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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: Blu-ray
EAN: 0715515035125
Format: Color, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Criterion Collection
Manufacturer: Criterion Collection
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Criterion Collection
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Running Time: 122 minutes
Sales Rank: 3892
Studio: Criterion Collection
Theatrical Release Date: 1983
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Product Description:
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life. It s a story that happens every day, but until Gregory Nava's groundbreaking El Norte (The North), the personal travails of immigrants crossing the border to America had never been shown in the movies with such urgent humanism. A work of social realism imbued with dreamlike imagery, El Norte is a lovingly rendered, heartbreaking story of hope and survival, which critic Roger Ebert called a Grapes of Wrath for our time.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
New, restored high-definition digital transfer supervised and approved by director Gregory Nava
New audio commentary featuring Nava
In the Service of the Shadows: The Making of El Norte: a new video program featuring interviews with Nava, producer and cowriter Anna Thomas, actors Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez and David Villalpando, and set designer David Wasco
Wall of Silence, a new short documentary by Nava and Barbara Martinez Jitner, concerning the building of the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border
The Journal of Diego Rodriguez Silva, the 1972 award-winning student film by Nava
Gallery of Chipas location-scouting photographs
Theatrical trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by novelist Héctor Tobar and Roger Ebert's 1983 review of the film
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Woah!
I've had the privilege of seeing this film on VHS, DVD, and also once in 35mm in theaters. For a very long while, I was convinced that some of the older movies were fairly useless on blu-ray, and this film will show many of those nay-sayers wrong. this film was beautifully shot back then, and will transfer well in the first of C. collection onto blu-ray. This film hasn't aged particularly well, but it is still a vibrant and beautiful piece of film history, and deserves a watch. I'm very glad ... Read More
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