The Irishman [CRITERION COLLECTION] (DVD) [2020]

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Though not all that long I will say it does a decent job getting into how the technology works (starting with these special cameras that also get mentioned a lot in the previous two supplements) and then how they had to properly capture a variety of expressions from the actors to make sure they could replicate their performances as exact as they could. The result is a more sedate, but no less gripping account of the machinations, codes, loyalties, and power struggles that define the mob and its tangled relationship with both the Teamsters Union and its corrupt, cocky, blustery leader, Jimmy Hoffa. A nice touch, though, is the addition of archival footage featuring Frank Sheeran and Jimmy Hoffa and apparently used as references for the film.

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The ultimate tragedy of The Irishman is that Sheeran is incapable of singing his song of self with the kind of unblinking honesty that might lead him through regret and toward redemption. In The Irishman, which spans the mid-1940s to the early aughts, Sheeran is effectively chatting with the audience about his rise from a low-level hood to the right-hand man to labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino), who he also claims to have killed in 1975. The picture is generally clean and nothing severe really sticks out, yet there are a handful of sequenceslook a little noisy, notably in darker areas.Featurette: "The Evolution of Digital De-Aging as Seen in The Irishman"(HD, 13 minutes) - This promotional Netflix piece examines the revolutionary and controversial de-aging process that's such a major part of The Irishman. All the dialogue is clear, well prioritized, and easy to understand, even when mumbled, and no surface noise creeps into the mix. track, but this Criterion edition ups the ante a bit by including the film's original Dolby Atmos track, which, according to the liner notes, was remastered from the digital master audio files. De Niro, Pacino, Pesci are everything you want them to be and more in their performances; the writing, pacing, and editing are tight; the humor is dark, fast, and intelligent; and the story unravels beautifully . Style abounds (it wouldn't be a Scorsese picture without it), but the largely understated presentation reflects the attitude of a confident, serene craftsman who no longer feels compelled to flex his creative muscles to gain attention and win elusive Oscars.

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In reality, Sheeran told his life story to author and former investigator Charles Brandt for the 2004 memoir I Heard You Paint Houses, which is the basis for the film’s screenplay by Steven Zaillian. More so than Goodfellas or Casino, Scorsese’s two other told-in-retrospect gangster films, The Irishman—at least for the first two hours of its riveting three-and-a-half-hour runtime—feels composed of burnished, often blackly funny, fragments of erratic memory. ROBERT DE NIRO) looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino (Goodfellas' JOE PESCI) to his association with Teamsters union head Jimmy Hoffa (The Godfather's AL PACINO) to the rift that forced him to choose between the two.Sheeran’s footage (running 6-minutes) comes from recordings author Charles Brandt made for his novel, “I Heard You Paint Houses. Set against the backdrop of the industrial Mid-Atlantic during some of the country's most turbulent political and social events, The Irishman is 2019's first perfect film - one that is so good, it doesn't even feel like it belongs in this decade, but rather feels like a masterpiece unearthed from decades earlier. Anatomy of a Scene"(HD, 5 minutes) - Scorsese comments about the structure, elements, tone, and subtext of a pivotal sequence in The Irishman for this installment of a popular feature that regularly appears in the The New York Times. Much like running a marathon, watching the film is an endurance test, but if you can make it to the finish line, The Irishmanbreeds not only immense satisfaction, but also a deep appreciation for the artistry on display and boundless admiration for the man who so brilliantly conceived and executed this ambitious and frequently fascinating movie. Scorsese is no stranger to chaste, if still devout, love stories between men, and when Hoffa exits the film, Sheeran becomes like Orpheus minus Eurydice, mourning his beloved and yearning for the inevitable—though, of course, he’d never admit that his feelings were anything beyond strictly professional.

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set-up (meaning I am missing the two rear Atmos speakers and 2 extra surround speakers) but even then I was impressed with the mix here. Near the end of the film, Sheeran asks that his door be left slightly ajar, a mirror of something that occurs in an earlier scene between him and Hoffa. Excellent supporting turns from Harvey Keitel (appearing in his first Scorsese film since 1988's The Last Temptation of Christ), Ray Romano, Bobby Cannavale, Paquin (who's mute for most of the film), Stephen Graham, and Stephanie Kurtzuba, among many others, lend the movie additional snap, crackle, and pop. It’s said, for instance, that Scorsese wanted the film to “look like nothing,” a mysterious request that hints at The Irishman’s deceptively austere compositions. He became a hitman for the Italian-American Bufalino crime family and the only Irishman to be accepted in the Bufalino's higher echelon of trusted family members.No one depicts the violent, vicious, and labyrinthian world of organized crime with more precision and gusto than Martin Scorsese. The footage of Hoffa comes from 17-minutes’ worth of material from an episode of NBC’s David Brinkley’s Journal that focused on Hoffa.