Martin Scorsese

The Irishman

The Irishman

Martin Scorsese’s cinematic mastery is on full display in this sweeping crime saga, which serves as an elegiac summation of his six-decade career. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran (Robert DeNiro) 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 (Joe Pesci) to his association with Teamsters union head Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino) to the rift that forced him to choose between the two. An intimate story of loyalty and betrayal writ large across the epic canvas of mid-twentieth-century American history, The Irishman (based on the real-life Sheeran’s confessions, as told to writer Charles Brandt for the book I Heard You Paint Houses) is a uniquely reflective late-career triumph that balances its director’s virtuoso set pieces with a profoundly personal rumination on aging, mortality, and the decisions and regrets that shape a life.

Film Info

  • United States
  • 2019
  • 209 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.85:1
  • English
  • Spine #1058

Director-Approved Two-Blu-ray Special Edition Features

  • New 4K digital master, approved by director Martin Scorsese, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack
  • Newly edited roundtable conversation among Scorsese and actors Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci, originally recorded in 2019
  • Making “The Irishman,” a new program featuring Scorsese; the lead actors; producers Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Jane Rosenthal, and Irwin Winkler; director of photography Rodrigo Prieto; and others from the cast and crew
  • Gangster’s Requiem, a new video essay by film critic Farran Smith Nehme about The Irishman’s synthesis of Scorsese’s singular formal style
  • Anatomy of a Scene: “The Irishman,” a 2020 program featuring Scorsese’s analysis of the Frank Sheeran Appreciation Night scene from the film
  • The Evolution of Digital De-aging, a 2019 program on the visual effects created for the film
  • Excerpted interviews with Frank “the Irishman” Sheeran and Teamsters trade-union leader Jimmy Hoffa from 1999 and 1963
  • Trailer and teaser
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien

New cover by Gregory Manchess

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Director-Approved Two-Blu-ray Special Edition Features

  • New 4K digital master, approved by director Martin Scorsese, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack
  • Newly edited roundtable conversation among Scorsese and actors Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci, originally recorded in 2019
  • Making “The Irishman,” a new program featuring Scorsese; the lead actors; producers Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Jane Rosenthal, and Irwin Winkler; director of photography Rodrigo Prieto; and others from the cast and crew
  • Gangster’s Requiem, a new video essay by film critic Farran Smith Nehme about The Irishman’s synthesis of Scorsese’s singular formal style
  • Anatomy of a Scene: “The Irishman,” a 2020 program featuring Scorsese’s analysis of the Frank Sheeran Appreciation Night scene from the film
  • The Evolution of Digital De-aging, a 2019 program on the visual effects created for the film
  • Excerpted interviews with Frank “the Irishman” Sheeran and Teamsters trade-union leader Jimmy Hoffa from 1999 and 1963
  • Trailer and teaser
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien

New cover by Gregory Manchess

The Irishman
Cast
Robert De Niro
Frank Sheeran
Al Pacino
Jimmy Hoffa
Joe Pesci
Russell Bufalino
Harvey Keitel
Angelo Bruno
Ray Romano
Bill Bufalino
Bobby Cannavale
Skinny Razor
Anna Paquin
Older Peggy Sheeran
Stephen Graham
Anthony “Tony Pro” Provenzano
Stephanie Kurtzuba
Irene Sheeran
Jack Huston
Robert Kennedy
Kathrine Narducci
Carrie Bufalino
Jesse Plemons
Chuckie O’Brien
Domenick Lombardozzi
Fat Tony Salerno
Paul Herman
Whispers DiTullio
Gary Basaraba
Frank “Fitz” Fitzsimmons
Marin Ireland
Older Dolores Sheeran
Lucy Gallina
Young Peggy Sheeran
Jonathan Morris
Assisted-living priest
Dascha Polanco
Nurse
Welker White
Josephine “Jo” Hoffa
Louis Cancelmi
Sally Bugs
Bo Dietl
Joey Glimco
Sebastian Maniscalco
Crazy Joe Gallo
Aleksa Palladino
Mary Sheeran
Steven Van Zandt
Jerry Vale
Jim Norton
Don Rickles
Credits
Director
Martin Scorsese
Screenplay by
Steven Zaillian
Based upon the book by
Charles Brandt
Produced by
Martin Scorsese
Produced by
Robert De Niro
Produced by
Jane Rosenthal
Produced by
Emma Tillinger Koskoff
Produced by
Irwin Winkler
Produced by
Gerald Chamale
Produced by
Gaston Pavlovich
Produced by
Randall Emmett
Produced by
Gabriele Israilovici
Executive producer
Rick Yorn
Executive producer
Richard Baratta
Executive producer
Berry Welsh
Executive producer
Niels Juul
Executive producer
George Furla
Executive producer
Nicholas Pileggi
Executive producer
Jai Stefan
Executive producer
Tyler Zacharia
Executive producer
Chad A. Verdi
Director of photography
Rodrigo Prieto
Production designer
Bob Shaw
Edited by
Thelma Schoonmaker
Costumes designed by
Sandy Powell
Costumes designed by
Christopher Peterson
Original score by
Robbie Robertson
Music supervisor
Randall Poster
Visual-effects supervisor
Pablo Helman
Coproducer
Marianne Bower
Coproducer
David Webb
Casting by
Ellen Lewis
Visual effects and animation by
Industrial Light & Magic
Supervising art director
Laura Ballinger Gardner
Sound mixer
Tod A. Maitland
Script supervisor
Jessica Lichtner
Makeup department head
Nicki Ledermann
Hair department head
Sean Flanigan
Stills photographer
Niko Tavernise

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