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The delta / a film by Ira Sachs.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Chan, Thang, actor.
Gray, Shayne, actor.
Huss, Rachel Zan, actor.
Sachs, Ira, film director.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
African American teenagers--Tennessee--Memphis--Drama.
African American teenagers.
Gay teenagers--Tennessee--Memphis--Drama.
Gay teenagers.
Jewish gay people--Tennessee--Memphis--Drama.
Jewish gay people.
Jewish teenagers--Tennessee--Memphis--Drama.
Jewish teenagers.
Vietnamese Americans--Tennessee--Memphis--Drama.
Vietnamese Americans.
Delta (Miss. : Region)--Drama.
Delta (Miss. : Region).
Genre:
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Queer films.
Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
4 3/4 in.
polychrome
Edition:
Criterion collection.
Place of Publication:
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2026]
Language Note:
English dialogue; English SDH.
System Details:
Blu-ray, wide screen; requires Blu-ray player.
digital
optical
surround
DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
video file
Blu-ray
Summary:
The complexities of race, class, and sexuality collide within a Memphis community in the strikingly raw debut feature from director Ira Sachs. With neorealist immediacy, The Delta tells what at first appears to be a simple love story: two young men Lincoln, a closeted white teenager, and Minh, a Black Vietnamese immigrant meet at a cruising spot and embark on a nighttime journey by boat down the Mississippi River. But soon, imbalances of power and privilege emerge between them, as the film develops into a devastating vision of lost, wounded souls reaching out in the dark for human connection.
Participant:
Shayne Gray, Thang Chan, Rachel Zan Huss.
Notes:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1996.
Special features: Audio commentary from 2001; new interview with Sachs, conducted by Keith Uhlich; Two short films by Sachs, Vaudeville (1991) and Lady (1993).
Title from web page.
Wide screen (1.66:1).
ISBN:
9798886074222
OCLC:
1579639030
Publisher Number:
715515333719
19459453 Midwest Tape
CC3809BD The Criterion Collection

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