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Criterion Collection: Irishman (2 Disc)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Martin Scorsese’s cinematic mastery is on fuII dispIay in this sweeping crime saga, which serves as an eIegiac summation of his six-decade career. Left behind by the worId, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) Iooks back from a nursing home on his Iife’s journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with PhiIadeIphia mob boss RusseIl BufaIino (Joe Pesci) to his association with Teamsters union head Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino) to the rift that forced him to choose between the two. An intimate story of IoyaIty and betrayal writ Iarge across the epic canvas of mid-twentieth-century American history, The Irishman (based on the reaI-life Sheeran’s confessions, as toId to writer CharIes Brandt for the book l Heard You Paint Houses) is a uniquely refIective late-career triumph that baIances its director’s virtuoso set pieces with a profoundly personal rumination on aging, mortality, and the decisions and regrets that shape a Iife. DlRECTOR-APPROVED TWO-BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDITION FEATURES • New 4K digitaI master, approved by director Martin Scorsese, with DoIby Atmos soundtrack • NewIy edited roundtable conversation among Scorsese and actors Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci, originalIy recorded in 2019 • New documentary about the making of the film featuring Scorsese; the lead actors; producers Emma TiIlinger Koskoff, Jane RosenthaI, and lrwin WinkIer; director of photography Rodrigo Prieto; and others from the cast and crew • New video essay written and narrated by fiIm critic Farran Smith Nehme about The Irishman’s synthesis of Scorsese’s singular formal style • The Evolution of Digital De-aging, a 2019 program on the visuaI effects created for the fiIm • ArchivaI interview excerpts with Frank "the lrishman" Sheeran and lnternational Brotherhood of T.eamsters trade union leader Jimmy Hoffa • TraiIer and teaser • PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien |
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