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Licensor Information
Independent Productions, Inc.
Directed by: Gregory Nava
Featuring: Ernesto Gómez Cruz, David Villalpando, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, Alicia del Lago, Miguel Gomez Giron, Jose Martin Ruano, Stella Quan, Eraclio Zepeda
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.”
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Technical Specifications
Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.78:1
Audio Options:
English PCM Mono 1.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Documentary, Short Film, Gallery, Theatrical Trailer, Booklet
- New audio commentary featuring Gregory Nava
- In the Service of the Shadows: The Making of “El Norte”: a new video program featuring interviews with Gregory Nava, producer and co-writer Anna Thomas, actors Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez and David Villalpando, and set designer David Wasco
- The Journal of Diego Rodriguez Silva, Nava’s 1972 award-winning student film
- Gallery of Chiapas location-scouting photographs
- Theatrical trailer
- A booklet featuring an essay by novelist Héctor Tobar and Roger Ebert’s 1983 review of the film
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Release Credits
Artwork: Eric Skillman
Producer: Abbey Lustgarten
Artwork: Alain Gauthier
Release Notes on Restoration
El Norte
El Norte is presented in the director’s preferred aspect ratio of 1.78:1. On standard 4:3 televisions, the image will appear letterboxed. On widescreen televisions, the image should fill the screen. Supervised and approved by director Gregory Nava, this new high-definition digital transfer was created on a Spirit 4K Datacine from a 35mm interpositive and the original camera negative. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, and warps were removed using Pixel Farm’s PFClean and the MTI Digital Restoration System.
The soundtrack was mastered at 24-bit from a 35mm magnetic soundtrack, and audio restoration tools were used to reduce clicks, pops, hiss, and crackle.
The soundtrack was mastered at 24-bit from a 35mm magnetic soundtrack, and audio restoration tools were used to reduce clicks, pops, hiss, and crackle.