Chop Shop (2007) Blu-Ray Criterion Collection
on March 5th, 2021 at 14:00
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 is its own hermetically-sealed world of garages and body shops where twelve-year-old Alejandro busts his ass to scrape out a living among the mechanics (both legit and dubious ones) and the street hustlers. Little Ale gamely flags down drivers who havecruised into the area looking for cheap repairs, guiding them to the shop run by his boss Rob (Rob Sowulski, a real garage owner.) A perpetual motion machine, Ale skips up stairways, races across bridges, and squeezes his tiny body through windows in the relentless pursuit of an extra buck, selling bootleg DVDs, stolen hubcaps, or anything else he can scrounge.
Soon, Ale's teenage sister Isamar (Isamar Gonzalez) arrives from a safe house to live with him in a cramped room above Rob's garage. Without parents, an education, or any kind of social safety net to rely on, the siblings' life seems precarious, but Ale is confident he can surmount any obstacle. He assures Izzy there's nothing to worry about because: “I'm gonna work this shit out”...
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Cast: Alejandro Polanco, Isamar Gonzales, Rob Sowulski
Country: USA
Genre: Drama
BD50 | 1080p AVC | 01:24:32 | 43.6 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Extras:
• 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 (22:21)
• New conversation between Bahrani and writer and scholar Suketu Mehta on the immigrant experience in New York City and on film (26:46)
• Rehearsal footage from 2006 featuring Polanco and actors Isamar Gonzales and Carlos Zapata (Ale at the Shop - 20:25 / Ale and Izzy - 13:28)
• Trailer (2:42)
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