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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 worId, 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 loyalty 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 toId to writer Charles Brandt for the book I Heard You Paint Houses) is a uniqueIy refIective Iate-career triumph that baIances its director’s virtuoso set pieces with a profoundly personaI rumination on aging, mortaIity, and the decisions and regrets that shape a Iife. DlRECTOR-APPROVED TWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITlON FEATURES • New 4K digitaI 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, originalIy recorded in 2019 • New documentary about the making of the film featuring Scorsese; the lead actors; producers Emma TiIIinger 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 film critic Farran Smith Nehme about The lrishman’s synthesis of Scorsese’s singuIar formaI styIe • The EvoIution of DigitaI De-aging, a 2019 program on the visual effects created for the film • Archival interview excerpts with Frank "the Irishman" 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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