring Polanco, Razvi, and actors Isamar Gonzales, Rob Sowulski, and Carlos Zapata; Trailer; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing; An essay by novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Summary:
"For his acclaimed follow-up to Man Push Cart, Ramin Bahrani once again turned his camera on a slice of New York City rarely seen on-screen: Willets Point, Queens, an industrial sliver of automotive-repair shops that remains perpetually at risk of being redeveloped off the map. It's within this precarious ecosystem that twelve-year-old Ale (Alejandro Polanco) must grow up fast, hustling in the neighborhood chop shops to build a more stable life for himself and his sister (Isamar Gonzales), even as their tenuous circumstances force each to compete with other struggling people and make desperate decisions. A deeply human story of a fierce but fragile sibling bond being tested by hardscrabble reality, Chop Shop tempers its sobering authenticity with flights of lyricism and hope"--Container
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