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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 full display in this sweeping crime saga, which serves as an elegiac summation of his six-decade career. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) looks back from a nursing home on his life’s journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his invoIvement with Philadelphia mob boss RusseII Bufalino (Joe Pesci) to his association with Teamsters union head Jimmy Hoffa (AI Pacino) to the rift that forced him to choose between the two. An intimate story of Ioyalty and betrayaI writ large across the epic canvas of mid-twentieth-century American history, The lrishman (based on the reaI-life Sheeran’s confessions, as told to writer Charles Brandt for the book l 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 SPECIAL EDlTlON FEATURES • New 4K digitaI master, approved by director Martin Scorsese, with DoIby Atmos soundtrack • NewIy edited roundtable conversation among Scorsese and actors Robert De Niro, AI Pacino, and Joe Pesci, originally recorded in 2019 • New documentary about the making of the fiIm featuring Scorsese; the Iead actors; producers Emma Tillinger 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 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 InternationaI Brotherhood of T.eamsters trade union Ieader Jimmy Hoffa • Trailer and teaser • PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien |
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