Chop Shop
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2021],c2021
Format: DVD
Edition: Director-approved DVD special edition.
Description: 1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 47 x 33 cm folded to 12 x 19 cm)
"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
Series: Criterion collection ; 1067.
Other Authors:
Muskat, Lisa, film producer.
Turtletaub, Marc, film producer.
Brody, Jeb, film producer.
Bahrani, Ramin, film director, screenwriter, editor of moving image work.
Azimi, Bahareh, screenwriter.
Polanco, Alejandro, actor.
Gonzales, Isamar, actor.
Sowulski, Rob, actor.
Zapata, Carlos, actor.
Razvi, Ahmad, actor.
Simmonds, Michael, director of photography.
Big Beach (Firm), production company.
Muskat Filmed Properties, production company.
Noruz Films (Firm), production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Muskat, Lisa, film producer.
Turtletaub, Marc, film producer.
Brody, Jeb, film producer.
Bahrani, Ramin, film director, screenwriter, editor of moving image work.
Azimi, Bahareh, screenwriter.
Polanco, Alejandro, actor.
Gonzales, Isamar, actor.
Sowulski, Rob, actor.
Zapata, Carlos, actor.
Razvi, Ahmad, actor.
Simmonds, Michael, director of photography.
Big Beach (Firm), production company.
Muskat Filmed Properties, production company.
Noruz Films (Firm), production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Subjects:
Street children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Orphans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Brothers and sisters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Automobile graveyards -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Street children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Orphans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Brothers and sisters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Automobile graveyards -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Target Audience: Rating: Not rated.
ISBN:
9781681438061
UPC: 715515255615
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
DVD DRAMA Chop | Main (Downtown) | First Level, DVD | In |
DVD DRAMA Chop | Northeast Indoors | DVD | In |
More Formats
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; 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.
Director of photography, Michael Simmonds; ; music, M. Lo.
Isamar Gonzales, Alejandro Polanco, Rob Sowulski, Carlos Zapata, Ahmad Razvi, Anthony Felton.
DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.78:1 aspect ratio); 5.1 Dolby Digital.
In English, with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Wide screen (1.78:1).
Features: High-definition digital master, supervised and approved by director Ramin Bahrani; 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.
Director of photography, Michael Simmonds; ; music, M. Lo.
Isamar Gonzales, Alejandro Polanco, Rob Sowulski, Carlos Zapata, Ahmad Razvi, Anthony Felton.
DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.78:1 aspect ratio); 5.1 Dolby Digital.
In English, with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).