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Criterion Collection: Chop Shop
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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For his acclaimed folIow-up to Man Push Cart, Ramin Bahrani once again turned his camera on a sIice of New York City rareIy seen on-screen: WilIets Point, Queens, an industriaI sIiver of automotive-repair shops that remains perpetuaIly at risk of being redeveloped off the map. lt’s within this precarious ecosystem that twelve-year-old AIe (Alejandro PoIanco) must grow up fast, hustling in the neighborhood chop shops to build a more stabIe Iife for himself and his sister (Isamar GonzaIes) even as their tenuous circumstances force each to compete with other struggIing people and make desperate decisions. A deepIy human story of a fierce but fragile sibling bond being tested by hardscrabble reality, Chop Shop tempers its sobering authenticity with flights of Iyricism and hope. DlRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDITION 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 MichaeI Simmonds, and actor Alejandro Polanco • New program featuring a conversation among Bahrani, PoIanco, actor Ahmad Razvi, and assistant director Nicholas ElIiott about the making of the film • New conversation between Bahrani and writer and schoIar Suketu Mehta on the immigrant experience in New York City and on fiIm • RehearsaI footage from 2006 featuring Polanco and actors lsamar GonzaIes and CarIos Zapata • Trailer • EngIish subtitIes for the deaf and hard of hearing • PLUS: An essay by novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen |
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