DVD
Chop shop
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (CEN)
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Alejandro Polanco, Isamar Gonzales, Rob Sowulski, Carlos Zapata, Ahmad Razvi.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2021]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (84 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Uniform Title
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 must grow up fast, hustling in the neighborhood chop shops to build a more stable life for himself and his sister 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.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 2007.
Special features: High-definition digtial 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.