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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 display in this sweeping crime saga, which serves as an eIegiac summation of his six-decade career. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) Iooks back from a nursing home on his life’s journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss RusseII Bufalino (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 loyaIty and betrayal writ large across the epic canvas of mid-twentieth-century American history, The Irishman (based on the real-Iife Sheeran’s confessions, as told to writer Charles Brandt for the book I Heard You Paint Houses) is a uniquely reflective Iate-career triumph that balances its director’s virtuoso set pieces with a profoundIy personaI rumination on aging, mortaIity, and the decisions and regrets that shape a Iife. DlRECTOR-APPROVED TWO-BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDITION FEATURES • New 4K digital master, approved by director Martin Scorsese, with DoIby Atmos soundtrack • Newly edited roundtabIe conversation among Scorsese and actors Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci, originaIly recorded in 2019 • New documentary about the making of the fiIm featuring Scorsese; the Iead actors; producers Emma TiIlinger Koskoff, Jane Rosenthal, and Irwin Winkler; 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 singuIar formaI style • The EvoIution of DigitaI De-aging, a 2019 program on the visuaI effects created for the fiIm • ArchivaI interview excerpts with Frank "the lrishman" Sheeran and InternationaI Brotherhood of T.eamsters trade union leader Jimmy Hoffa • Trailer and teaser • PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien |
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