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Chop shop [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Ramin Bahrani.

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Criterion Collection, 2021.

Street children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Orphans -- Drama.

New York (N.Y.) -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 1067.

9781681438061 (2021 Criterion Collection ed.)

9781417201730 (2008 Koch Lorber Films ed.)

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (84 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2007.

Criterion Collection Director-Approved DVD special edition features: High-definition digital 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 and actors Isamar Gonzales and Carlos Zapata ; Trailer ; PLUS: An essay by novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Some copies are 2008 Koch Lorber Films editions. See holdings for Criterion Collection copies.

English SDH (subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing).

A Big Beach production in association with Muskat Filmed Properties & Noruz Films ; A film by Ramin Bahrani ; Producers, Lisa Muskat, Marc Turtletaub, Jeb Brody ; Writers, Bahareh Azimi & Ramin Bahrani ; Director, Ramin Bahrani.

Alejandro Polanco and Isamar Gonzales.

"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 (Alejandro Polanco) must grow up fast, hustling in the neighborhood chop shops to build a more stable life for himself and his sister (Isamar Gonzales) 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."--Container (Criterion Collection).

Coming-of-age films.

Urban drama (Films)

Melodrama and tearjerker films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Bahrani, Ramin.

Polanco, Alejandro.

Gonzales, Isamar.

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