DVD
Man push cart
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (CEN)
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Ahmad Razvi, Leticia Dolera, Charles Daniel Sandoval, Ali Reza.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2021]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (87 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
A modest miracle of twenty-first-century neorealism, the acclaimed debut feature by Ramin Bahrani speaks quietly but profoundly to the experiences of those living on the margins of the American dream. Back in his home country of Pakistan, Ahmad was a famous rock star. Now a widower separated from his son and adrift in New York, he works long hours selling coffee and bagels from a midtown Manhattan food cart, engaged in a Sisyphean search for human connection and a sense of purpose that seems perpetually just out of reach. A rare immigrant's-eye view of a post-9/11 city suffused with subtle paranoia and xenophobia, Man Push Cart gives at once empathetic and clear-eyed expression to the everyday drama of human endurance.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 2005.
Special features: High-definition digtial master, supervised and approved by director Ramin Bahrani ; audio commentary from 2005 featuring Bahrani, director of photography Michael Simmonds, assistant director Nicholas Elliott, and actor Ahmad Razvi ; new conversation among Bahrani, Elliott and Razvi on the making of the film ; new conversation between Bahrani and scholar Hamid Dabashi on the origins of the film and Bahrani's cinematic influences ; Backgammon, a 1998 short film by Bahrani ; trailer.