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The Delta Criterion Blu-ray presents the striking 1996 debut from director Ira Sachs, a raw and intimate portrait of race, class, and sexuality unfolding along the Mississippi River. With neorealist immediacy, the film begins as a seemingly simple love story: Lincoln (Shayne Gray), a closeted white teenager, meets Minh (Thang Chan), a Black Vietnamese immigrant, at a cruising spot in Memphis. What follows is a nighttime boat journey that drifts from tenderness into something far more unsettling.
 
As their connection deepens, imbalances of power and privilege surface, exposing emotional fault lines beneath the surface of desire. Ira Sachs crafts a devastating vision of wounded souls reaching for human connection in the dark, only to confront the limits of intimacy shaped by identity and circumstance.
 
Film Info
Country: United States
Year: 1996
Runtime: 84 minutes
Format: Color
Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
Language: English
Spine #: 1309
 
directed by: Ira Sachs
starring: Shayne Gray, Thang Chan
1996 / 84 min / English / 1.66:1

The Delta [Blu-ray] - Pre-Order 5/12

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  • DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURESS
    • new 2K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Ira Sachs, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
    • audio commentary from 2001 featuring Ira Sachs
    • new interview with Ira Sachs, conducted by film critic Keith Uhlich
    • two short films by Ira Sachs: Vaudeville (1991) and Lady (1993)
    • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
    • booklet featuring an essay by author and film curator Michael Koresky

     

    Cover art
    • new cover by Juan Miguel Marin

     

    Additional details
    Label: The Criterion Collection
    Edition: director-approved Blu-ray special edition
    Region: Blu-ray region A
    Audio: English monaural

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