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A rare immigrant’s-eye view of a post-9/11 city suffused with subtle paranoia and xenophobia, MAN PUSH CART gives at once empathetic and clear-eyed expression to the everyday drama of human endurance.
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A modest miracle of twenty-first-century neorealism, the acclaimed debut feature by Ramin Bahrani speaks quietly but profoundly to the experiences of those living on the margins of the American dream. Back in his home country of Pakistan, Ahmad (Ahmad Razvi, elements of whose own life story were woven into the script) was a famous rock star. Now a ...
Ramin Bahrani’s debut feature Man Push Cartreceives a new Blu-ray edition from The Criterion Collection, presenting the film on a dual-layer disc in its original aspect ratio of 1.78:1 with a 1080p/24hz high-definition encode. The film was completed through a fully digital workflow. Since the film was shot in high-definition digital the final prese...
The film comes with a 5.1 surround soundtrack (made for this edition), delivered in DTS-HD Master Audio. It’s a subtle film but it does use the surround environment to decent effect. Most of the audio is pushed to the front center speaker, but some of the music and some of the street noises expand to the rears. Overall clarity is solid, some indoor...
The film was previously released on DVD by Koch Lorber and Criterion has, at the very least, ported over the audio commentaryrecorded for that edition. Featuring Bahrani, director of photography Michael Simmonds, assistant director Nicholas Elliott, and actor Ahmad Razvi, the four explain the lengthy history and numerous difficulties behind getting...
Criterion’s special edition provides great material around the film’s production and an excellent high-def presentation for the film itself. BUY AT:
Play trailer Man Push Cart Released Sep 8, 2006 1h 26m Drama Play Trailer Watchlist Watchlist Tomatometer Popcornmeter 89% Tomatometer 55 Reviews 66% Popcornmeter 2,500+ Ratings
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Feb 24, 2021 · The events of 9/11 are never mentioned in Man Push Cart, aside from a brief evocation when one of Ahmad’s friends displays a scar he got from being stabbed in an anti-Muslim hate crime (the actor, by the way, really was stabbed in a hate crime, and the scar is real), but the dull, persistent tension in the air throughout the film would have certainly resonated with American audiences in 2005.
Aug 5, 2019 · Iranian-American Ramin Bahrani’s (“Chop Shop”/”Strangers”) bleak, subdued and compassionate urban drama, offers a slight plot but a rich character study of the polite Ahmad (Ahmad Razvi, a non-professional actor who once worked as a push cart operator), a twentysomething English speaking former rock star from Lahore now in NYC, who gets up in the dark every day at 3 AM and picks up ...
Man Push Cart. Directed by Ramin Bahrani • 2005 • United States. Starring Ahmad Razvi, Leticia Dolera, Charles Daniel Sandoval. A modest miracle of twenty-first-century neorealism, the acclaimed debut feature by Ramin Bahrani speaks quietly but profoundly to the experiences of those living on the margins of the American dream. Back in his ...
Details: 2005, Rest of the world, USA, Cert 15, 87 mins Direction: Ramin Bahrani Genre: Drama Summary: A Pakistani immigrant in New York sells coffee and doughnuts from his cart, struggling to ...
