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Apr 17, 2012 · And now this film will received its Blu-ray and DVD release courtesy of the Criterion Collection in April 2012. VIDEO: "¡Alambrista!" is presented in 1080p High Definition (1:66:1 aspect ratio). For a 1977 film that was shot in 16 mm, one thing that you can expect is a lot of grain and ""¡Alambrista!"
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In ¡Alambrista!, a Mexican farmworker sneaks across the border to California to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young’s take is equal parts ...
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In ¡Alambrista!, a Mexican farmworker sneaks across the border to California to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentim...
Criterion presents Robert M. Young’s ¡Alambrista!in the aspect ratio of 1.66:1 on this dual-layer disc in a new 1080p/24hz high-definition transfer. This is the 96-minute version of the film, put together by Young for an earlier DVD edition, and though it’s shorter than the original PBS broadcast (which ran 110-minutes) this is Young’s preferred cu...
The film’s lossless linear PCM 2.0 track is a bit frustrating. As I understand it Young redid the film’s music for the 1999 cut of the film, and I would also guess some of the sound effects were redone as well. These aspects of the presentation sound spectacular. The music is crisp and clear with fantastic range, and sound effects, like helicopters...
Criterion first includes a new audio commentaryby director Robert M. Young and coproducer Michael Hausman. It’s more of a reflective commentary than much else with the two recalling how the production came together, moments during the shoot, including some of the more difficult sequences, and the involvement of the government (it sounds as though t...
Not jam packed but it’s a solid Blu-ray release. Though it delivers a rough audio presentation its video transfer looks excellent and its supplements are all worth going through. It comes highly recommended. BUY AT:
Apr 30, 2012 · A low-budget humanist triumph for writer-director Robert M. Young, Alambrista! mines the unmoored lives of undocumented farmworkers in the fields of the mid-’70s American Southwest, a topic the heralded studio risk-taking of the era passed up. Young’s uncertain Mexican protagonist, Roberto Ramirez (Domingo Ambriz), whose surname we don’t ...
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Apr 17, 2012 · "Robert M. Young, who has made a cottage industry of ""small"" atmospheric films, made his directorial debut in 1977's Alambrista!. Domingo Ambriz plays a young Mexican man who crosses illegally into the U.S. The birth of an additional child convinces him that they need more than he can earn on...
Alambrista!: Directed by Robert M. Young. With Domingo Ambriz, Trinidad Silva, Linda Gillen, Ned Beatty. After the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man slips across the border into the United States.
